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Name watching at Uwajimaya

Posted in Bad Names, Names in the Wild, Peculiar, Product Names, Seattle Interest on August 14th, 2009 9 Comments »

A fun way to spend a rainy hour in Seattle is to browse in Uwajimaya, a huge Asian supermarket in the International District (which locals call “the ID”). There you can see products that, from a mainland American point of view (at least this mainland American point of view), are pretty exotic. Things like durian-flavored [...]

Meet Nordy, the plush toy designed by Wittgenstein!

Posted in News, Peculiar on June 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »

Not so long ago, The Name Inspector’s younger son got his first pair of shoes at Nordstrom. As a little lagniappe, he also got a plush toy named Nordy, whose head is shown on the right above. This is definitely The Name Inspector’s favorite plush toy inspired by a sketch by a famous philosopher of [...]