Tourism Group's Acronym Backfires

[The Straight Story]

Tourism Group's Acronym Backfires

MADISON, WI (AP) -- A Wisconsin tourism lobbying group is changing its name after realizing its initials formed a crude acronym.

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation group did a quiet rebranding in July, changing its name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin and updating its logo from WTF to TFW after it was featured on Web sites and blogs poking fun at it. It had no way of knowing 30 years ago that the letters would go on to take on a crude association.

Lead lobbyist for the group, Chet Gerlach, said Wednesday that the federation made the change after the meaning of the common text message lingo was brought to their attention.

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WTF? :rofl:

[virgogal]

1. I love it. I read a mystery series(name escapes me),where they

set up a Special Homicide Invetigative Team---you can figure that one out.

[Mugu]

2. I remember reading years ago about a state that have a run of licence plates

starting with the letters DUI. Those plates were not well received.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Every state has a list of 'forbidden' letters: e.g., SUX, DIK, PUS, FUK, etc.

Ooooh, that felt nasty!

[Matariki]

4. The fuck? What?

:+

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Well, Georgia does. I had a list a long time ago.

There are certain combos they won't assign due to their 'naughty' nature. Baptists think a lot of things are naughty.