07.02
Heard about it on NPR and then On the Button: pork wants a shiny new tagline. Without further ado, some (mostly joke) ideas.
Pork:
- Brought to you by the makers of bacon
- Carnitas? More like carneato!
- Don’t hog the pork
- Don’t stick your snout up at it
- Favorite of the Chinese, your soon-to-be overlords
- Finally, something that doesn’t taste like chicken
- Got a beef with beef? Think chicken’s for chickens? Try pork.
- If you’re not eating pork, the terrorists have already won
- It’s actually red meat. Gotcha!
- It’s cracklin’!
- It’s in the can
- It’s got chops
- It’s time for America to bring home the bacon
- It’s what pork rinds are made of
- Jews can’t eat it. Muslims can’t eat it. Someone’s gotta!
- Makin’ bacon
- Now available in smoked flavor
- Oink it up!
- Pig out
- Probably an ingredient in SPAM
- Red, white and true
- So sweet. And yet so sour.
- Solving the mystery in “mystery meat”
- Swine and dine yourself (Wine and swine yourself?)
- Ten times more charmin’ than that Arnold on Green Acres (Pulp Fiction reference)
- That ain’t kosher
- That’ll do
- The red, white and good-to-chew meat
- This little piggy is delicious
- What’s one less pig?
- What’s the matter? Chicken?
- You can’t spell “spork” without pork
Got ideas?
[Thanks to Mom for originally pointing out this story.]
10.06
Heard a great story about naming on NPR the other day. I love the interviewee’s idea of “WTF should I do in Wisconsin?” Hilarious.
Click here to read or listen.
And here’s a link to the related blog post at A Hundred Monkeys; NPR interviewed them for the story.
06.23
Although I’d planned on entering, I narrowly missed the deadline (oops) for 2009 submissions to New Times’ 55 Fiction competition, which calls on readers to submit 55-word fictional stories. So I was excited to hear the announcement of NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction Contest, requiring authors to write stories that can easily be read out loud within three minutes (under 600 words, according to them, but shorter is fine).
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04.29
Yesterday I read Bob Hoffman’s amusing post about “death fatigue,” and it got me thinking about how much of the fear and fanaticism surrounding swine flu can be attributed to the name. It sounds awful. Much more unpleasant than bird flu, for example.
Then, on my 30-minute commute (plus or minus) into the office today, I heard 30 minutes (plus or minus) of NPR swine flu stories, and nothing else. I now know the status of swine flu preparedness for just about every country on Earth. A couple of the stories, both of which I found pretty amusing, were about groups that are upset about the name and the alternative names they’ve proposed.
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02.24
Heard a story on NPR this morning about Obama’s “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” and was annoyed by a comment by Republican Senator Joe Barton. The congressman told the President “I think the House Republicans have shown that when we’re not included in the decision making, we’re disinclined to sign off on the solution.” According to the story, Obama called this “an important point.”
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