Now, if Daffy Duck said it …
Oh come on. I’m from Massachusetts and this is such an old joke. They should just change the town’s name (which came from someone named Atholl … or something like that.)
Town gets anal over ad mocking its name
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A cable sports network says it no longer will make Athol the butt of its jokes.
Comcast SportsNet said Thursday it would pull a newspaper ad that leaders of the small central Massachusetts town called insulting and offensive. The ad featured two side-by-side signs that together read: “We can pronounce Worcester … without sounding like an Athol.”
It just gets better, doesn’t it?
Selectman Susannah Whipps was the lone selectmen of the five to vote against sending the letter to the network. She told the Telegram and Gazette newspaper of Worcester that she was not offended by the ad, and predicted the publicity would help Comcast.
She was more concerned, she said, about vandals who add an “r” and an “e” to town signs to change the name to “rathole.”
Another Mass. joke: A guy calls a talk radio show and identifies himself as, “Dick Hertz from Holden.” (rimshot)
I’m sorry, don’t they like saying Wooster?
It’s “Wista.”
Back in the late 80s I heard a fake ad on WBCN promising a live report from said town by a guy named Falk. “Coming up next, Falk in Athol!”
There’s a funny story behind that b/c one of the guys there lived in Athol.