According to Little Known Facts About Well-Known Stuff by David Hoffman
After endless meeting to come up with a name for the monorail at the San Diego Zoo, Chief Designer David Faust threw up his hands and as a joke scribbled down WGASA. Because it sounded vaguely African it stuck. Now known as World's Greatest Animal Show Anywhere started out as Who Gives....
Snopes confirms. http://www.snopes.com/business/names/wgasa.asp
WGAS in Print
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WGAS in Print
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.