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/

>