Name the snail !

Bard

'lo folks... this thread is on a bit of a lighter note than most... IrelandOffline's logo now incorporates our new snail mascot, as originally suggested by Dave Long... (NICE ONE DAVE) ... and I'm now looking for suggestions for a name for the snail

(Keep it clean and non-libellous... obviously !)

It now can be seen in our main logo on the irelandoffline.com web site.

Also added to the site (by the way) is the announcement about the upcoming seminar. (see http://www.scaryeire.com/www.irelandoffline.com/NewsArticle.asp?id=120801 for more).

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

what about eddy,

Seriosuly a name like Flatrate, or deadliner
bandwidth,

awh dahamsta got to slag off £ircon

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dahamsta

Obvious: Slowcoach
B1tchy: Eircom
Really B1tchy: Alfie

adam

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LegacyUser

why dont you call it eire and get it over with, personaly i think its well suited,

instead of a celtic tiger and depressed snail,

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Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gladiator:

awh dahamsta got to slag off £ircon
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He slagged them off by insinuation, not with direct name-calling.

I want a name for the snail- nothing else.

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

well what about eire then, thats a name with a meaning, or taken after the eircom suggestion incumbent

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gladiator:
well what about eire then, thats a name with a meaning
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erm... yeah, but its meaning is "Ireland".

Something smart-as$ed that hints at "bloody slow access" would be better, methinks

LegacyUser

The Celtic Snail

LegacyUser

Crawlie

LegacyUser

you see the problem is, i wouldnt know how to be a smart ar$e
i thought it was a pretty good symbol of how slow ireland as a whole is to move ito the internet age,

What about ehub, goverment allways talking about this ehub we have, calling a snail an ehub could show how how slow that the dream of an internet ireland is coming

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LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by hmmm:
The Celtic Snail</font>

Like it

Martin

Bard

btw... I'd suggest sticking with the K.I.S.S. rule when making a suggestion (Keep it simple, stupid)...

I don't mean to just shoot down your suggestions every time, Gladiator- but "ehub" is a bit too techie and not everyone is going to understand. In the words of a hippy from The Simpsons, "Simplify, maaan!!!"

I dunno- I'm not bowled over by any suggestions yet... but then again, I can't think of a good one myself right now...

Here he is, btw:

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

Is it just me, or does he look sad?

LegacyUser

And we could name him "The Internet in Ireland", but that would probably be a bit too long...

LegacyUser

Here's a good one...

Name it Alfie ( NO!!! don't give it a second name, and definitely not the one you think of right now....)

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Urban Weigl:
Is it just me, or does he look sad?</font>

'course he does!

Shur jayzuz... look at the state of the 'net in Ireland!

LegacyUser

progress is an idea,

and yea hes sad, we discussed this before and its a pretty good idea, hes handle going to be happy on 56k

LegacyUser

NoNet
SlowMo

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Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Stimpy:
SlowMo</font>

Simple, catchy and to the point. I like.

K

LegacyUser

SloMo 's not bad,
maybe if it was SloMoe we could incorporate the slow characteristics of a snail w/ the human element... Moe being short for Maurice !?

Despite this, everyone better keep them coming- I'm having a bit of a no-brainer day !!

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LegacyUser

What about MEN:

M = Martin
E = Elana
N = Niall

Just kidding folks

Mick.

LegacyUser

What about 'Bertie'? Since his namesake is so proud of this 'e-commerce hub' nation were living in.. its only fitting

LegacyUser

SlowsurfAfflictedSnail (SAS),gungho type stuff

LegacyUser

Or just SurfAffectedSnail..same theme

LegacyUser

ambrose!! - the snail ..hmmmmm

LegacyUser

Or Sad(or Slow) Access Snail...i like the sas theme!!

LegacyUser

SAS snail rampages through the network fixing limited access where it attempts to slip through..go sas go!!

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by obewan:
What about MEN:

M = Martin
E = Elana
N = Niall

Just kidding folks

Mick.</font>

Well I did hear them say Elana was now "one of the lads" but that's... ahh nevermind

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

Sluggish Mac Rollout ... LOL

LegacyUser

I like Progress, tis very apt.

Marcus.

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Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pragmatica:
Sluggish Mac Rollout ... LOL</font>

wasnt the mac rolled out very quickly?

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Come on people ... INSPIRE me!

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
Come on people ... INSPIRE me!</font>

Emmm,.............'Gluey'

Hey! Its late, leave me alone. Personally I'd actually go for 'Alfie'.

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LegacyUser

Perhaps a caricature of toothless, decrepid tiger named perhaps Etain or so could be justified?

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Rob.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Bard

I don't think naming it after any personality from Eircom, Esat, ODTR, etc. is even slightly likely.

Use your imaginations people!

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

Litteral Today arn't we

"Sluggish Mc Cable" then ?

Errr .. I dont know! ... What about?

Seán van Drink-a-lot ...

Thats a joke BTW ...

Or maybe just plain old "Bill" or "Bill Price" or "Pricey Billing" or "Paddy Broadband" or "Mr. L. LU" ..

LegacyUser

Could you give him an address too ?

56 Kilobaud
Connection Still
Lower Broadband Road
Co. Offly Expensive
Ireland

LegacyUser

Who sez it had to be a boy?

What about Una (Unmetered Net Access)

Although Una doesn't sound great, it has a nice theme

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LegacyUser

ESCARGO

Everyone
Should
Care
About
Realising
Good
Online-service


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LegacyUser

SLUG

Shagoff

with your

Line

Up Grade

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LegacyUser

SloMo is the best one so far, its an apt name for a mascot and gets the point across.

Its got my vote.

LegacyUser

what about idea bast@rd, it has a ring to it

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Snaga:
Its got my vote.</font>

I'm lookin' for suggestions, not votes It won't be decided by a vote...

I like SloMo anyway...

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

dahamsta

I like SloMo too. I'd prefer Alfie, but I'm willing to settle for SloMo..

adam

LegacyUser

I tried to post these last night but it seems they didn't get through.
SlowCom OR Slowcomm
Sloocom OR SlooComm

LegacyUser

Seeing as ALL this, and every single thing that has happened is down to Esat's original horrific treatment of us all, why not call it "PeEsat" ?? :-)

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by angryuser:
Seeing as ALL this, and every single thing that has happened is down to Esat's original horrific treatment of us all, why not call it "PeEsat" ?? :-)</font>

- because "every single thing that has happened" isn't down to Esat for one thing... and also because I don't want to give it a name that is so speficic, concentrating on just one of corporate entities involved.

It *is* "only a snail" - but I'm not giving it a potentially libellous name, 'k?

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

LegacyUser

How about netty!..or you could spell it net.ie just a daft thought

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~Z~

LegacyUser

Not bad ~zes~ , but we'd probaly have to acquire the domain name!!

"www.net.ie" is currently unassigned- I checked it on the domainregistry.ie "whois" search. We could always have net.ie redirected to irelandoffline.com

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80p.
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