Igor's Guide to find the perfect name for your product(igorinternational.com)
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Igor's Guide to find the perfect name for your product
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Kodak founder George Eastman was once asked about the origin of the name of his camera. "Philologically, the word 'Kodak' is as meaningless as a child's first 'goo,'" he explained. "Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask!" [http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=14554]
Btw, we named our site "kakool" for the same reason Eastman called his company Kodak - lots of K's, which comedians agree are funny letters :)
From: http://classic2.reference.com/browse/wiki/Inherently_funny_w...:
In Neil Simon's play The Sunshine Boys, a character says, "Words with a k in it are funny. Alka-Seltzer is funny. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny. All with a k. Ls are not funny. Ms are not funny."
# In an article in the New Yorker published in 1936, H. L. Mencken argues that "k words" are funny. "K, for some occult reason, has always appealed to the oafish risibles of the American plain people, and its presence in the names of many ... places has helped to make them joke towns ... for example, Kankakee, Kalamazoo, Hoboken, Hohokus, Yonkers, Squeedunk, "Stinktown" and Brooklyn." # The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Outrageous Okona" features Joe Piscopo as a comedian who, in attempting to teach the android Data the concept of humor, refers to words ending in a k as funny. # The Monty Python sketch "Are You Embarrassed Easily?" includes a list of alternately ordinary and humorous words: shoe, megaphone, grunties, Wankel rotary engine, tits, winkle, and vibraphone. # In The Simpsons:
In the episode "Homie the Clown", drawing from W. C. Fields, Krusty the Clown tells Homer during a lesson at his clown college: "Memorize these funny place names: Walla Walla, Keokuk, Cucamonga, Seattle." Upon hearing the word "Seattle", Homer bursts into laughter...