"Not in my backyard."
It’s election time! Which means everyone’s talking about parties – and parties have names. We’ve had plenty in this country over the years…The Nullifier Party of the 1830s, the Anti-Nebraska Party of 1854, and the Readjuster Party to name a few you may have forgotten. These days we have the Tea Party, which an article in Forbes says will always seem lightweight because of its name, and of course the recently coined Rent Is Too Damn High Party. For those of you trying to name your own, there’s actually a political party name generator…
An investor in the website Bible.com has sued the company for not making a big enough profit off the “goldmine” domain name. WTFWJD?
Teodoro Obiang, corrupt dictator of Equatorial Guinea, is trying to buy some of the values represented by UNESCO’s brand name.
Meadowfoam, kit-kit-dizzee, fetid adder’s tongue – check out some creative and colloquial names for California’s native plants.
Myanmar has rebranded itself with a new name, flag and anthem. Now that it’s officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, well…we’ll just keep calling it Burma.
A new beaver was recently discovered living in the Bronx river, and an online naming contest revealed that people are as crazy for pop music as ever – the local rodent will now be known as Justin Beaver.
Google’s Android 4.0 operating system will likely be named Ice Cream. This will follow the upcoming Gingerbread and Honeycomb operating systems. Gingerbread honeycomb ice cream sandwich, anyone?
