Connecticut Middle School Wants to Ban "IT'S HUMP DAY!" Saying

[cynatnite]

If you've seen it, it's probably made you stop and watch, given you a chuckle, or maybe even a full on laugh!

But, the hump day catch phrase from the GEICO camel commercial, is catching on in the hallways at Vernon Center Middle School in Connecticut.

Students say some kids have been called into the office, but the superintendent says this isn't a district, or even school wide issue.

She says the teachers just wanted to nip it in the bud.

Some parents say they'll just be happy when it dies back out, maybe even happier than a camel on hump day.

http://www.wtvy.com/news/nation/headlines/Connecticut-Middle-School-Wants-to-Ban-ITS-HUMP-DAY-Saying-226271111.html

[gopiscrap]

1. yeah ban it! that'll really get the kids to stop, not!!!

[msanthrope]

2. The Striesand Effect...

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.

It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently generated further publicity. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters, to suppress numbers, files and websites. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored across the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2]

Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term after Streisand unsuccessfully sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for violation of privacy. The US$50 million lawsuit endeavored to remove an aerial photograph of Streisand's mansion from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs.[1][3][4] Adelman photographed the beachfront property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Coastal Records Project, which was intended to influence government policymakers.[5][6] Before Streisand filed her lawsuit, "Image 3850" had been downloaded from Adelman's website only six times; two of those downloads were by Streisand's attorneys.[7] As a result of the case, public knowledge of the picture increased substantially; more than 420,000 people visited the site over the following month.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

[Happyhippychick]

3. My middle schooler will certainly stop now!

Not!

[HappyMe]

4. Good grief!

I guess it's official. There is nothing left for people to shit themselves about.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. How many people still say, "Whazaaaaap?!" or "7-Up, Up yours!"? It'll die

down eventually.

[joeglow3]

9. Where's the beef?

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. There's an oldie. :)

[Jenoch]

17. Old? If you want old goggle these two:

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

"Try it, you'll like it."

Kids have been overusing catch phases forever. Only a little bit of it is about annoying adults.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. I remember those. There was a Shake n Bake one that ended with "And I helped!" that may be even

older.

[Jenoch]

22. I was thinking of TV catch phrases

that school children repeated enough to annoy adults.

It wasn't a TV spot and it pretty much predates me, but Laugh In might have been responsible for getting Nixon elected in 1968. Nixon's was taped saying 'Sock it to Me?' (he said it as a question, oddly enough) and it gave his campaign a boost.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. You bet your sweet bippy!

[Jenoch]

24. I just read that was the phrase

Nixon was supposed to say but he didn't know what a bippy was so he wouldn't do it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I don't know what it is either!

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Oh, and "Don't squeeze the Charmin! "

[Warren DeMontague]

33. People don't say "Whazaaaaaaap" anymore?

Next you'll be telling me no one does the Macarena.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Thanks to my hubby, our kids say it. LOL

[Blue Owl]

6. What about Twerk Week?

n/t

[HereSince1628]

7. Humping at Texas A&M is a revered tradition

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Are we sufficiently advanced that we have, or can develop a method to remove the stick

from CT.'s collective ass?

[winter is coming]

10. If it's not a district- or school-wide issue, why's it on the news?

And just how dumb are the teachers to believe that forbidding the phrase will make it less appealing to middle schoolers?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. OMG...this is the town next to my hometown ! Connecticut

has turned into a Nazi state. Everytime I go home - there's a new rule for something else.

Freewill is pretty much on it's way out completely

[adirondacker]

16. CT has turned into Wall Streeter's bedroom community mixed with Protestants. Major brain drain there

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Ewww. not sure I agree with that....most aware and erudite people I know

It is a perfect mix of cool small town with all the benefits of big city Boston and NYC with an almost perfect environment - totally green (trees), gorgeous coast - with the quintessential beach cottages - still just like they were when I was a child - fun sports rivalries, neighborhood bars - not full of themselves like VT. BUT....all the trappings of "doing the right thing" and "Nazi recycling" and trying to care too much about what their behavior does to others -- they have gone overboard until it is stiffling.

[LiberalAndProud]

12. This is new?

My middle school years are in the distant past. Wednesday was always humpday even so.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Wednesday has ALWAYS been "hump day."

If any so-called adult thought it had anything to do with humping, or camels, or even humping camels, I'd first ask them what THEY think it means. Preverts.

[Nye Bevan]

14. If they really wanted the kids to stop saying it, just ask the teachers to start saying it. (nt)

[hobbit709]

15. Have you ever seen a school administration that intelligent?

[Spirochete]

18. So we're being politically correct

to camels now? What about that one that was always trying to get kids to smoke?

[NightWatcher]

25. Why do they call it hump day when most people get laid on the weekends?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Really? well tomorrow is Friday ! woohoo

[liberal_at_heart]

29. most people wait til the weekend? I'm glad I'm not most people.

[yuiyoshida]

30. I admit it,...I love that commerical

[steve2470]

31. ty for posting that video, I don't have cable lol nt

[yuiyoshida]

32. Who ever does the voice is brilliant...

cracks me up each time.

[Brigid]

34. I'm afraid I gotta disagree with you.

I hate that commercial. But that doesn't mean I think banning the lastest catchphrase will do any good.

[yuiyoshida]

35. Geico has always done some funny commericals in the past...

I mean...this was one of my all time favorites...

[Brigid]

36. Didn't much care for that one either.

Humor really is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.