Hey, Smokey's not responsible for his last name! And the fact that he became a fireman/arsonist/avid smoker/rabid anti-smoker is what got his nick name "Smokey", which he liked a heck of a lot better than his given name, "Dream". (It wasn't his fault his parents wanted a girl/were avid Neil Gaiman fains/left the nameing of him to their three year old.)
Someday I'm going to write a romance novel where the male character is named "Jakarsnook Bobo". He'll still be a melty heart throb, brave and with a sense of humor, but the woman will sometimes wonder to herself if she really wants to be known as "Mrs. Bobo" for the rest of her life :)
A year ago I read a review which savaged HTC phones as unreliable in the long term, i.e. more than two weeks. Don't know if they were being fair, or things are better this year.
I've read a bunch of reviews of the HTC Droid Incredible, and I haven't encountered this idea. Most reviewers love the phone. The most frequent complaint by users is short battery life.
I'm also considering the Apple iPhone 4. Because, well, it's iconic. I've never owned an Apple product, and I'm a little curious. And it has the largest and most mature catalog of apps. Arguing against the iPhone, of course, is its well-known connectivity problems. And most reviewers seem to find a whole clutch of niggling little annoyances about the phone that they wish Apple would fix, and are sure it will, Real Soon Now, even though they haven't been fixed in the last four iPhone generations.
See? Men don't believe it, but women know there *is* a difference between "steel", "mist", "smoke", et al, and that when dressing, these colors don't necessarily coordinate with one another.
Of course, it could all be just clever marketing, but I can't help myself: I'd still rather drive a "charcoal" car than a "grey" one.
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Someday I'm going to write a romance novel where the male character is named "Jakarsnook Bobo". He'll still be a melty heart throb, brave and with a sense of humor, but the woman will sometimes wonder to herself if she really wants to be known as "Mrs. Bobo" for the rest of her life :)
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I'm also considering the Apple iPhone 4. Because, well, it's iconic. I've never owned an Apple product, and I'm a little curious. And it has the largest and most mature catalog of apps. Arguing against the iPhone, of course, is its well-known connectivity problems. And most reviewers seem to find a whole clutch of niggling little annoyances about the phone that they wish Apple would fix, and are sure it will, Real Soon Now, even though they haven't been fixed in the last four iPhone generations.
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Of course, it could all be just clever marketing, but I can't help myself: I'd still rather drive a "charcoal" car than a "grey" one.
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OTOH, I'd prefer to specify the color a painter is to paint my walls in RGB hexadecimal. Sadly, this is not usually possible.
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