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starfireming

ranting, because we can can can!

Mar 20, 2009 08:39

This article about the SciFi channel name change engenders in me this response. The very idea makes me wanna slap a bitch! Syfy? SYFY? NO! It sounds like a pet name for syphilis! They went through 300 names and picked this bullshit? "'When we tested this new name, the thing that we got back from our 18-to-34 techno-savvy crowd, which is quite ( Read more... )

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luguvalium March 20 2009, 13:05:33 UTC

Marketing fails again

seekingferret March 20 2009, 13:21:48 UTC

I mean, it's not like the word SciFi is unanimously accepted by the Fandom community. I tend to stick to the relatively inoffensive SF, which encompasses the partisans of SciFi, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy, etc... And there are people who distinguish between SF and 'skiffy', where skiffy is their derisive pronunciation of Scifi and denotes bad, trashy adventure stories with bug-eyed aliens.

But if the Sci-Fi Channel wanted to distance themselves from all of that debate, did they have to make up an entirely new word for the genre?

quietdeath March 20 2009, 13:46:23 UTC

These corporate tools are obviously jealous that the geek boys are getting more hot girls then they are.

nadabrahma March 20 2009, 22:18:49 UTC

This. XD

gwalkmaur March 20 2009, 18:15:13 UTC

The only shows I watch on Sci-Fi....err..excuse me..."Syfy: Imagine Greater", are Doctor Who (which I can download 1 hour after it airs in Britain, without the awkward commercial breaks that US tv requires), and Eureka (which comes back in April for the rest of the season). Other than that, there's almost NO reason to watch the channel, at least for me, anymore.

goodgothgirl March 20 2009, 20:38:40 UTC

On a completely different note ... I'm going to go knitting in Goochland on Sunday. Wanna drive with me? I have books for you! Jess has to work this weekend, so it's just me.