Oklahoma To Drop "Cow Manure Tossing" From Tourism Brochure

[matcom]

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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma tourism officials have recalled about 200,000 brochures with images of activities that may have seemed uninviting to some travelers, such as cow manure tossing and re-enacting Confederate battles, officials said on Wednesday.

The pamphlet, called 2005 Annual Events Guide, featured events and activities throughout Oklahoma. It was also riddled with spelling, grammatical and factual mistakes.

"We discovered the material in the event guide was culturally insensitive and contained errors," said state tourism director Rob Gray.

One item that may not have helped was a photo of an event in which lumps of cow manure are thrown as a part of a contest in the town of Beaver, in western Oklahoma.

Another photo tourism officials found potentially objectionable showed Civil War re-enactors in Confederate uniforms firing cannons underneath a Confederate battle flag.

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[XNASA]

1. I'm cancelling my trip to Beaver.

The manure toss contest was the only reason I was going there in the first place.

[TX-RAT]

2. Organic Frisbees?

[TlalocW]

3. I've contacted several of the smaller towns around Tulsa

Where I live to see if they would like to hire me as a balloon twister. One small town's major celebration is called the "Hard Times Festival," which "celebrates" the 1930s and Great Depression. Wheeeeeee, what fun. Soup lines instead of funnel cakes I guess.

TlalocW

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. Let me apologize for the idiots in my state...

I swear to God, I'm not one of them. :scared:
Duckie