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The Shack goes the way of The Hut

So while Pizza Hut is starting to call themselves The Hut, Radio Shack is now toying with the idea of The Shack. Is it just me, or is this slowly starting to spiral out of control? Let’s take bets on when Burger King becomes The King, Wal-Mart becomes The Mart and Safeway and Subway are…

Rhode Island threatens to change its name.

by Danny Altman, on location in New England There are very few people outside of the state commonly known as Rhode Island who know that the state’s real name for the last 372 years has been Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. For the past few years, there has been a movement afoot in Rhode Island…

Naming the pandemic: the plot thickens

Yesterday we suggested that the “swine flu” was not properly named. Well it seems that a lot of experts agree with us but they don’t necessarily agree with each other. In a New York Times story headlined “The Naming of Swine Flu, a Curious Matter” it turns out that we were correct that this is…

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