A New Name for the Big Bang

In <3rg756$oqh@washington.nwlink.com> williams@nwlink.com (William Sommerwerck) writes:

>pbobby@ix.netcom.com (Paul Bobby ) wrote:

>>>Scientific American did something quite a while ago, or maybe
>someone else, ran a competition to come up with new names for
>the Big Bang.

>It was Sky & Telescope. After scanning several thousand
>entries, they decided that not *one* of them was any sort of
>improvement, and (much to the distress of their readers)
>refused to publish *any* of the entries!
I seem to remember that they published some of the entries. I thought that "Bertha D. Universe" was pretty clever, though I can see why it could never catch on...

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_________________________________________________________________ Joe Twicken joe@nova.stanford.edu (415) 723-3597
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