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Empty Glass on a Coaster

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:18:59 -0700

This tweet by Twitter user @DDDBU is awesome:

My mother sees the glass as half empty. And it better damn well be on a coaster.

Mindsigh

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:43:29 -0600

I came across a blog today with a great name: Mindsigh.

Like “mind’s eye.”

Like a Virgin

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:43:46 -0600

I heard a commercial the other day for Virgin America airlines. The company positions itself as an airline that does things differently, and its tagline reflects that ethos:

A Breath of Fresh Airline

The genius of this tagline lies in the implied understanding that everyone hates airlines. Airlines are seen as stuffy and stiff, and this tagline directly addresses and erases that stereotype. Brilliant.

Like the Internet, Only...

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:36:30 -0600

There’s this magazine called The Printed Blog. It is, in its own words, a collection of “The best of the web, picked by editors you know and love, delivered to you in a beautiful print magazine for only $24 a year.”

Kind of a neat idea, right? But the best part is their tagline:

Like the Internet. Only Flammable

What the...?

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:31:06 -0600

So there’s this Vietnamese noodle dish called pho. It’s pronounced like “fun” without the -n.

When I was driving around near my sister’s place in Seattle a couple months ago, I saw what is possibly the greatest restaurant name ever. It’s a Vietnamese restaurant called…

What the Pho!

Here’s the restaurant’s website.

Pot Holder

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:33:05 -0600

I love it when a word or phrase can have entirely different meanings depending on how you look at it. And while I don’t endorse illegal drug use, “pot holder” is a great example of that it’s-all-about-perspective thing.

The little tag in the photo below has a clever little tagline, too:

The perfect way to handle all of your baked goods.

Media Decoder

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:33:05 -0600

I stumbled across the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog today. It’s a blog about the media industry. I really like its tagline:

Behind the Screens, Between the Lines

It tells you exactly what the blog is all about—reporting and interpreting what’s going on int he media world. Super clever.

Spazzstick

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:31:06 -0600

I just ran across Spazzstick, the caffeinated lip balm. Yes. Caffeinated lip balm.

This gets my vote for best-named beauty product ever.

It was invented by a cop who needed to keep his lips from chapping on those long night shifts.

Tsarbucks and More on The Simpsons

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:33:00 -0600

In the first episode (“The Falcon and the D’Ohman”) of season 23 (23!) of The Simpsons, there’s some great wordplay. Homer has been kidnapped by Ukrainian mobsters and is being held captive in Springfield’s “Little Ukraine” district. As his rescuer walks down the streets of Little Ukraine, he notices some interesting stores…

The guy even quips:

I’d take a moment to enjoy those store names if I didn’t have a job to do.

One Night Stand

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:07:06 -0600

From a tweet I saw a while back:

I had this one night stand, and the next morning I felt so guilty I bought another one for the other side of the bed.

The New Kindle Is on Fire

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:06:05 -0600

Amazon.com announced it’s Kindle Fire tablet last week. There were a bunch of fire-related headlines floating around (it’s almost too easy with a name like that), but I thought this was one of the better ones [from ksl.com]:

The one-line description is even better, though, with the untouchable-touchscreen wordplay.

A Wells Fargo Epiphany

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:01:05 -0600

Today I was listening to the radio in my car. A commercial for Wells Fargo came on. I have no idea what the commercial was actually for, but I remember the last line. The voiceover guy said the company’s tagline, which is

Together we’ll go far.

I’m a Wells Fargo customer and have probably heard this a bunch of times. But today, a few seconds after I heard it, it hit me.

We’ll Go Far

Wells Far Go

Wow. When I realized how brilliant that was, my jaw dropped.

Well played, Wells Fargo. Well played.

A Brilliant Business Name

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:49:38 -0600

I ran across a pretty amazing business name the other day. The company is Lowercase Capital (capital as in the economic term). Get it? … lowercase… CAPITAL…

Brilliant. Here’s their website.

The Man-Boob Tube

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:01:06 -0600

Ok, so today’s tidbit is less “brilliant” and more… funny. But it’s still good. It comes from an article on Yahoo Health called The 7 Laws of Leanness. One of the 7 “laws” is “Lean people watch less TV.” The opening line to that section reads

Instead of calling [TV] the boob tube, maybe we should call it the man-boob tube.

2-for-1: Kind of Cheesy, but Kind of Awesome

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:01:05 -0600

Both of these today are pun-based and are pretty cheesy (or corny, if you’re a vegan), but hopefully they’ll make you smile either in a I-can’t-believe-how-lame-that-is sort of way, or a OK-I-actually-think-that’s-pretty-clever sort of way.

1. While I was driving on the backroads of the Utah/Wyoming border a few days ago, I saw a big dumpster in front of someone’s house as they were renovating. The name of the dumpster company? Humpty Dumpster.

2. Two words: Albeart Einstein:

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More Suspension Than...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:31:05 -0600

Last week I picked up Bike Snob when it was the Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. In one part, the author is talking about the range of riders that fall within the “mountain biker” category:

These range from the Lycra-clad, smooth-shaven cross-country racers… all the way to the baggy-shorted, hairy-legged Freeriders who “session” on bikes with more suspension than an unruly high school student.

Keith Richards on Quitting Cold Turkey

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:31:05 -0600

I’m currently reading the autobiography of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, titled Life. The man definitely has a unique way of saying things. Here’s one of my favorite passages, when he’s talking about his roller coaster ride of doing drugs and then trying to get clean (quitting cold turkey), only to do more drugs, and so on.

I’ve been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.

Brand Spanking New Porn Site

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:30:05 -0600

There’s a new domain name extension in town. You’ve heard of .com, .net, .org, .tv, and so on. Well, .xxx just joined the club. I recently read an article on TechDirt about how PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) snapped up the peta.xxx domain name and plans to use it for an animal cruelness and pornography website. Yes, I’m serious.

Anyway, here’s how TechDirt opened the article:

Of all the entities looking to take advantage of the brand (dare I say, “spanking?”) new .xxx TLD, I would imagine that most of us would have put PETA somewhere toward the bottom of the list.

Brand spanking new porn site, eh?

Fishermen Reeling

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:31:05 -0600

Ok, so this is kind of corny and has probably been used a billion times before, but it’s still good.

This is a screenshot of one of the news items on Yahoo’s front page:

Feeling the Heat from a Blistering Newspaper Article

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:30:06 -0600

This is the opening sentence from a blog post on TechFlash:

Feeling the heat from a blistering newspaper article that quoted Amazon.com workers complaining about excessive heat inside a Pennsylvania warehouse, Amazon has distributed bandanas and cooling vests to cool off the workers.

Great wordplay.