New Massachusetts Slogan

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Massachusetts has reportedly spent $300,000 coming up with a new state slogan.

Ready?

Massachusetts …Make it Yours

This looks like a variation on Gov. King’s “Make it in Massachusetts”, which was apparently never really a slogan. It’s not very impressive.

There’s nothing like a state slogan to bring out the complainers and humorists. Check out these:

http://cltg.org/cltg/barbara/Barb98-05-23.html

http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-98/05-15-98/a02sr009.htm

And these are old columns – before the new slogan was unveiled.

Several years back Utah’s Tourism folks came up with Utah – a Pretty, Great State. The Utahns didn’t particularly like that one, either. Cartoonist Pat Bagley drew a picture of sloganeers sitting around a table with a paper reading: “Utah – a pretty good state if you like that kind of thing I guess”, and suggesting that it needed a comma.
So — is Massachusrtts’ new slogan worth the money? Can you come up with a better one?

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Massachusetts – You Have to Drive Through Us to Get to New England!

(this used to be my state slogan for Connecticut, but as Mass is becoming more and more homogenous with the rest of the Blander Lower 48, it’s beginning to fit. And so far Connecticut hasn’t offered me $300,000, so you can have it)

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How about:

Massachusetts - What we lack in monuments we make up for in consonents.

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Wow, glad my tax dollars are going to something so… useful.

Here’s mine:

Massachusetts: Where the only thing big is The Dig.

Kn(I’ll take my $300k now, please)ckers

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Oh, and another:

Massachusetts: Because driving should be an adventure.

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I live in Western Massachusetts! Lucky me! Heh… At one point - I swear I’m not making this up - either the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce or the Greenfield Business Association (I can’t remember which) started this ad campaign, supposedly to attract tourism to the area. It showed a picture of people in a canoe against a beautiful backdrop of New England wilderness. The slogan: “Winter went away - now it’s your turn.” I’m laughing just thinking about it. I still have a copy of this somewhere, and if I were at home right now I’d snap a picture of it with my digital camera and put it on the web.

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Massachusetts - Where the party started.

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Massachussetts: Where tea ain’t for drinkin’

Help! I can’t stop!

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“Massachusetts - we’re wicked cool”

“You can’t spell MASSive tAxes CHisled oUt of every everyone’S wallETTS without… oh, never mind.”

“Massachusetts - the extra T is for extra Taxes”

“Massachusetts - you can’t get there from here”

“Come for the baked beans, stay for the cream pie”

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“Massachusetts – expensive but worth it”

“As much history as Virginia, but without that pesky slavery thing!”

“Old, slow and in the way”

“Massachusetts – you can’t spell it, but you’ll love it!”

“Massachusetts – not just for rich liberals! (But it helps)”

“Our drivers can make your drivers wet their pants”

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Indiana Dunes: On a good day you can see Chicago, otherwise you can just look at the steel mills.

Indiana: We’ve heard all the jokes, and the Amish are in Nappanee.

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I grew up in MA. This is fun!

“We’re not as snooty as you think”

“Drive up our Pike”

“300 Kennedys can’t be wrong”

“We laughed at Dukakis too!”

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“Check out our new Digs!”

“Remember that movie Good Will Hunting? That was here!”

“Come get a Mass-kicking!”

“In Massachusetts, all roads lead to nowhere in particular”

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Massachusetts- Friends don’t let friends drive with Ted Kennedy

Massachusetts- Live here before moving to some place nicer in New Hampshire!

*The number of MA families that have moved to NH (mine included) in the past 15 years is mind-boggling. *
Even if they do make it their new slogan, it’s taken them most of my life to swap to the “new” plates, so does anyone picture seeing it on the back of a car any time soon? The DMV doesn’t dick around up here, we all had our new, vastly uglier, plates within 12 months… :slight_smile:

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Massachusetts – The best politicians money can buy!

Massachusetts – Home of Car Talk

Massachusetts – Kennedy Target Practice Every Friday!

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Massachusetts – We Got Crabs

Massachusetts – Giving Europe ‘The Finger’ for 200 Years!

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Ergh. The winning slogan reminds me of the “Make 7- Up Yours” ads.

I want to move back to Chicago.

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Massachusetts - the New Brunswick of the US!

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I once made up a slogan for Vermont, playing on the fact that’s it’s often mistaken for New Hampshire on the map:

Vermont-We’re the One on the Left!

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Massachusetts - sooner or later you’ll be able to spell it!

I was just driving around western Canada - I liked the slogan
Super. Natural.
British Columbia

but I’m cheesy that way.