dot-com wanes; eny, meny, miny, mo

[Albert E. Krahn]

 From Educause:

WHAT'S IN A NAME? THE FADING OF DOT-COM
The use of ".com," "e," and "i" in the names of Internet
companies appears to be waning, as these companies are
beginning to seek better credibility with consumers and investors
by dropping the use of such Web-identifiers.  Neil Cohen of
online business-developer Campsix says the leveraging of a
company's Web site address is no longer as important as
leveraging the Web itself.  Cohen predicts that the use of .com
or other identifiers in a company's name will become outdated
within the next half-decade.  InfoSpace, RedLadder, and Gameplay
are among the companies that recently dropped Web references from
their names.  Now that the novelty of dot-coms has worn off, the
fundamentals of branding and brand identity have become essential
once again, says Seth Siegal of brand consulting-agency The
Beanstalk Group. (USA Today, July 3 2000)
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Eny, meny, miny, mo

The rhyme at the end remained common in Milwaukee until at least the 1940s
and possibly even longer.
akra

BARREL OF MONKEYS
     What could be more fun than a barrel of monkeys?
      Perhaps it was inspired by a famous counting rhyme?  This wonderful
article is from the NEW YORK DISPATCH, 4 October 1885, pg. 2, col. 6:

_"COUNTING-OUT" RHYMES._
SOME OF THE THINGS WE KNEW WHEN LITTLE BOYS.
      H. Carrington Bolton, of Trinity College, contributes to the Boston
_Journal of Education_ the following specimens of "counting-out" rhymes
collected by him from children and by correspondence.
(...)
(The collection is quite incomplete.  What Western forty year old boy or girl
does not recognize the following:

      Intry, mintry, cutry corn.
      Apple seed and apple thorn,
Weir, brier, limber, lock, three geese in one flock,
      One flew East and one flew West,
      And one flew over the cuckoo's nest,
      One, two, three, out goes he.

      Dickery, dickery dock,
      The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one, the mouse ran down,
      Dickery, dickery dock.

      Monkey, monkey, barrel of beer,
      How many monkeys are there here?
      One, two, three, out goes he.

      The favorite in Milwaukee at the present time seems to be: "Eny, meny,
miny, mo, catch a nigger by the toe; if he hollers, let him go--eny, meny,
miny mo."  Doubtless the list could be indefinitely extended.--PECK'S SUN
MAN.)