Are you a metronatural?
 

Seattle's visitors and convention bureau has adopted a new slogan for our fair city. <i>Metronatural</i>, &quot;designed to highlight Seattle's rare and uniquely marketable combination of urban and outdoor experiences.&quot;

So quick, what word did you first think of when you saw that?

Time's up.

A city girl who doesn't shave her legs? :)

Actually Gardyloo I first read this as Metronuetral and thought it was referring to a persons sexual preference.

My mind is blank :) Sorry. It's been a loooooooooong week for me.

LOL, I saw &quot;Metroneutral,&quot; too1

IMHO: Too cutesy and derivative. Seattle deserves better.

I first thought it was some sort of sci-fi thing. Don't know why....Robotic or something. I think they made a mistake with the slogan.

My first thought was- that's what I am. I love the city (as a visitor) and love the country/nature/lake (to me a lake is nature) forever to distraction.

But in my knowledge and personal experience every metro anything I know is a concrete gorilla. He/she talks about nature, yet spends a whole less time in it- rather ahhhh's from a distance and tends to vote rather green without knowing a tomato plant from a pepper one or how food actually appears. Also doesn't know a plow from a harvester, or a badger from a otter until bitten.

Laughter was my first reaction:D

By chance the same people who came up with the failed &quot;Say Wa&quot; campaign?

At first I thought it said &quot;menstrualnatural&quot; and my reaction was &quot;EEEK!&quot;

I thought of a city guy who doesn't use hair gel and makeup (sort of the opposite of a metrosexual).

I agree that Seattle deserves better... actually I think that Seattle is a great enough place that it doesn't need to label itself - it's above labeling.

Someone who shops at Whole Foods?

Oh gads, my spelling and my typing, lol! Thanks for &quot;getting&quot; what I was trying to convey Anonymous.

I was born with great timing and rhythm so I guess I could be called a......&quot;metronomenautral&quot;? #-O

First word that came to mind:

Was with wife this afternoon when she was picking on a co-worker who said he only spoke one language.

&quot;Oh, so you're Monosapien!&quot; We both laughed, she turned and said,&quot;I just made that up!&quot;

She's a quick one that lady! :)

Metronatural sounds like someone who belongs - or is only happy in a city - that is natural for a metropolitan area.

I think they didn;t do enough focus groups on this one - since it seems to be easily mistaken for exactly the opposite of what they intend.

I think SF has them beat with Metro El Natural ((#))

I have to agree with nytraveler on this one. All that popped into my head was the parts of urban life that I don't like. The natural part of the slogan sounded more like an endorsement of the aforementioned city life than an allusion to all things wild.

I wonder how much this brilliant marketing plan is costing the citizens of Seattle. Baltimore recently adopted the slogan &quot;Get In On It&quot; at a cost of about half a million dollars. I think I'm in the wrong industry.

No, I'm not having the hot flashes yet, I don't expect that for another 10-15 years.

....oh wait a minute, you didn't say menopausal....DOH!! 8-} How embarassing.... :-[

Subterranean tunnel dweller.

Alternate definition, someone who would rather take the subway than a taxi.

I saw an article about this www.nwcn.com and it said it cost $200K. What a waste of money, IMO.

I had to read this one slowly! Yep, another vote for a city girl with hairy legs or a suburbanite with a unibrow. LOL!

My husband says it sounds like a Bushism, like &quot;stategery.&quot;

I think it sounds like some person living in the city who wears birks - sort of on the lines of the city girl who doesn't shave her legs (though I wear birks - without socks, guys! - and I shave my legs.

Ok. For free. Here's a real original. &quot;Seattle Does it Better!&quot; Or, how 'bout this, &quot;Do it better in Seattle!&quot; :-)

My husband says, &quot;Do it wetter in Seattle!&quot; And that one's free, too!!!

We're on a roll here,
&quot;Nobody does it wetter....&quot;

(Gasp!) Who TOLD you?!?!

Metronatural..hhmm..: &quot;someone stinky who rides the subway ?&quot;

I'm tired of all these labels for everything. People who appreciate boths worlds have existed for a long time...and NOW we have to have a word for it.

Tell me...what does a metronatural drive and wear - so I can go buy it and be a part of it.

I'm over it.

Well it's no stupider than the &quot;Emerald City&quot; or &quot;See@L&quot; which thankfully most everyone quickly ignored. Geez this is so embarrassing.

Metronatural - I thought it might be someone who is &quot;a natural&quot; at navigating metro stations. I seem to always get on the bus I want going in the wrong direction - but I'm a natural when it comes to metro rail transit.

Am I a Metronatural?

Of course in San Francisco our transit is called Muni and the streetcars and subways are called Muni Metro.

Metro reminds me of a city. Natural, sort of eco / green minded individual. So a city dweller who takes public transit or drives a hybrid car.

This slogan will go the way of the famous Vegas slogan:

&quot;Las Vegas, It's For Families!&quot;

((I))Why didn't they just use au naturel?

Provocative and about as back to the lush and green healthy hiking and gluteus maximus Adam and Eve days as it gets..

Or they could have promoted the caffeine connection with Java Boy and Grinder Grrl.....

Then what of Bill's contribution?
Microfantasy? Life Simulator 2006?

How about an ode to popular transportation in the area? CloggedArteries and FerryScenic4U..

**oh right, time for the meds again;)

Metronatural = People that stink.

&gt;&quot;So quick, what word did you first think of when you saw that?&gt;

A phrase and it was &quot;Dumbest Slogan Ever&quot;.

Female attorneys with unshaved armpits.

&quot;Dumbest Slogan Ever&quot;.

LOL!!

Embarrassing that somebody actually got paid for that.

I don't know how many times that I come everyday to check out the posts. But everytime in the last two days, I stop and look at &quot;metronatural&quot;

It still looks unnatural and somewhat kinky. Whatever it is, it doesn't describe a city that I think I would like to visit. One time, it made me think of methane gas and manure.

What word first comes to mind when I see that slogan?

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