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July Contest - Name the XL Guy
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Chris Davison
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how about "Malcolm XL" ?
nothing political, religious, racial or whatever, just a historical proper name with the XL pun. It could also mirror the fact that we have a logo (or figurehead) that we all follow, with ever-increasing membership, with a common goal (Excel), united, where geographical borders mean nothing and our ultimate aim is to better ourselves and to help our fellow (wo)men.
None of us know where this forum could migrate upwards to (in terms of www prescence) but it might be also romantically ironic if our logo named after a pre-computer-age spiritual icon accompanied us into a leading 21st-century technical online forum.
Chris
[Anyone : if you're going to attack this suggestion on any religious or racial standpoint, I can't be arsed to reply. Malcolm is a name, XL is an application. Malcolm XL is a pun, and a pretty good one]
nothing political, religious, racial or whatever, just a historical proper name with the XL pun. It could also mirror the fact that we have a logo (or figurehead) that we all follow, with ever-increasing membership, with a common goal (Excel), united, where geographical borders mean nothing and our ultimate aim is to better ourselves and to help our fellow (wo)men.
None of us know where this forum could migrate upwards to (in terms of www prescence) but it might be also romantically ironic if our logo named after a pre-computer-age spiritual icon accompanied us into a leading 21st-century technical online forum.
Chris
[Anyone : if you're going to attack this suggestion on any religious or racial standpoint, I can't be arsed to reply. Malcolm is a name, XL is an application. Malcolm XL is a pun, and a pretty good one]
Anne Troy
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The Philadelphia branch of MrExcel would like to announce its official nomination for "Bubba".
Although "Mystery" would be a nice play on names. Oughtta be your license place, huh Bill?
Besides, I'm sure that the usual disclaimer applies:
"Employees and blah blah blah cannot participate blah blah blah."
It's just not fair.
Although "Mystery" would be a nice play on names. Oughtta be your license place, huh Bill?
Besides, I'm sure that the usual disclaimer applies:
"Employees and blah blah blah cannot participate blah blah blah."
It's just not fair.
My suggestion:
XLie (to rhymne with Annie, Shirley etc)
Motivation:
1) short
2) reminiscent of the abbreviated names that friends allow each other to use (viz Annie etc), and excel is our friend
3) sounds similar enough to excel, excellent, excelling etc to bring up associations with the various excel... words / concepts.
4) gender neutral
Paddy
This message was edited by PaddyD on 2002-07-11 22:00
XLie (to rhymne with Annie, Shirley etc)
Motivation:
1) short
2) reminiscent of the abbreviated names that friends allow each other to use (viz Annie etc), and excel is our friend
3) sounds similar enough to excel, excellent, excelling etc to bring up associations with the various excel... words / concepts.
4) gender neutral
Paddy
This message was edited by PaddyD on 2002-07-11 22:00
Steve Hartman
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Bubba has too much connotation of a deep south uneducated hick. I had a supervisor who called everyone, male or female, Bubba. He didn't have to remember names that way. He even named his dog Bubba.
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How about PiXL - it is a graphic, after all. 'Pi' has a nice mathematical, infinite connotation, and 'XL' speaks for itself.
i liked the suggestions 'BJ' and 'Malcolm XL' too.
i liked the suggestions 'BJ' and 'Malcolm XL' too.
Sorry to be yet another to rain on the "Bubba" parade but in the UK at the moment that would be right out.
Bubba is the nickname of Jade from the Big Brother house (for those that don't know it's a TV show where people live their life in front of the cameras for a few weeks).
Jade is quite possibly the most stupid cow on the planet, as the excerpts from conversations with the other housemates below prove...
Jade thinks peacocks see out of their feathers ...
Jade has amazed the other housemates by telling them she thought peacocks had eyes in their feathers.
They had been talking about pets when she made her latest gaffe.
Alex and PJ were even more flabbergasted than usual at Jade's precarious grasp of reality.
She said: "You see those things, don't think I'm being daft, but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?"
PJ and Alex soon realised she meant the "eyes" in the birds' colourful feathers.
PJ said: "Jade, come on, I know you're a bit dizzy but..."
Alex was more blunt, saying: "How can a f*****g peacock have eyes in their f*****g feathers?"
They explained some creatures had markings that looked like eyes to protect them from predators.
But Jade just said: "Imagine having eyes up your bum!"
Jade's previous howlers include thinking Cambridge was in London, East Anglia was a foreign country and Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse were real people.
Edit: Sorry - just realised her nickname is Babba, not Bubba. Doh! (feeling as thick as she is now!). It's probably still too close an association though!
This message was edited by AJ on 2002-07-12 04:20
Bubba is the nickname of Jade from the Big Brother house (for those that don't know it's a TV show where people live their life in front of the cameras for a few weeks).
Jade is quite possibly the most stupid cow on the planet, as the excerpts from conversations with the other housemates below prove...
Jade thinks peacocks see out of their feathers ...
Jade has amazed the other housemates by telling them she thought peacocks had eyes in their feathers.
They had been talking about pets when she made her latest gaffe.
Alex and PJ were even more flabbergasted than usual at Jade's precarious grasp of reality.
She said: "You see those things, don't think I'm being daft, but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?"
PJ and Alex soon realised she meant the "eyes" in the birds' colourful feathers.
PJ said: "Jade, come on, I know you're a bit dizzy but..."
Alex was more blunt, saying: "How can a f*****g peacock have eyes in their f*****g feathers?"
They explained some creatures had markings that looked like eyes to protect them from predators.
But Jade just said: "Imagine having eyes up your bum!"
Jade's previous howlers include thinking Cambridge was in London, East Anglia was a foreign country and Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse were real people.
Edit: Sorry - just realised her nickname is Babba, not Bubba. Doh! (feeling as thick as she is now!). It's probably still too close an association though!
This message was edited by AJ on 2002-07-12 04:20
