Urban Legends -- The Pajiba Way
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Comment Diversions | Comments (67)
Tonight’s diversion comes from one of the more regular Eloquents, the lovable bucdaddy. And I like the idea — it’s sort of the in the vein of what we’ve done to poor Joshua Jackson (R.I.P.). Inspired by the name Neveah (is that a real name?), here’s what bucdaddy wrote:
“I was reading somewhere that the horrid Nevaeh is now one of the most popular baby names, and I thought: Wouldn’t it be great if someone started a rumor that Nevaeh was the name of a Satanic cult whose symbol is the upside-down cross (Heaven backwards, upside-down cross, they like the symmetry) and whose members chant “Nevaeh” to conjure the devil?
“Well, I’m starting that rumor. And I invite my fellow Pajiblets to start their own rumors, fables, urban legends, old wives’ tales etc. Bonus points if it’s designed to piss off a demographic group.”
This one is fairly open-ended and requires a great bit of creativity on your parts, something that might be difficult for one of these evening diversions, given the time of night (at least here on the East Coast). But, I’ll check out the results and I’ll see if I can work a few of the rumors and/or legends into the Pajiba mythology over the coming weeks. You folks, if anything, are always a solid source of inspiration. Cockwallets.
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Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 18, 2009 8:50 PM
Jerry West is known as "The Logo" because his silhouette is the official NBA trademark. But he was not the original NBA logo. Originally, that silhouette was Ossie Schectman, one of the original New York Knicks when the team first took the court in 1946 and the man who scored the NBA's first field goal. The logo was later changed to West after the NBA tried to scrub itself of most of the early contributions of Jewish players. When debating changing the logo, Celtics patriarch Red Auerbach was reported to have said, "I'd sooner have a coon on the logo than a kike." The logo was changed, Schectman is nearly forgotten and Auerbach won 10 championships.