Help us Name the Beast

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Posted on Wed, Nov 18th, 2009 - 10:18 am by Bryan Allain

I’m currently working on a project with a few other really talented, really funny blokes. We’re going to be putting something together that will hopefully make you laugh until you cry, vomit, come within inches of losing your life, and then return to 100% health, only stronger and more resistant to nomadic strains of H1N1.

It will have lots of original content, will redefine the terms “silly” and “trivial humor”, and will be published a few times a year. We also hope it will raise awareness and a few bucks for important causes. We’d tell you more, but if we did we would have to kill you and make it look like a boating accident. And then we’d run the risk of leaving behind evidence that would find us being fingered as the prime suspect on an episode of 48 Hours Mystery 5 years from now, and we don’t want that.

Everything is falling into place with this beast except for one thing: the name. We’ve got a couple decent ideas that we’re okay going with if we have to, but we feel like there’s gotta be something better out there.

That’s where you come in. Leave us a name idea (or a couple name ideas) and if we choose yours, you will be given fame, fleeting happiness, and a faster metabolism. You will also receive some space in the initial edition of the beast to share whatever it is you want to share with the rest of humanity.

We realize you don’t have a lot of information to go on in offering name suggestions, but you’ve got enough. It will probably be funny, it will probably be quarterly, it will probably support various charities, and it will probably be the thing Bono has been looking for all these years. Or not.

Either way, the suggestion box is open.

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  1. Jason Boyett says:

    I propose calling it FQ. It stands for “Funny Quarterly.” But it’s dirty-sounding when you say it out loud, and that makes it genius.

  2. melanie says:

    How about “Random Nonsense”? Hmm, still thinking.

  3. cathy says:

    Conspiracy Theories,You Decide…this guarantees every word will be read and talked about online for months to come as people look for the real meaning of what you are saying :)

  4. Nathan says:

    Yeah, you’re right, definitely not much to go on here, but I’ll throw out a few off the top of my head…

    - The Quarterly Crap or Quarterly Comedic Crap or some variation of the two
    - The Trivial Tribune, eh…
    - Stupid Crap The Amish Do
    - Franks & Beans: A Quarterly Masterpiece

  5. @mattdevries says:

    “…Better than Cats” (from the tagline, “I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!”

  6. Lacey says:

    Humor Snobs
    the beast
    Is This Funny?
    Misc. &
    More Than Just Witty
    God Made Me Funny

  7. Dusty says:

    I’ll do here what I did on Tyler’s blog: Naming via wikipedia’s Random Article link. And the name is:

    Puerto Rico at the 1976 Summer Olympics

    That’s a little long, so let’s try this again:

    Youssef Elbassri

    Okay. I’m sticking with Youssef.

  8. Sarah says:

    “Humor Me.” (my first choice)
    “Laugh Track”
    “The Funny Bone” (or “Funny Bones”)

  9. chris miller says:

    “the craic” (pronounced the crack) an irish expression good wikipedia article on it.

  10. Lance says:

    “Poop”

    …c’mon think about it…a quarterly article called Poop…thats freekin hilarious…

  11. jennybek says:

    Bestiality — wait. Nevermind

  12. bman says:

    Information to Make Your Eyes Bleed
    Flaming Bag of Pooh
    Comedic Collective
    The Beast
    Monsters Under Your Bed

    This could go on and on…

  13. Zac says:

    Jokes for Folks
    Hilarity for Charity
    Funny indeed for folks in need
    Cure the bore for the poor

  14. buddy watts says:

    -Beast of Burden
    -Deprived Beast
    -Needy B
    -Disadvantaged Beast
    -Benevolent Beast
    -Monster of More
    -Caring Critter
    -Comedic Consumption
    -Helpful Humorist
    -Stand
    -Comedic Justice

  15. Michael Grubbs says:

    The UNPub.

    You can really make the U N stand for anything you like, but it gives it a play on words.


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