[Ads-l] "doggles"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/22/2015 08:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Featured in a story on tonight's NBC News.  Yup, goggles for dogs, 
>apparently all the rage: you retire and ride around the country on 
>your chopper, with your faithful canine companion in the side-car 
>wearing doggles.  I didn't realize from the episode that it's a 
>proprietary name, but evidently it is: 
>http://shop.doggles.com/dog/eyewear.  Still, a more esthetic blend 
>to my ear than "deflatriot", "Belicheat", "Cheatriots", or what have 
>you.   But then again I'm a New Englander, so maybe not entirely objective.
>
>Another coinage or two along the way on this relatively original 
>take on the "scandal":
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421782837&x-yt-cl=84359240&v=vd3D2gsPUR0
>
>As for "doggles", I'm looking forward to the first computers 
>(lab-tops?) on which dogs will be able to access the internet, using 
>the patented fetch engine Doogle.  (And of course there's already 
>Spotify for the musical mutts.)

Will we soon see Google virtual reality doggles?

Joel


>LH
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>On Jan 22, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > And perhaps SPNOTY (Sports Proper Noun of the Year) -- 
> "Deflatriot."  The definition probably hasn't quite settle down yet 
> -- but I sense something like "Person in the New England Patriots' 
> organization who either performed, requested, ordered, or was aware 
> of deflation of game footballs," as in the alleged NY Daily News's 
> "Deflatriots CHATED!" It also occurs (sometimes uncapitalized) as 
> an attributive adjective; once as a verb ("Deflatriot fans gonna 
> deflatriot"); and once with capitals for both D and F.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 1/19/2015 07:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> I was watching the network news and poised to predict to the 
> list the rise of a new early WOTY candidate, "deflate(-)gate", but 
> then I thought of googling first, and sure enough it's all over the 
> web already.  Gotta work on that trigger finger!
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