team names & "-cat"

[Catherine Aman]

Did the "cat" moniker (and "jive cat" etc) come out of the age of bop?

Likewise, seems to me that age of dot-coms spawned surprising number of
-fish monikers: babblefish (or was it babelfish?), razorfish, etc (also: red
herring, phish).

IMO, "cat" connotes historical moment of self-perceived vitality & cool;
"fish" on other hand connotes otherworldliness and (perhaps)
digitally-induced alienation.

Of course all those "-fish" monikers might also have arisen from sheer
desperation. I wrote an article on KMPG Consulting's decision to rename
itself BearingPoint.

In reporting that learned how extraordinarily difficult it is for big corps
to find names that aren't already copyrighted in U.S. and/or somewhere else
in world where they have offices/do business.

It's just this "the decent names are all taken!" desperation that drove
PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting to dub itself Monday, of all things.

Anyone who missed the fun that Brit comedians had at expense of PwC should
check out:

http://www.introducingmonday.co.uk/

It's truly hilarious.



Catherine Aman
Staff reporter
American Lawyer Media
(212) 313-9205

> ----------
> From:         paulzjoh
> Sent:         Monday, February 24, 2003 6:21 PM
> Subject:      Re: team names
>
> Does Julliard have the Hepcats?
>
>
> > Odd that some patrician school rolling in wealthy benefactors hasn't
> come
> > up with a team called the Fatcats.
> >
> > --On Monday, February 24, 2003 2:33 PM -0800 Peter Richardson
> > <prichard at linfield.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > -cats seem to be all the rage throughout the land. Our team is the
> > > Wildcats, as are probably 2000 others. It's embarrassing to have our
> > > Wildcats play, say, the Wildcats from Central Washington. Personally,
> I
> > > think the Hubcats would be a fine remedy.
> > >
> > > PR
> > >
> > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hey, we're the Bobcats!  Ohio at least still has some.  And we have
> > >> snarling (statuary) bobcats all over campus--in addition to the usual
> > >> fuzzy, cuddly cheerleader ones, of course.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> **************************************************************************
> **
> >                                Peter A. McGraw
> >                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
> >                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu
> >
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