California: The Nickname
Aug. 19th, 2003 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaSo I got a very nice compliment today.
I posted a joke to rec.arts.sf.fandom, suggesting a Chris Berman-style nickname for the person I suspect is going to be California's next governor. (Chris Berman is a sportscaster who is remarkably clever in a lot of ways, but one of his trademarks is pun- and other wordplay-based nicknames for players, like Rick "See Ya Later" Aguilera or Jim "Two Sillouhettes on" DeShaies. There's a list of some of them over here.
So I suggested, Cruz "The Full" Bustamante.
In a follow-up article, Alan Winston said that I made him laugh 'til past the point at which it hurt. Which made me feel good, since everyone knows that the basis of comedy is suffering.
I decided to check Google to see if I was the first person to come up with this. I seem to be. But what I found really interesting is that Google has sold an advertisement tied to the word "bustamante": an ad for Peter Ueberroth for governor.
I posted a joke to rec.arts.sf.fandom, suggesting a Chris Berman-style nickname for the person I suspect is going to be California's next governor. (Chris Berman is a sportscaster who is remarkably clever in a lot of ways, but one of his trademarks is pun- and other wordplay-based nicknames for players, like Rick "See Ya Later" Aguilera or Jim "Two Sillouhettes on" DeShaies. There's a list of some of them over here.
So I suggested, Cruz "The Full" Bustamante.
In a follow-up article, Alan Winston said that I made him laugh 'til past the point at which it hurt. Which made me feel good, since everyone knows that the basis of comedy is suffering.
I decided to check Google to see if I was the first person to come up with this. I seem to be. But what I found really interesting is that Google has sold an advertisement tied to the word "bustamante": an ad for Peter Ueberroth for governor.
