Virginia is for Thugs
The Virginia Tourism Corporation is scrambling to adjust their new campaign, Live Passionately, a sub-message to the "Virginia is for Lovers" slogan, which has been in use since 1969.Seems the heart symbol made by models in many of the ads is also the symbol favored by the notorious Gangster Disciples, a Chicago based gang.
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Labels: gangsters, tourism, Virginia tourism
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7 Comments:
I can't believe they changed it... oh wait, yes I can.
I like the "no-cost" bit. Yeah right.
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Thinking In Vain, at August 20, 2007 at 2:54 PM
By showing three women, admittedly one is 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' crazy...Is Virginia catering to the much ignored Dykes of Hazzard?
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New York Punk, at August 20, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Lesbian Lovers, arm in arm at the vineyard, watching the kooky chick stomp grapes while showing her affinity for Gangster Disciples. My kinda place.
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RFB, at August 20, 2007 at 4:30 PM
This is very funny. You know that the poor agency in Virginia had no clue. And that 99.9999% of the people who see the ad are thinking "cheesy hand gesture" and not "scary gang symbol."
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Alan Wolk, at August 20, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Exactly, Toad. How did this get discovered? Likely either a cop or a gangster alerted the VA Tourism board.
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RFB, at August 20, 2007 at 8:21 PM
the ad makes me want to shoot someone—and i'm not even in a gang.
By
HighJive, at August 20, 2007 at 8:44 PM
plus, wait till they find out that stomping on grapes is a gang initiation rite immediately followed by stomping on a rival's head.
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HighJive, at August 20, 2007 at 8:46 PM
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