Cory Doctorow: Zing Coiner – Porn Coiner
Porn Coiner
Maybe you got here searching for the Porn Coiner (i.e. maybe the coiner of the word porn?). Well I, Jeremy Clarke, am not the coiner of the word porn, though I like to think I’ve added to outlining various uses of the word over the years. See all posts I’ve written on the subject of porn, especially this one and this one.
Anyone looking for information about the etymology of the word ‘porn’ would do well to read the Wiktionary Defintion of porn or the Etymology and History sections of the Wikipedia article about porn. Well, that was enlightening, wasn’t it?
The original article about Cory Doctorow
Despite some of his fairly obnoxious politicking and rhetorical flourishes, BoingBoing writer Cory Doctorow has to be given credit for being the best writer of mean slogans against corporations I’ve ever encountered. Today’s zinger is targeted at States-side telecom giant AT&T, but fits just as nicely with my favorite hated telco Bell Canada.
Seriously: the only day I wouldn’t piss on [Bell] is if they were on fire.
The photo above comes from this post, describing a Bell ad that made me cringe almost as much as their intentionally frustrating and extortionary customer service tactics. (The ad is promoting their anti-porn parental controls service by implying that if you care about your kids, you’d cut the genitals out of children’s anatomy books. I can try to think of something more backwards thinking to use as a promotional vehicle, but it’s very, very depressing.)
