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Is anybody else appalled that public money is being spent on a profane ad
campaign by Denver Water?
There are billboards and signs on the back of RTD buses saying, "GV a DM."
Children are being exposed to this message, which does nothing to communicate
the value that clean water adds to our lives and our standard of living.
I, for one, say no to this campaign and urge others to do so. I also urge the
mayor of Denver to discuss this matter with the director of public affairs for
Denver Water and the Denver Water Board. There should be accountability for this
irresponsible use of public funds.
Cathy R. Dudley, Lakewood
Are you really surprised? When so called music uses the words of HO, Bitch and more degradeing terms as well as the f word. You get upset at this ad campaign? I have heard children curse like a sailor on leave in Singapore, something that should make the average person blush. Only to turn around and hear the childs parents use the same derogatory language.
This add campaign may be coarse, but to get upset over it and feign disgust as we sit in intersections subjected to profanity from the next cars radio is absurd.
Posted by The Shadow on October 29, 2007 05:32 AMHow about the obscenity of spending half a trillion dollars on a failed war half a world away? I think it's time people gave a damn.
Posted by Oliver on October 29, 2007 08:44 AMIn any event it would appear that the word the letter writer is objecting to is dam. I'd presume that writer will never be taking their children to see the engineering wonders that are Hoover Dam and Bonneville dam.Probably won't be allowing those children to see Gone With the Wind any time soon either.
Posted by davis X. Machina on October 29, 2007 09:57 AMGuess Cathy won't be taking her kids to the Denver Art Musuem anytime soon either! Maybe a quick lesson in English would be more valuable to her kids....dam versus damn. She clearly doesn't know the difference!
Posted by idk on October 29, 2007 10:37 AMDamn, it looks like this letter writer got shot down!
Posted by sean on October 29, 2007 10:42 AM I think a similar letter originally appeared in the Denver Post, and my thought is still the same: Is this letter a parody? God, I hope so.
Damn or dam is an explitive, it is not obscene unless you're the type who wants to see the word "pregnant" banned from TV. I am sick and tired of adults who want their kids to live in a "perfect" world where the kids will never be exposed to anything the parents don't like, and where the government enforces it. No gay people, no unmarried adults of the opposite sex having fun together without a minister present, no language harsher than darn, no pictures of the casualties of war in newspapers, nothing anywhere under any circumstances that even remotely mentions or even hints at sex, no efforts at bad puns by water departments, no teaching in school how to think critically, or of evolution, or of other cultures, no mention of religions other tthan their own, no Harry Potter, no Wizard of Id, no Halloween. These people don't want children, they want robots.
Okay. I'll admit, it IS obvious that the message is "Give a Damn" as a play on words, meaning: "Give a Dam"
Or, care about the water.
Is it professional? No.
Is it irresponsible? No.
Is it profane? aaaa No.
Is it important? Depends on where you stand on the issue of water conservation.
But, it DID get your attention, didn't it? And that, sweetcheeks is the aim of advertising.
KISSES!!!
Posted by Sheila on October 29, 2007 05:03 PMWhat do you have against Dames? Next thing you know, it will be Knights, then Lords, then Barons. Is this the beginning of an anti-British monarchy movement?
Posted by Mac on October 29, 2007 10:10 PM