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WTF? Why would you change? People definitely would remember that one. I liked the father's line on Modern Family last week. He said WTF stands for "why the face".
Posted by: Doug | September 30, 2009 at 10:55 AM
BBQ?
Posted by: Siouxie | September 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM
I wonder if padraig had something to do with this.
Posted by: nursecindy | September 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Oh well, you know TFW!
(Those Funny Wisconsonites)
Posted by: Brian | September 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
What a lost opportunity. They could have made a fortune selling t-shirts with the logo. And, their annual picnic could have been the WTFBBQ. What a shame.
Charlie Pierce will be so disappointed.
Posted by: Lairbo | September 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
I was once associated with a corporate matter wherein a lawyer had annotated a client's memo with "We need a CYA memo to go with this". This annotated memo was part of a stack of evidence in a lawsuit, and the judge reviewing this annotated memo asked (with a smirk) if the lawyer involved would clarify for the record what he meant by "a CYA memo".
The lawyer, straight faced, said it was a "Call Your Attention" memo.
The judge, with a scoffing snork-y sound, then wrote "WTF?" on the evidence copy and handed it to the court clerk, but not without allowing the lawyer to see it. The lawyer, smirking, asked the judge to clarify his WTF notation. The judge responded "What's This For?".
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Oh, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation.)
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | September 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM
I remember driving into Wisconsin back in 1979 thinking it was amusing. These logos were at rest area and information center signs, among others.
Of course, the environmental lab where I "work" has to deal with its own. Watershed-based plans combine river data and capacities to assess pollutant parameters. I swear some dufus called it the Combined River Assessment Plan, and it was thereafter gleefully acronym-ized as CRAP.
Posted by: Allen at Division | September 30, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Lairbo, that would have been GREAT. I now have to create a company and name it WTF. :D
Posted by: Diva | September 30, 2009 at 12:33 PM
They missed an internet savvy workaround:
Federation of Tourism in Wisconson or FTW.
(For The Win)
Posted by: Will | September 30, 2009 at 01:11 PM
I think it's what you say AFTER you've seen Wisconsin--WTF?!
Posted by: eve | September 30, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Must be one heck of a tourist board, us locals have never even heard of it. If I had I'd probably have bought a bunch of their t-shirts. We love us our acronyms up here, like FIB, GBTI, and TBSS, right Diva?
Posted by: padraig the cheesehead | September 30, 2009 at 03:43 PM
I guess this will give the Kyrgzstan Motoring Association some food for thought.
Posted by: Clankazoid | September 30, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Our N.C. tourist board's main goal is to convince people we don't all talk like Gomer Pyle. It's acronym is GAG. Go Away Gomer.
Posted by: nursecindy | September 30, 2009 at 04:40 PM
The side linked article is priceless. On the effect of turning OGC on it's side:
"..and it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo-to-red-faces.html
Posted by: Will | September 30, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Someone down here in the South of Texas (I refuse to concede that only France has a "South of") tried to organize the "Texas Women's Angler Tournament".
A-hem. It was changed to the Texas Ladies Angler Tournament.
Posted by: bonmot | September 30, 2009 at 05:49 PM
There were only two things cool about Wisconsin. One was the weather and now they've changed the other.
Posted by: Steve | September 30, 2009 at 08:19 PM
The University of North Texas has a radio station. It's call letters are KNTU. That seems strange because the school is NOT named North Texas University. The "U" seems out of place in the call letters.
Posted by: Flying Manatee | September 30, 2009 at 09:57 PM
Manatee, I was down there in the late '80's when they changed the name from "North Texas State University" to "University of North Texas." My roommate made the same observation: "They'd better be careful what they name the radio station..." It only took me 1/2 second before I started cracking up!!!
Posted by: frodolives | September 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM
"I think it's what you say AFTER you've seen Wisconsin--WTF?!"
Hey! I live in Wisconsin, and I find your comment.... well... pretty accurate....
Posted by: Will | October 01, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Hey Bonmot, I heard that Sam Houston Institute of Technology changed its name to Rice. Is that true?
Posted by: ken in sc | October 01, 2009 at 11:46 AM
HA HA HA!
Posted by: phelps101893 | October 01, 2009 at 04:24 PM
When a new electric trolley line neared completion here in Seattle, word got out that it was going to be called the South Lake Union Trolley. The much-hated Mayor got up and said that was never the name, someone had made it up, and it was changed pronto. But we still howl about it...
Posted by: LisaP | October 01, 2009 at 04:24 PM
I"m all kinds of LTTP, and nobody will ever read this, but WTF (heh), I'll post it anyway:
Manatee, I was down there in the late '80's when they changed the name from "North Texas State University" to "University of North Texas." My roommate made the same observation: "They'd better be careful what they name the radio station..." It only took me 1/2 second before I started cracking up!!!
frodo, we must have been in school together, because I attended UNT at the time of the school's name change and did the morning show for a number of years. I can't tell you how tired we KNTU staffers got of people asking us if the station's name was going to change (and even more odd was the fact that everyone who cracked that joke seemed to think that they were the first person to figure that out).
BTW, KNTU turns 40 years old a week from today!
Posted by: Kev | October 24, 2009 at 06:19 PM