Porky miracle

Posted Mar 30, 2012 23:34 UTC (Fri) by gmaxwell (guest, #30048)
In reply to: Porky miracle by man_ls
Parent article: Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious

Indeed, it's a stupid name— but they're almost all stupid. Zod? Moonshine? Werewolf? Sulphur? But all code names are. Leopard? Lion? ... I think the complaints are mostly that its more stupid than typical, not that its stupid.

I think it loses points beyond the average for being adjective-noun and for referencing food, or at least I think the ubuntu names which also have the adjective-noun form are more stupid than typical Fedora names "Pretentious Porcupine" or whatever (though less bad than Beefy Miracle) where I've never thought the Apple animal-enabled codenames to be unusually stupid. (Also, I suppose for being gratuitously skeevy for the vegetarians and Hindus) But I admit I'm totally waving my hands here and trying to rationalize what really is just a gut impression.

…it probably didn't help that I've seen the old beefy miracle fudcon photographs (mostly drunk looking people hanging on a person in a hotdog suit), along with the silly artwork, and gibbering foolishness about "His Meatiness's scriptures", all embarrassing on their own— at least if used as anything to represent Fedora— independent of the name.

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Porky miracle

Posted Mar 30, 2012 23:42 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Yeah, it's all embarrassing and the jokes in the announcement are not helping either. But this is offensive at a lower level which borders the subconscious -- I don't know for others, but for me it is really the cognitive dissonance that makes it.

Imagine a peanut butter sandwich and someone speaking about "Cheesy Miracle". Or a piece of corn bread and "Wheaty Miracle". Argh! My inner ears hurt just imagining it.

Now excuse me, I am going back to dress as a turkey to promote KFC.