No Lifeguard at the Gene Pool

[ohiobuck94]

This is funny! :)

Abercrombie & Fitch pokes fun at West Virginia, again
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Posted: 5:55 PM EDT (2155 GMT)


CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Abercrombie & Fitch is poking fun at West Virginia with a T-shirt again, this one reading: "West Virginia: No Lifeguard at the Gene Pool."

Gov. Bob Wise called the slogan cruel and said he would fight back.

In March, Wise sent a letter demanding that the chain of collegiate-style clothing stores dump a shirt that read, "It's All Relative in West Virginia."

"It is unfortunate that Abercrombie & Fitch continues to perpetuate stereotypes rather than positive things like the number of residents serving in the military or the state's PROMISE scholarship program," Wise spokeswoman Jodi Omear said Wednesday.

Other Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts lampoon Kentucky ("Electricity in Almost Every Town") and Wisconsin ("Wisconsin Cuts the Cheese").

Abercrombie & Fitch, based in New Albany, Ohio, earlier defended its shirt slogans as lighthearted humor.

Spokesman Tom Lennox did not immediately return a call Wednesday

 

[tibor75]

the T shirts that they had a few years ago which were Anti-asian were hilarious...

 

[CleveBucks]

Two Wongs can make it white... lol

 

[ohiobuck94]

A West Virginian hitchhiker was picked up by a guy in a big Lincoln Continental. The West Virginian noticed a bunch of golf tees on the front seat and asked, "What are those things for?" The driver said, "They're to hold my balls while I drive." "Boy," exclaimed the West Virginian, "these Lincoln Continentals have everything, don't they?"

 

[gregorylee]

They also mentioned another shirt from the previous year or something


West Virginia.... It's all relative


Kinda makes me not wonder so much about those Marshall Morons

 

[tibor75]

 

[horseshoe1]

If governor "NOT SO" Wise would just keep his mouth shut instead of advertising for the shirt manufacturer it would sell a lot less shirts.
But again, he is from Wesserginnie.