{"id":854,"date":"2004-06-07T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/dont-mess-with-texas-its-not-a-macho-message\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T13:28:24","slug":"dont-mess-with-texas-its-not-a-macho-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/dont-mess-with-texas-its-not-a-macho-message\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;don&#8217;t mess with texas&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s not a macho message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>perhaps because there are too many underemployed lawyers in texas,  ap is reporting that the texas transportation department has sent 23 cease-and-desist letters to companies that use some variation of the &#8220;don&#8217;t mess with texas&#8221; slogan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040606_1041.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Don&#8217;t Mess With Our Slogan,  Texas Warns<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The slogan was created by an Austin advertising firm in 1986,  and made its television premiere during the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Department only recently stepped up enforcement to protect its trademark, registered in 2000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>seems like a pretty big gap to me&#8230; and what happened to &#8220;don&#8217;t mess with texas&#8221; between 1986 and 2004?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=%22don%27t+mess+with+texas%22&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">lots<\/a> [that&#8217;s &#8220;about 19,200&#8221; hits at the moment] only &#8220;about 1630&#8221; of which include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22don%27t+mess+with+texas%22+litter&#038;btnG=Search&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8\">litter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040606_1041.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Don&#8217;t Mess With Our Slogan, Texas Warns<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The state of Texas has a lot of money invested in the slogan, and we definitely want people to know it&#8217;s a litter prevention message, it&#8217;s not a macho message,&#8221; said Doris Howdeshell, director of the department&#8217;s travel division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>um.  ok.  if you say so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>perhaps because there are too many underemployed lawyers in texas, ap is reporting that the texas transportation department has sent 23 cease-and-desist letters to companies that use some variation of the &#8220;don&#8217;t mess with texas&#8221; slogan. Don&#8217;t Mess With Our Slogan, Texas Warns The slogan was created by an Austin advertising firm in 1986, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}