
Just saw in the Daily that the JH News and Guide is holding a catchphrase contest, in which the public can enter their own choice of catchphrase to replace the old, careworn, clichéd, inaccurate, but it-still-aint-broke-’cause-it-never-made-sense-in-the-first-place catchphrase, “Last of the Old West.”
The contest ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. I would provide a link to the contest, but searching for the keyword “catchphrase” on the News and Guide website results in nada. As in nothing.
According to the Daily NaG, categories for the catchphrase contest include “most sincere, funniest, and most chamber-like.” Chamber-like? I take that to mean, most likely to be shouted out by a cheerleader.
Confused, I sought more guidelines in the Daily. JH Chamber executive director Tim O’Donoghue said (if I’m reading correctly) that “We don’t know how to draw the line” between the old west and the new west. “How do we empower both to continue? That’s the billion-dollar question.”
Billion dollars . . . billion dollars . . . oh, right, the Art Hazen real estate scoreboard! True inspiration.
So, for lack of alternatives, I thought I would provide The Snaz as a forum for people who wanted to toss around a few ideas. According to O’Donoghue, the catchphrase should “clearly articulate your message and identity.” Okay, then, here are a few of my own suggestions:
Jackson Hole: Enjoy the view. You can’t afford it.
Jackson Hole: As seen in the most recent issue of Outside Magazine.
Jackson Hole: Displacing wildlife, one moose at a time.
Jackson Hole: Home to the Wilson Mom, highest member of the human food chain.
Jackson Hole: Harrison Ford doesn’t live here anymore.
Jackson Hole: Come on in! There’s plenty of space for your jet in the national park and no state income tax.
Jackson Hole: Impeach Cheney first.
Jackson Hole: Remember winter?
All other suggestions welcome!









































The Wilson Mom?
How about the uber competitive, I-can-hike-Glory-faster-than-all-the-other-chicks chicks? We’re at the top of the food chain.
Or
Jackson Hole: Where everyone is a writer/photographer/yogi Realtor.
I think it’s spelled “Realtor ©™$”.
Anyway. . .
Jackson Hole: Where Legend Is Myth.
Jackson Hole: Reach For The Sky.
Jackson Hole: Wyoming’s Money Shot.
Jackson Hole: aka East Victor.
Jackson Hole: But Enough About Us. What About You? What Do You Think Of Us?
Jackson Hole: We’ll Make You Feel Right At Home, Especially If You’re From Phoenix Or Houston Or Wherever Else Developers Have Laid Waste.
Jackson Hole: Where newspaper contests usually end up being a dud
(particularly when there’s no online entry)
Wyoming’s Money Shot. Awesome.
Jackson Hole: That’s not smog that’s smoke.
Jackson Hole: Celebrating Handgun Slaughter in the Streets, Every Nite at 6. Bring the family!
Jackson Hole: Drink away your trust fund
Jackson: Apres College
Welcome to Jackson, where the cougars run wild.
Jackson Hole: What on earth are you doing here?
JH: occupied…
JH: where the streets are paved with ice.
JH: hurry up already, housing slump!
JH: dare you to find a housing rental
JH: the money pit
JH: love it and leave it
JH: more fake cowboys than aspen and park city combined
JH: the sleeping indian damns all of you.
JH: where everything used to be legal
JH: where billionaires become hermits
JH: for sale, serious inquiries only
JH: millionaire regentrification project completed!
JH: INEL fallout area
JH: slopeside on the supervolcano
JH: should be an Indian Reservation
JH: where you can see all 50 liscence plates almost daily
JH: not as many meth-heads as the rest of wyoming
JH: only the rich survive
Jackson Hole: The only county in Wyoming to vote Democratic
Jackson Hole: We have a big DICK