"Intoonfada"

[sagehen]

>>On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:41 -0500, Laurence Horn typed:
>>
>>>  Not *my* coinage, but it did appear in yesterday's Yale Daily News,
>>>  and Google shows another couple hundred hits.  Any better monikers
>>>  around for it?
>>
>>There's the obvious "Cartoongate", and for one particular drawing,
>>"Bombohammed".
>>
>>Chris Waigl
>>well, they aren't caricatures, nor all of them cartoons
>
>And "Cartoongate", while obvious, is misguided, since there's no
>scandal-cum-cover-up involved, as far as I can tell.  Now given the
>initial suppression and the subsequent downplaying of Darth Cheney's
>little shoot-up down in Texas might have earned the sobriquet of
>Quailgate.  Oops, take it back: 10,400 ghits.  Now *that* makes some
>sort of sense.  But Cartoongate?  Boo.  And "Intoonfada" is too
>inelegant.  "Bombohammed"?  Too specific, and not great either.  The
>prize is still unclaimed.
>
>larry
>
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Looks like SOWD to me.
AM

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