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budaho
10-23-2006, 08:35 AM
and it only cost $500,000 to find it out. what an amazingly awesome way to spend tax dollars.

i'm really glad we had all that extra money sitting around and all. I wonder when we're going to hear the announcement about all the extra money public schools are going to get. or wait, I forgot, schools don't get any money around here.... oh well


atleast we got a cool new slogan now.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-10-21-metronatural_x.htm


"How do you use that in a sentence?" Telesco asked. "'Welcome to Metronatural.' ... It's an airport where you can buy organic bananas."

Others suggested "metronatural" evoked an urban nudist camp, and started speculating about whether it would last longer than the widely panned "SayWA," which the state dropped recently because it failed to catch on.

"Metronatural" is the result of a 16-month, $200,000 effort by Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau, which included 60 people from the bureau, the mayor's office and businesses. The bureau plans to spend $300,000 marketing the slogan, er, "destination brand position," which was developed by a local marketing firm called Exclaim. The advertising will largely be targeted at generating business for the Washington Convention and Trade Center.

"Seattle offers the best of both worlds," Don Welsh, the bureau's president, said in a news release. "We have a vibrant urban center surrounded by pristine wilderness and outdoor recreation."

The idea of "metronatural" was to capture that, Welsh said, adding that so far, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. He said some people might not get it if they're simply told what the slogan is, but once they see it on photographs of the city, Puget Sound or the Cascades, it really resonates.

A sampling of vendors and tourists at Pike Place Market, one of the city's premier attractions, suggested the photos could probably stand on their own: Seattle is beautiful and vibrant enough that it doesn't need a slogan, several said, let alone one that plays on that buzzword of yesteryear "metrosexual."
Cethe
10-23-2006, 09:50 AM
wow....what a load of crap.
Roddimus
10-23-2006, 10:16 AM
Let's all come up with our own Seattle slogans!

Seattle: We're not New York yet, but we've got naked sushi and mountains.

Seattle: It's not where Kurt Cobain was born, but it is where he committed suicide.

Seattle: Paul Allen's debit card.

Seattle: Providing the soundtrack to every generation's nostalgia since September 18, 1970.

Seattle: Public trans-what???

Seattle: If you don't own a boat, you'd might as well be a molding pile of dog shit.

Seattle: Where the rich make friends and the poor can't afford sporting events.

Seattle: Now with leather pants!
budaho
10-23-2006, 10:47 AM
i gotta vote for this one.

"Seattle: Where the rich make friends and the poor can't afford sporting events."

see how cheap that was. now i wonder who the genius that scammed seattle out of $200,000 is. talk about an easy buck
Cethe
10-23-2006, 10:51 AM
hahahahahaaaa!!!!!!


for reals.....wtf yo...i want that job.
Loki
10-23-2006, 12:31 PM
Originally posted by Roddimus
Seattle: If you don't own a boat, you'd might as well be a molding pile of dog shit.


Bwahaha! Good one!
Mee-Shell
10-23-2006, 12:36 PM
What a ridiculous slogan. Which metro-sexual idiot came up with that? There are so many other slogans they could've come up with.
galoux
10-23-2006, 12:48 PM
Originally posted by Roddimus

Seattle: Now with leather pants!
i cast my vote for this one.
IrisSilverMoon
10-23-2006, 01:32 PM
i want to know why it cost $200,000 to come up with such a shitty slogan.

Seattle got cheated.
Roddimus
10-23-2006, 02:26 PM
Seattle: Where literature majors go to become alcoholics.

Seattle: Where trends go to be confused with peoples' identities.

Seattle: Where internet addicts go to make 30 dollars an hour.
U812A
10-23-2006, 02:31 PM
"Seattle: We Usually Smell Better Than Tacoma."
budaho
10-23-2006, 02:50 PM
Originally posted by U812A
"Seattle: We Usually Smell Better Than Tacoma."

bwahahah

i have to redraft my vote for this one.
Mayo Finch
10-23-2006, 02:56 PM
Seattle: We got a bunch of Ferries!

Seattle: Our kids will teach yours how to really use drugs!

Seattle: Who needs TV when you have all these junkies to keep you entertained?

Seattle: where the trends are lethal.

Seattle: psycho is normal here

Seattle: the LA of the Northwest

Seattle: rich fuckers can legally pee on the poor!

(Eugene's is actually- "Eugene: Were all here because were not all there")
milgramShock
10-23-2006, 03:05 PM
Originally posted by IrisSilverMoon
i want to know why it cost $200,000 to come up with such a shitty slogan.

Seattle got cheated.

Seattle probably got what it paid for, coming up with a slogan or brand for anything large like a city is expensive, weather you agree its a good one or not.
Nukegrrrl
10-23-2006, 03:17 PM
Originally posted by Roddimus
Seattle: Where literature majors go to become alcoholics. Do Liberal Arts majors count?
budaho
10-23-2006, 03:19 PM
Originally posted by Mayo Finch
Seattle: We got a bunch of Ferries!

Seattle: Our kids will teach yours how to really use drugs!

Seattle: Who needs TV when you have all these junkies to keep you entertained?

Seattle: where the trends are lethal.

Seattle: psycho is normal here

Seattle: the LA of the Northwest

Seattle: rich fuckers can legally pee on the poor!

(Eugene's is actually- "Eugene: Were all here because were not all there")

those all sound like portland slogans... ;)

if thats really eugene's slogan then you guys hit a bullseye.


and you're probably right milgramShock 200,000 is probably pretty cheap compared to what most companies pay for a marketting slogan. But seattle's not a company, and imo doesn't need a slogan made up bysome metrosexual advertising agent that still thinks that word is cool (the only thing cool about that word was when southpark made fun of it for 30 minutes). If we had to come up with a new slogan (what was wrong with the Emerald City) i think the people of seattle probably could have submitted and voted on a bunch of way better ideas than that for the cost of a newspaper add and a website. we probably did get what we paid for, but we shouldn't have paid a damn penny.

for some reason i keep thinking of the simpsons episode where the monorail sales man convinces springfield they need a monorail.
Nukegrrrl
10-23-2006, 03:19 PM
Originally posted by Roddimus
Seattle: Where literature majors go to become alcoholics. Olympia: Where alcoholics go to become Literature majors.
B_tech
10-23-2006, 03:55 PM
I honestly thought this was going to be some lame-ass new slogan for people, like metrosexual.

Oh wow... they've already defiled the Space Needle:

http://images.usatoday.com/travel/_photos/2006/10/21/metronatural.jpg
U812A
10-23-2006, 04:00 PM
Originally posted by B_tech
I honestly thought this was going to be some lame-ass new slogan for people, like metrosexual.


What would a metronatural person be? Someone who camps outdoors in an urban area maybe? Well, Seattle does have plenty of those. So does Portland. When you look at it that way the slogan actually starts to make sense...
B_tech
10-23-2006, 04:03 PM
Originally posted by U812A
What would a metronatural person be? Someone who camps outdoors in an urban area maybe? Well, Seattle does have plenty of those. So does Portland. When you look at it that way the slogan actually starts to make sense...
hmmm touche. the wife and I do enjoy the city-camping, like @ Saltwater State Park..

I dunno, the name conjured up thoughts of metrosexual guys with extra hairy legs, because they decided that leg hair wasn't something they needed or wanted to shave anymore to retain their 'metro' moniker.
doodlinggirl
10-23-2006, 04:13 PM
Originally posted by B_tech
I honestly thought this was going to be some lame-ass new slogan for people, like metrosexual.

Oh wow... they've already defiled the Space Needle:

http://images.usatoday.com/travel/_photos/2006/10/21/metronatural.jpg

i'm so hoping thats a photochop and they haven't actually done that yet *crosses fingers*
IrisSilverMoon
10-23-2006, 05:18 PM
too late, is already up there. they said so in the article.
doodlinggirl
10-23-2006, 05:23 PM
Originally posted by doodlinggirl
i'm so hoping thats a photochop and they haven't actually done that yet *crosses fingers*

HEY!!!! i didnt post that.....

john, log me out of your computer!!!

:p
budaho
10-23-2006, 07:26 PM
no, never!


er, damn i already did it.
DjBear_PDX
10-23-2006, 07:38 PM
Seattle: Home of the soy latte. WTF were we thinking?

Seattle: Come for the coffee, stay for the self-loathing.
.-=PSYLON=-.
10-24-2006, 12:23 AM
Seattle:

Well hire ANY asshole to think of our state slogan.
milgramShock
10-24-2006, 08:42 AM
Seattle: We Think Portland Sucks, Even Though We Have Never Been There.
Nukegrrrl
10-24-2006, 08:54 AM
Portland: Where the only people who think it's cool to live there moved there 2 years ago.
Cethe
10-24-2006, 10:40 AM
Originally posted by B_tech

Oh wow... they've already defiled the Space Needle:

http://images.usatoday.com/travel/_photos/2006/10/21/metronatural.jpg



oh shit.....that's it, i'm moving.
doodlinggirl
10-24-2006, 11:18 AM
Originally posted by Cethe
oh shit.....that's it, i'm moving.


to PORTLAND!!!??!????
B_tech
10-24-2006, 12:12 PM
Originally posted by Cethe
oh shit.....that's it, i'm moving.
Right?!

It's one thing to have a slogan, but to plaster it on the space needle? That's just wrong in so many ways.
doodlinggirl
10-24-2006, 01:21 PM
i still think you should move to portland ceth.....


come on......use it as an excuse.......


DO IT!!!!!!
Headphones Dude
10-24-2006, 01:25 PM
It sounds like a lame Smoothie flavor. It's just as bad as Say Wa. They wasted $200, 000 on this lame campaign.....:o
Cethe
10-24-2006, 02:34 PM
nopooo i'm not moving to PDX...it smells down there...lol
Mayo Finch
10-24-2006, 03:08 PM
Originally posted by Cethe
nopooo i'm not moving to PDX...it smells down there...lol

What does your hygine have to do with Portland?
Cethe
10-24-2006, 03:40 PM
too many hippies & their patchouli
doodlinggirl
10-24-2006, 03:47 PM
Originally posted by Cethe
too many hippies & their patchouli

NO NO NO....you are confusing eugene with portland......



;)
budaho
10-24-2006, 03:53 PM
Originally posted by doodlinggirl
NO NO NO....you are confusing eugene with portland......



;)

no he's just noticed that the smell carries that far ;)
Ratboy
10-24-2006, 03:54 PM
Originally posted by Cethe
too many hippies & their patchouli

this from a goth who wears nag chompa like its going outta style! j/k :p

Yeah this slogan crap is simply that, crap. People in marketing always get paid too much to think too little about what the 'average' person thinks or most importantly.. what they spend money on, or how can they be talked into spending their money on it.

"I gave some spare change to some 'metronaturals' downtown the other day."... Seriously it sounds like well dressed homeless people in hand-me-down gore tex pan-handling for espresso money. That slogan is getting ghey with kids.

damn metros!
Tertyl
10-25-2006, 06:37 AM
Seattle : Where even crack dealers can become Billionaires (Gates&Shultz)!
milgramShock
10-25-2006, 08:08 AM
Originally posted by Nukegrrrl
Portland: Where the only people who think it's cool to live there moved there 2 years ago.

lol.

Portland: I was actually born here, and that makes me that much more important.
Tertyl
10-25-2006, 08:30 AM
Portland : Come for the pot, stay for the strippers!
doodlinggirl
10-25-2006, 08:34 AM
Originally posted by Tertyl
Portland : Come for the pot, stay for the strippers!


WOOOOOHOOO HOOOOOO!!!!


lmao.....



im a native pdxer too milgram shock....not many of us here....:p