Not Anymore, Since Wolt Left...

[tepista]

http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/state_regi ... aign/5858/


The low-level South Carolina state employee who approved a controversial ad campaign aimed at gay tourists has resigned, according to state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism director Chad Prosser. Posters in London subways say, “South Carolina is so gay. Explore an America most never see. From plantations to the Civil War. Golf to gay beaches.” Similar posters proclaim Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. as being “so gay”. The campaign is sponsored by Amro Worldwide, a company that specializes in “gay travel”, and is aimed at people who are in London for gay pride events.

But state tourism officials never approved the state’s participation in the ad campaign. Prosser says the agency’s independent contractor in the United Kingdom presented a proposal to a lower-level PRT employee, and that employee approved it as part of a larger package of tour-operator participations. As soon as Prosser and higher-level PRT officials found out exactly what the program was, they contacted their UK representative and said the state would not participate and no state money would go to the program. It would have cost state taxpayers almost $5,000.

“Our tourism marketing funds are for the purpose of bringing visitors to South Carolina, not for getting involved in various social agendas,” Prosser told News Channel 7. He says the lower-level employee resigned, and the agency is taking steps to make sure nothing similar happens again.

Palmetto Family Council president and CEO Dr. Oran Smith says, “South Carolinians don’t care for their tax money to be invested in ways that they don’t think is consistent with their values and I think promoting gay tourism is inconsistent with South Carolina values.” He says it also doesn’t make financial sense to invest in something that doesn’t match the state’s target audience, which is families.

Amro Worldwide says the “so gay” campaign is to reverse the negative connotation of the phrase and to turn it into something positive.

[Dr. Medulla]

South Carolina is so gay.

[Wolter]

South Carolina is so gay.

You said it SAILOR!

[Dr. Medulla]

I think I've mentioned that this classmate of mine in Greensboro, from Summerfield, said that to gay men in Charleston, it's a real notch on the bedpost to nail a Citadel student.

[Wolter]

I think I've mentioned that this classmate of mine in Greensboro, from Summerfield, said that to gay men in Charleston, it's a real notch on the bedpost to nail a Citadel student.

I knew that. And that used to crack me up. Fucking Knobs.

[JennyB]

I think I've mentioned that this classmate of mine in Greensboro, from Summerfield, said that to gay men in Charleston, it's a real notch on the bedpost to nail a Citadel student.

In the immortal words of the sage Paris Hilton...That's hot.

[eumaas]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

[Wolter]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

Pastel buildings.

[Dr. Medulla]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

Pastel buildings.

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

[Wolter]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

Pastel buildings.

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

[Dr. Medulla]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

Pastel buildings.

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

I thought about adding a [/history nerd] tag, but that was probably redundant.

[Wolter]

so uh.. what sort of gay accommodations might one expect in charleston?

Pastel buildings.

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

I thought about adding a [/history nerd] tag, but that was probably redundant.

yeah.

is it wrong that I immediately thought "He sure messed up Sumner but good. Heh heh heh."

[Dr. Medulla]

Pastel buildings.

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

I thought about adding a [/history nerd] tag, but that was probably redundant.

yeah.

is it wrong that I immediately thought "He sure messed up Sumner but good. Heh heh heh."

If some kind of get together ever occurs, I want you to play Brooks and BBE can be Sumner in a reenactment. No, not a reenactment. I want a recreation.

[Wolter]

There's also the Preston Brooks S & M Institute, where outraged gentlemen will cane you into ecstasy.

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

I thought about adding a [/history nerd] tag, but that was probably redundant.

yeah.

is it wrong that I immediately thought "He sure messed up Sumner but good. Heh heh heh."

If some kind of get together ever occurs, I want you to play Brooks and BBE can be Sumner in a reenactment. No, not a reenactment. I want a recreation.

Suh, you have warmed my Antebellum heart.

[Dr. Medulla]

That's a reference designed for 0.014% to get.

I thought about adding a [/history nerd] tag, but that was probably redundant.

yeah.

is it wrong that I immediately thought "He sure messed up Sumner but good. Heh heh heh."

If some kind of get together ever occurs, I want you to play Brooks and BBE can be Sumner in a reenactment. No, not a reenactment. I want a recreation.

Suh, you have warmed my Antebellum heart.

If you wish, eumaas can play Andrew Pickens Butler in this game. Likewise, Flex can play Anson Burlingame for the denouement. And, just for the hell of it, let's get Tep to be Stephen Douglas—there's no real reason for this other than I think he'd ad lib a great Little Giant.