Comments on: The Name Game http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/02/03/the-name-game-3/ Crafting Words with Impact Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:18:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Eugene Finerman http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/02/03/the-name-game-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1966 Eugene Finerman Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:45:36 +0000 http://finermanworks.com/?p=3377#comment-1966 Michael, Regarding the Preppie Supreme, I think that history will remember George Herbert Walker Bush with this heartfelt title: Wish He Had Mumps. Eugene Michael,

Regarding the Preppie Supreme, I think that history will remember George Herbert Walker Bush with this heartfelt title: Wish He Had Mumps.

Eugene

]]> By: Michael http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/02/03/the-name-game-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1963 Michael Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:03:11 +0000 http://finermanworks.com/?p=3377#comment-1963 I think the Presidential naming efforts so far have ignored the brand management aspects (or irony) of naming Hirohito and his reign Enlightened Peace. Hirohito ascended to the throne during a period (the 1920s) best remembered in Japan for political assssinations (not of the merely reputational variety) and debates between factions wishing to expand the Empire by attacking to the North (the Kodoha wanted to take on Russia) or the South (the Toseiha thought China the better target). Ensuing examples of enlightened peace included the invasion of Manchuria, the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the placid Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and impressively sized naval battles in the aptly named Pacific Ocean. In that spirit I give you: Enlightened Justice, Over-flowing Creativity, Everlasting Strength, Deep Compassion, (I'll come back to Bush 41), Admirable Self-Restraint, and Deep Reflection. I don't believe our current President can be aptly named yet. The Greeks believed that no man could truly be called happy until he died and his entire story known. Likewise, a President can't be aptly named until he's gone from being a lame duck to a dead duck. And Bush 41? He already gave us two great ironic monickers himself: The Environmental President and the Education President. I think the Presidential naming efforts so far have ignored the brand management aspects (or irony) of naming Hirohito and his reign Enlightened Peace. Hirohito ascended to the throne during a period (the 1920s) best remembered in Japan for political assssinations (not of the merely reputational variety) and debates between factions wishing to expand the Empire by attacking to the North (the Kodoha wanted to take on Russia) or the South (the Toseiha thought China the better target). Ensuing examples of enlightened peace included the invasion of Manchuria, the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the placid Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and impressively sized naval battles in the aptly named Pacific Ocean.

In that spirit I give you: Enlightened Justice, Over-flowing Creativity, Everlasting Strength, Deep Compassion, (I’ll come back to Bush 41), Admirable Self-Restraint, and Deep Reflection. I don’t believe our current President can be aptly named yet. The Greeks believed that no man could truly be called happy until he died and his entire story known. Likewise, a President can’t be aptly named until he’s gone from being a lame duck to a dead duck.

And Bush 41? He already gave us two great ironic monickers himself: The Environmental President and the Education President.

]]> By: Eugene Finerman http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/02/03/the-name-game-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 Eugene Finerman Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:33:34 +0000 http://finermanworks.com/?p=3377#comment-1962 Dear Bob, 143th? Ouch. Yes, getting the math right I sacrificed the grammar. You can't expect me to manage both! The Japanese imperial reigns only have a one word title, so I was adhering to that rule. Otherwise, I might designated the last eight administrations as President Lecter, Well-Meaning Bumbler, Well-Meaning Incompetent, Fatuous Charmer, Noblesse No-Oblige, Sexy Sociopath, Smirking Catastrophe, and Hopeful Cleanup. Eugene Dear Bob,

143th? Ouch. Yes, getting the math right I sacrificed the grammar. You can’t expect me to manage both!

The Japanese imperial reigns only have a one word title, so I was adhering to that rule. Otherwise, I might designated the last eight administrations as President Lecter, Well-Meaning Bumbler, Well-Meaning Incompetent, Fatuous Charmer, Noblesse No-Oblige, Sexy Sociopath, Smirking Catastrophe, and Hopeful Cleanup.

Eugene

]]> By: Bob Kincaid http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/02/03/the-name-game-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1961 Bob Kincaid Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:51:49 +0000 http://finermanworks.com/?p=3377#comment-1961 Well-named, Eugene, although I prefer the Google name for the last administration: "Miserable Failure." Maybe that's the future: google search terms as the names of administrations. As for Carter, I also like "HeTriedToTellUs" for his energy speech, in which, had we followed it, lay the seeds of NOT enduring so much of what's transpired in the presidencies since. "Glasnost?" Nah. I like "Doddering Jingoism" better. Or perhaps "October Surprise." And what gives with "143th"? If it was anyone but you, Eugene, I'd blow past it, but I know you take editorial notes well and graciously. B-T-W: I've embarked on reading a historical novel of some promise. "The Memoirs of Hadrian." So far, it's a good, if brooding read. Well-named, Eugene, although I prefer the Google name for the last administration: “Miserable Failure.” Maybe that’s the future: google search terms as the names of administrations. As for Carter, I also like “HeTriedToTellUs” for his energy speech, in which, had we followed it, lay the seeds of NOT enduring so much of what’s transpired in the presidencies since.

“Glasnost?” Nah. I like “Doddering Jingoism” better. Or perhaps “October Surprise.”

And what gives with “143th”? If it was anyone but you, Eugene, I’d blow past it, but I know you take editorial notes well and graciously.

B-T-W: I’ve embarked on reading a historical novel of some promise. “The Memoirs of Hadrian.” So far, it’s a good, if brooding read.

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