I'm In A Garden State of Mind

"Where ya from?"   
 
For some of us, that question is right up there with "have you ever been audited before" and "do you know how old she ACTUALLY is?" for the scariest thing that you can be asked.   
 
Being from New Jersey, that question is especially awful because its always followed by any combination of the following:
 
a.) What exit?!
 
b.) Smug laughter

and my favorite
 
c.) Oh... That explains it.
 
Like all states, New Jersey has a slogan to attract tourists - a slogan that they recently decided to update.  So, they hired an ad agency, spent millions of dollars, and this is what they got back:

"New Jersey: Give It A Shot."

The state had to tell them that they weren't gonna be able to use the slogan because it was TOO NEGATIVE!   
 
You know the state you're from is fucked-up if the people you hired to tell everyone how great it is decide that the best thing to do is open with something self deprecating.   
 
What did that slogan beat-out?!  "New Jersey: It's probably not as bad as you think" or "New Jersey: Because You Cant Afford to Go Somewhere Nice"?

What else could these people have come-up with?  

"New Jersey: The Garden State…  because it smells like manure.”

"New Jersey: the radioactive state.”

"New Jersey: Hey, we got rid of the gay Governor!”
 
After nixing the proposed slogan, the state opened it up to an online poll, which is always a great idea.  The site received 62,000 submissions, but 61,000 of them were "New Jersey: Fuhget-about-it."   
 
On the plus-side, it's better than West Virgina's new slogan: "Come to West Virgina - Birthplace of Sister Fuckin."