Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:39:36 -0500

From: "Margaret G. Lee -English" mlee[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CS.HAMPTONU.EDU

Subject: Re: newspaper names



How about "The Daily Mess" for The Daily Press and "The Daily

Regress" for The Daily Progress (both Virginia newspapers)?

Margaret Lee



On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, SETH SKLAREY wrote:



(from the Bong bulletin)



PEJORATIVES. Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: Charlotte Disturber,

Charlotte Perturber, NotServer and Blurber, reports Thompson

Allred (web480[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]charweb.org). It also shares a nickname with

the Portland Oregonian: The O or Big O.

-- The Hawaii Tribune Herald's (and Hawaii Sumo News') Hunter

Bishop (hunterb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]interpac.net) advises that yes, they are

sometimes the Hawaii Buffoon-Herald

-- The Brooklyn (N.Y.) Home Reporter and Brooklyn Spectator?

The Home Distorter and The Brooklyn Speculum or Brooklyn

Speculator.



the Pejorative Poster listing more than 120

"street" newspaper names ($3) and the Chagrin Falls Commercial

Scimitar Foreign Correspondent press card ($1.50) are available

for quick delivery. Place orders at BONG Center, 2517 Rugby Road,

Dayton, Ohio 45406. Prices include delivery in North America.



Happy to be a catalyst for change or even large bills, BONG Chief

Copyboy Charley Stough, Dayton Daily News, 45 S. Ludlow St., urges

all BONGers to participate in the democratic process and save

their receipts! E-mail copyboy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dma.org. Phone (513) 225-2445

after 3 p.m. eastern. Fax 225-2489. See the BONG Bull website at

http://www.au.com/bong/