Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Or the battle will be hotter, and you won't get no supper


Ages ago in Ohio, a kid in my neighborhood got a pet rabbit that was slinky and black -- so he named it Slink-ack. Now that kid's all grown up and, apparently, working as a branding consultant for Pfizer.

Anyway, I'm sure you've heard that the first peck has been officially approved, and has been given a name that makes Humpty Dumpty with his portmanteau look like an amateur -- an unpronounceable, impossible-to-remember string of letters that was apparently intended to evoke corvid, mRNA, immunity, community, comorbidity, Comintern, and covfefe.

And you know what that means? It means we get to rebrand "vaccine hesitancy" as


Of course even a prophetic musician like Bob can't be expected to have predicted some made-up nonsense name almost 50 years in advance with any precision -- but I think Congo-Bongo-Natty comes impressively close!

So roll up your sleeve and take your Safe-n-Effective medicine, kids, or else you know what comes next: That's right, more dread-locks in Babylon!

In the meantime, enjoy a little music from a more human time.

2 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

From the headline I guessed this would be more about beetles battling beetles in a hotter puddle battle; or some such...

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Bruce, you may have been the first person in history to confuse Bob Marley with Dr. Seuss!

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