Comments on: Bangadelphia

By: News Feeds - Steenstraat Arnhem

News Feeds - Steenstraat Arnhem — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:13:13 +0000

[...] Bangadelphia Philadelphia is a happening little city, the cradle of liberty, and the site of Happy Cog East. It’s also a city that gets unfairly overlooked—like a beauty whose sisters are supermodels. But I have a plan. I want to rebrand Philadelphia as !adelphia. I can see the logo. I can see half a dozen ad campaigns, some [...] [...]

By: Alessio Bragadini

Alessio Bragadini — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:49:21 +0000

And I thought from the title you were proposing a joint venture with Bangalore, India!

By: Don Ulrich

Don Ulrich — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:26:09 +0000

Talking about Philly is not complete without discourse
on Camden NJ. Maybe a theme song by Johnny Rotten.
Or this quote from Mr. Rotten.

“Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.”

By: Hercules Papatheodorou

Hercules Papatheodorou — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:52:09 +0000

Being Greek, while reading the name Philadelphia I instantaneously think about the “Brotherly Love”, in turn, !adelphia reades like !brothers in Greek, perhaps that be inspiring to you :)

By: Greg Mayer

Greg Mayer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:56:24 +0000

Maybe it’s the meds talking…
Maybe?

Of course, you could always have T. Rex’s, “Bang a Gong” as the theme music to go with it.

By: Mr. Designer

Mr. Designer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:47:14 +0000

I work down the street from Happy Cog. Good lord, an “!” will not make Philly any cleaner, nicer and more attractive. Philly is the sister with the missing tooth spitting a loogy on the sidewalk while screaming at her kids pushing her stroller through the gayborhood trying to score some heroin!

People are mean here. The sports fans are NUTS. I just went to an Eagles game for the last time. I remember walking to work, Philadelphia smelled as clean as it could smell from the rain, and there is a bum in the alley across from Happy Cog taking a piss facing the street, not the building!

I went to Seattle for an Event apart. I didn’t want to go. I was shocked at how nice it was. I didn’t want to leave. I flew home, I surfaced from the train onto Market Street in Philadelphia and realized how nasty Philly really is!

There is a culture in Philly that will never change. Philadelphia is ignored for a reason. And there have been some funny well done ad campaigns and TV commercials. I don’t know if they helped Philly much.

By: Rob Kirton

Rob Kirton — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:44:42 +0000

This use of ! to mean bang could cause problems here in the U.K. There is a small town in Devon called Westward Ho! The only place in the UK to have an explanation mark in its name.

I guess pronouncing it your way would mean calling it Westward Ho Bang. My (possibly limited and mistaken) understanding of the U.S. vernacular, makes it just sound very wrong.

Jeff, have a happy Christmas and also good luck with the rebranding if somebody gives you the nod to do it.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:15:36 +0000

Its a typo. Has to be Bangladelphia.

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:22:41 +0000

I saw the title and thought about something more like !ladesh. Or perhaps !cock.

Come to !Cock for a wonderful time!

By: J David Eisenberg

J David Eisenberg — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:29:34 +0000

I like it. Great idea. You have no idea how tempting it was to put an exclamation point in this post.

By: Mark W.

Mark W. — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:34:06 +0000

The town of Hamilton, Ohio had its name officially changed to Hamilton! back in the late 1980s in hopes of stirring excitement and interest in the sleepy little town. Most map makers ignored it. Some didn’t. By the late 1990s, they officially dropped the exclamation point.

By: J Dubs

J Dubs — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:24:29 +0000

City’s not practicing enough. You will NOT be the best without practicing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsId3goYYE

By: John Morrison

John Morrison — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:44:12 +0000

You are all such nerds. Especially that comment by Eric. But I love you all for it.

Happy Festivus!

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:06:02 +0000

Of course, the programmers in the world would read that as “No adelphia”, which (per Bufort) would come out as “No brothers”.

Okay, I’m getting hip to this. Especially since it means the baseball team would become “The Bangies”. Or maybe “The Bangles”, in which case they could walk onto the field like Egyptians.

Awesome.

By: Bufort

Bufort — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:49:32 +0000

That reminds me of my old cable company, Adelphia.

Adelphia Communications Corporation, named after the Greek word “brothers”, was the fifth largest cable company in the United States before filing for bankruptcy in 2002 as a result of internal corruption.

!adelphia then might actually be appropriate for two reasons; “brothers” or brotherly love, and corruption.

No offense to the folks who live in Philly. I like the city, and love the pretzels. With mustard.