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| The Ecphorizer |
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The Observatory Issue 8
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Tod Wicks |
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The other day I happened to drive past a building under construction in the middle of Silicon Valley and noticed that the contractor had erected a sign which proclaimed the building to be a new restaurant named "The Lion and Compass." Now, I have seen some interesting names of eateries in my time, like The Red Lion, The Cork and Cleaver and The Bloated Boar. There seems to be a whole genre of restaurant managers who feel that stringing together unrelated words will create a name which will be at the tip of everyone's tongue. These combinations usually include the names of animals, tools of the culinary art, the shipbuilding trade or winemaking, and occasionally a color.
This got the old gears turning as I sat at the next signal. Why not devise a table of words and offer it to prospective restaurateurs through which they can create clever and catchy names. Here follows a list of my suggestions. If anyone uses any of these words and turns them into a moneymaking operation, please contact my Financial Advisor to arrange royalty payments. To make any sense of the table below, one need only take a word from any column and combine it with a word from any other column by separating the two with the symbol " 'n," as in "Rack 'n Pinion." To be really clever, add your favorite color.
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Rail
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Monkey
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Hound
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Dog
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Mutt
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Lion
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Rabbit
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Hatchet
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Pig
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Ship
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Bull
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Stag
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Head
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Gut
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Chopstick
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Tit
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Pot
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Of course, for the computer nuts who expand their horizons beyond hacking to open digital delis, the list might be like this:
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Drive
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Floppy
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Byte
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Monitor
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Modem
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Nibble
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Garbage
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Dump
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Naturally, this could be done for other specialties and ethnic persuasions. Interesting lists from readers will result in glory through publication. The cleverest will have a month added to his/her subscription to THE ECPHORIZER. . 
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| Tod Wicks |
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