Tuesday, September 14

What's In A Name? - Sending The Wrong Message

   1. "Name change for Little Dicker chapel"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1099090.html >
   "The pastor of Little Dicker chapel has changed its name because too many
    'depraved' minds found it funny"

   2. "Rude message found on Aero bars"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_907988.html >
   "According to a source at the factory in York, the words 'S**t bar' appeared
    where the Best Before date and code would normally be printed"

   3. "Slang crosses up GM"
      < http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/10/16/227790.html >
   "A General Motors executive yesterday admitted that the future Buick model --
    which is set to debut late next year -- will be re-named in Canada after GM
    learned LaCrosse is a Quebec slang term for masturbation"

   4. "'Colourful' acronym forces Iraq army name change"
      < http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200306/s887364.htm >
   "The planned force was originally entitled the New Iraqi Corps, whose initials
    in Arabic produce a colourful synonym for fornication"

   5. "Family sick of living on Butt Hole Road"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_831848.html >
   "They say people posed for pictures outside their house in Conisbrough, many of
    them with their trousers dropped"

   6. "Wyo. seeks name change for 'obscene' road"
      < http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031121_481.html >
   "County Road 6FU southwest of Cody got its name in 1980, when Park County
    adopted an alpha-numeric road naming system"