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The Wisconsin Tourism Federation has recently decided to amend its nomenclature to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin, after they learned that their acronym – which they’ve proudly been using since 1979 – was identical to a piece of rude vernacular in common use on the Internet.

The main WTF at work here seems to be why they’d pass up a perfectly good marketing opportunity like this…  after all, the Federated Union of Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Idaho, and Texas Spelunkers aren’t given such a silver platter.

[The Age Online]

I’m not entirely sure ANYONE has figured out what this is meant to be advertising.  Assuming it is an advertisement, of course.

[via jwz]

Shparkley!

Probably not a thread with any longevity, but if you’re into watching ridiculous thread behaviour, Mike Monteiro seems to have tapped a rich seam of boredom over at Flickr, commencing with some kind of diagram he was trying to sell on a t-shirt, but now venturing into what looks like sparkling dictators.

[via laughingsquid on Twitter]

Man, people are really weird.

That horse is frigging sinister

o_O

Actually I wouldn't be altogether upset if elements of this were made compulsory

I bet this guy secretly thinks he's a ninja. Not when he's reclining in a thong, though.

[Thanks for that lot Steve!]

There’s a niche market setting itself right up there – corn fed chicken fed beef.

[Sianyland, via Dave Haste]