Comments on: YouTube http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/ Tells you what makes names tick. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:45:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: The Name Inspector http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-51 The Name Inspector Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:01:54 +0000 http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-51 Thanks for those great observations. I don't think you're over-thinking the tube thing at all. I completely agree that there's something creepy about them, and that makes Tubes a really dubious name for any food product. But somehow especially yogurt. Maybe because it's goopy and contains bacteria. Thanks for those great observations.

I don’t think you’re over-thinking the tube thing at all. I completely agree that there’s something creepy about them, and that makes Tubes a really dubious name for any food product. But somehow especially yogurt. Maybe because it’s goopy and contains bacteria.

]]> By: Robert Labossiere http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-50 Robert Labossiere Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:09:51 +0000 http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-50 And don't forget "tubular", an expression of all things cool. It's also like the people are the tube inside the wheel of the WWW. My personal childhood experience with inner tubes was awesome. Not only did we use farm tractor inner tubes in the water, but we actually curled up inside them and rolled down hills. Now that was tubular! (Anyone posted a YouTube video of that yet?) And while people love round things generally for their association with wholeness, completeness, calm, stasis, tubes can be a little bit creepy. Think extrusion. There's a new yogurt drink called Tubes, which is treading dangerous ground I think, associating the drink with the intestinal track... but perhaps I'm over-thinking it. And don’t forget “tubular”, an expression of all things cool.

It’s also like the people are the tube inside the wheel of the http://WWW. My personal childhood experience with inner tubes was awesome. Not only did we use farm tractor inner tubes in the water, but we actually curled up inside them and rolled down hills. Now that was tubular! (Anyone posted a YouTube video of that yet?)

And while people love round things generally for their association with wholeness, completeness, calm, stasis, tubes can be a little bit creepy. Think extrusion. There’s a new yogurt drink called Tubes, which is treading dangerous ground I think, associating the drink with the intestinal track… but perhaps I’m over-thinking it.

]]> By: The Name Inspector » Blog Archive » The meanings of the name Digg http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-30 The Name Inspector » Blog Archive » The meanings of the name Digg Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:22:26 +0000 http://www.thenameinspector.com/youtube/#comment-30 [...] Aside from the meanings based on the burying/unearthing metaphor, there is of course the groovy 1960s-70s meaning. You dig? This meaning, similar to that of grok, is something like ‘behold and appreciate’, or sometimes just ‘like a lot’. When you vote for a story on Digg, you’re saying that you dig (like) it, and are asking others to dig (behold and appreciate) it. As with the names YouTube and Biznik, there seems to be an ironic evocation of bygone days in this name. The Name Inspector detects a trend here. [...] […] Aside from the meanings based on the burying/unearthing metaphor, there is of course the groovy 1960s-70s meaning. You dig? This meaning, similar to that of grok, is something like ‘behold and appreciate’, or sometimes just ‘like a lot’. When you vote for a story on Digg, you’re saying that you dig (like) it, and are asking others to dig (behold and appreciate) it. As with the names YouTube and Biznik, there seems to be an ironic evocation of bygone days in this name. The Name Inspector detects a trend here. […]

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