team names & "-cat"

[paulzjoh]

Without looking it up wasn't it:
He's hep
Hepcat
Jive (but more as a derogatory, "don't jive me man")
Hip and Hipster
You could be hip to the jive, but no one was ever hip to the Bop, was anyone
ever called a bopster?
Right after Bop came Re-Bop

Slim Gaillard knew but he only told Lord Buckley.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Aman" <caman at AMLAW.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: team names & "-cat"


> 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
> > >
> >
> >
>