Terry Boot replaces Peter Foot as Shoe Zone financial director

[pesco]

Originally published at: Terry Boot replaces Peter Foot as Shoe Zone financial director | Boing Boing

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[brokenwords]

You can make this stuff up, but you don’t always have to,

[belovedvillain]

I heart nominative determinism.

[gracchus]

Eponysterical, as they like to say over at Metafilter.

[Papasan]

No word as to why Mary Clog wasn’t considered for the job? I feel Mary Clog would take the organization in a direction more in tune with societies shoe needs.

I especially like her moto:

[brokenwords]

@gracchus

Eponysterical

I learned a new broken word today!

[Papasan]

You need steel toed boots, that way you won’t stub your toe on those words.

[fiddlingfrog]

@pesco

In other news, the word of the day is " aprotonym ," defined as “a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.”

Also known as, in some circles, the Victor von Doom Paradox.

[timd]

And where is Sally Stiletto? Glass ceiling?

[Ratel]

@pesco

In other news, the word of the day is " aprotonym ," defined as “a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.”

Not sure why you have to be named after a fish to lead the SNP…

[TheChineseWatch]

Well, actually, it’s an “aptronym,” not an aprotonym.

[Melizmatic]

[ChuckV]

@Papasan

I feel Mary Clog would take the organization in a direction more in tune with societies shoe needs.

Can she get me a good deal on some cha-cha heels?

[Papasan]

@ChuckV

cha-cha heels?

Hey Dude, That’s my Mom, watch it Bro.

[Nightflyer]

I understood that reference!

Kinky Boots (2005) Official Trailer 1 - Chiwetel Ejiofor Movie

[pingremotehost]

Foot got the Boot.
Would have thought Clog was a shoe-in.

[JohnEightThirty]

Foot Heads Arms Body

[NukeML]

We can only hope Foot becomes president of the NRA.

[raines]

@belovedvillain

I heart nominative determinism.

It oughtta be banned, or I’ll never get to see the sunny side of this situation.

[beschizza]

@pesco

In other news, the word of the day is " aprotonym ," defined as “a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.”

Beschizza is a name from Romania (Beschia), given a little Italian pizzazz on its journey westwards, but I’m told that in German it sounds an awful lot like “shitfaced”.