#61674
03/19/2002 12:25 PM
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I currently work for the University's College of Continuing Education (aka CCE), and last week in my fevered state, I had a light bulb moment. That acronym is just *begging* for wordplay: CCE is at the center of your SU CCESS A CCELERATE your career with CCECCE students are E CCENTRIC You get the idea. So I've undertaken a grass-roots campaign in the college to browbeat the marketing department into A CCEPTING this as a viable slogan alternative. However, they're evidently so stuck on the "genius" of Discover that you are the guru that they're poo-pooing my idea.  Never mind that *that* only serves to alienate the large percentage of the world's population that sees "guru" as the term for spiritual teacher. Now here's where you clever folk come in: Anyone see additional possibilities? I'm confident I've not exhausted the language of words that contain CCE (in that order). Volley enough stones at them, and I'm sure they'll A CCEDE to my demands! 
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#61675
03/19/2002 1:24 PM
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Yo, Fiberbabe. Try http://m-w.com/Plug in *cce* and see what ya git.
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#61676
03/19/2002 2:01 PM
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> "Discover that you are the guru"
All of your proposals are better than that! Besides your point about the non-p.c. usage of 'guru', it doesn't have the slightest ring to it. It's about as memorable as my last toilet flush:-/
You could go for something that rhymes and is snappy...
-C.C.E., the place for me.
-Searching for a place for further study?
It has to be, C.C.E.
.. or go for a more reserved approach..
-C.C.E. Continuing your education, furthering yourself.
Kind of pompous I guess, but you get my drift. Wordplay can certainly help to make a motto or trade name be remembered, but there are very poor examples thereof too. I can't think of any now (obviously). Many Internet companies are culprits. Anyway, good luck in ousting the actual choice, FBabe.
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#61677
03/19/2002 2:11 PM
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aCCEntuate your positives eCCEentricate yourself http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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#61678
03/19/2002 2:42 PM
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Yeah, Fiberbabe, not only does the 'guru" slogan fall flat, it's made even worse by further diluting it with the inclusion of that. Even if they *have to use it they could tighten it up with something like "Discover the guru in you." I'll be perusing my mind and pages for any suitable CCE words.
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#61679
03/19/2002 6:30 PM
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Thanks ASp - *cce* yielded some interesting results: BO CCE and SO CCER ~ the sports of choice at CCE. A CCESSORIZE your education with CCE! and my new favorite - A CCEPT it. Without CCE, you're just APT.  Oh! My sides! The pain!
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#61680
03/19/2002 6:36 PM
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BY> It's about as memorable as my last toilet flush:-/Amen. My feelings precisely. But -C.C.E., the place for me.? I thought that was Greenacres. We *are* headquartered on the old ag campus, but I didn't expect you to know that. I like -C.C.E. Continuing your education, furthering yourself. Cheesy sloganism is the name of the game around here... that might just appeal to the ones who actually make the decisions.
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#61681
03/20/2002 2:05 AM
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Never mind that *that* only serves to
alienate the large percentage of the world's population that sees "guru" as the term for spiritual teacher.
And the spiritual leader of the marsupials is the kanguru?
Hey, FB, do you perchance watch "The Education of Max Bickford?" IMHO, it's a really decent show.
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#61682
03/20/2002 2:14 AM
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aCCEde, aCCEded, aCCEding
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#61683
03/20/2002 2:19 AM
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SO CCER! You mean it took a USn to come up with this one? Shame, shame, all you worldwide "football" fans!  [edit: oops! just saw it in your post above, Fiberbabe.  )
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#61684
03/20/2002 2:50 AM
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#61685
03/20/2002 8:18 AM
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Maybe not. It had me in fits of giggles. "I just looked down and there he was".
I know that since the "History Man" we all know more than we need to know about the private lives of academics but maybe this is just giving them a little too much encouragement (hi Rheuby)!
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#61686
03/20/2002 9:36 AM
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University's College of Continuing Education (aka CCE)
ECCE Homo
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#61687
03/20/2002 9:40 AM
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The local tertiary institution in my neck of the woods is known as the EITThe rival university in Dublin is University College Dublin (founded by John Henry Newman) or UCD. We regularly come up with unflattering terms for their acronym. One of the (cleaner) ones is Universal Crowd of DuncesTrinity College Dublin (my esteemed employers) is usually foreshortened to TCD. Try mucking about with that one!!!
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#61688
03/20/2002 12:52 PM
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I love your suCCEss one, but I'd just go with the single word "SUCCESS" with the CCE in a different color or font. The International Herald Tribune (thanks, Anna) newspaper (known as the IHT) used to have a great banner ad on their website: it was the word "THINK" written in mirror writing with the IHT in a different color (they also don't appear backwards, like the N and K do). The word then disappeared and was replaced with something like "think in a new direction with the IHT." One of the cleverest ads I've ever seen.
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#61689
03/20/2002 1:18 PM
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ACCEPT it. Without CCE, you're just APT.Accept it, Fiberbabe, no more, no less...well, if you wanted to soften it a bit you might say... "Without cce you are merely apt."Ether way it is  without being too much so.
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#61690
03/20/2002 1:56 PM
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Trinity College Dublin (my esteemed employers) is usually foreshortened to TCD
Too cool, dude!
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#61691
03/20/2002 2:45 PM
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> ACCEPT it. Without CCE, you're just APT.
Or perhaps ....
SUCCESS. Without CCE you're merely SUSS.
Success has that nice symmetry that logo designers love to play with too.
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03/20/2002 2:48 PM
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Very clever, indeed, but ain't that the International Herald Tribune?
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#61693
03/20/2002 3:11 PM
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> foreshortened to TCD
TCD: Terribly Clumsy Didacticism
or for the other university...
UCD: Utterly Crappy Discipline
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#61694
03/20/2002 3:14 PM
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Very clever, indeed, but ain't that the International Herald Tribune?
'Tis indeed. You'd think I could at least get the order of the letters right. That's what a pre-coffee post'll getcha. I've edited my previous post to more accurately reflect reality. Thanks, Anna.
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03/20/2002 5:11 PM
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SUCCESS. Without CCE you're merely SUSS.
And without CCE ACCESS will make you an ASS!
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#61696
03/20/2002 6:39 PM
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"LET CCE ACCELERATE YOUR SUCCESS!"
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#61697
03/22/2002 2:44 PM
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WO'N, put that in italics and watch it go. "LET CCE ACCELERATE YOUR SUCCESS!"Keep at it FB, they deserve better than the guru thingey.
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#61698
03/22/2002 3:04 PM
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TCD
The Country Dump
The Contentious Dunces
Totally Confused Drudges
The Cross Dressers
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#61699
03/22/2002 4:47 PM
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The Cross DressersAll right, Rubrick--'fess up!
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03/23/2002 5:12 PM
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The Cross Dressers
Actually, you're not far off the mark there (speaking collegiately and not personally).
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#61701
03/23/2002 5:18 PM
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The Country DumpHah! I like this one. There is an observatory in Dunsink, Co. Dublin which was the first city observatory in Ireland we both know where the first country one is, don't we Anne? which, 100 years ago, was well outside the urban environs. Today it is surrounded by housing estates and is no longer a creditable functioning telescope but is still used for Advanced studies for Astronomy students in Trinity College. Also located in Dunsink is the largest city dump. So the observatory has acquired the unflattering toxynym of 'the dump'.
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#61702
03/23/2002 6:55 PM
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the observatory has acquired the unflattering toxynym of 'the dump'.
I love it! Toxic-nym! Not funny, but ...ha!
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#61703
04/17/2002 4:16 AM
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Actually, guru is the Indonesian for teacher. Doesn't have to be spiritual at all. And the Indonesian for kangaroo is kanguru.
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#61704
04/17/2002 5:23 PM
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Thanks Bingley - that's interesting how the word has migrated to such exalted & mystical connotations here.
No need for continued brain-wracking anyhow - I've recently been canned. <Sigh.> I hadn't been happy there for some time, so it's just as well. They can come up with their own stinking slogans!
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04/19/2002 12:24 AM
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I've recently been canned.
Oh, I'm sorry! Even when one is happy about it, it can seem like a rejection. But it is definitely THEIR loss!
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#61706
04/21/2002 10:44 AM
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I think Indonesian guru and English guru have a common origin in one of the Indian languages -- whether it bears any spiritual overtones there I wouldn't know.
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