Yesterday, as I stepped off the bus at the corner of King and James heading yet again to Toronto for a movie shoot, I looked across the street and witnessed a scene that provided both repulse and amusement.
Some "person" who decided to remain anonymous, has sponsored a campaign to promote their narrow view of Hamiltons friends in Toronto.
The add campaign entails 8-10 teenagers to stand on the street corner, wearing tee-shirts and holding plaque cards with the catchy slogan "Toronto Sucks" emblazed in block letters.
In the minute and a half that it took for the light to change and for me to make it across the street, I studied closely these kids promotional skills. Stand, wait for a car to pass, scream their lame slogan and coax a horn honk in support from some "loser" who remembers the time they got kicked out of a Toronto after hours club.
Anyway, even after watching the report from a local CH News reporter I am still confused to the purpose of this campaign, what about Toronto does this "promoter of ridiculous propaganda" exactly think "Sucks?
These kids couldn't effectively offer any proof of their "hypothesis" only stupid looks when confronted by people who used words to communicate their anti view that this campaign only cheapens Hamiltons reputation and not primitive noises like a car horn.
And news flash for these kids, the majority of Hamiltonians are far more intelligent than you and your boss and if we do have a problem with another community we don't digress to childish to first grade name calling. If we must, Mr. Anonymous, "You Suck!"
I would love to start my own straw poll here at Kenaz's Blog "Who Sucks More, this campaign or Toronto?" Not to try to influence but to borrow from a popular add campaign, T-shirts and poster board $50, Hired Kids $100, Licence ??? minus the ten of thousands that flows between the two cities = "Losers"
Later,
Kenaz
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