“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Rooting in Taihape
In an email today from a Quote Unquote reader who remembers this post about the world’s worst tourism slogans:
By the way, on the subject of branding towns in NZ, we passed through Taihape and bought some plants from a shop called “Born in Taihape”. The sub headline of the shop was, wait for it: “Thoroughly rooted”.
And then there was, if memory serves, the "Gore-Clinton: Alternative Route" signpost, which lasted just a few days until the forces of decency removed it.
And then there was, if memory serves, the "Gore-Clinton: Alternative Route" signpost, which lasted just a few days until the forces of decency removed it.
ReplyDeleteThere is a road works in progress in West Auckland, eagerly anticipated by locals as 'The Hobsonville Deviation'.
ReplyDeleteIn George St in Mt Eden by the railway crossing before New North Road there used to be a sign, "Hump No Stopping".
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