Ghana be closed during the holidays.

Alexandra is off to Ghana to adopt a baby monkey, bang some tribal drums, and eat every meal with her hands. The whole Eat My Words crew is taking off to recharge our batteries so we can start 2008 with a bang. We'll be back the week of January 5th, 2008. Thanks to all of you who have made this such a fantastic year for Eat My Words. We couldn't do it without loyal clients and cheerleaders like you.

Warm regards and happy holidays,

Alexandra and The Team

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"Need a good domain name, must be cheap, can't be lame."

Silcon Valley's dishy tech gossip rag, Valleywag, turned us on to this hysterical Web 2.0 satire video, "Here Comes Another Bubble," by the Richter Scales, sung to the tune of Bill Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." I promise you will laugh out loud and watch it more than once.

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel, Part II

SPQR

San Francisco's newest 4-letter word is SPQR, a trendy restaurant, which gets gushing reviews for food, but like TCHO (see below), falls dreadfully short in the vowel department. SPQR is a little too much like SPOR. Eat My Words wouldn't go near the word "spor" for one of our clients. It's not something we want to taste. Plus, we're not sure how to pronounce it. The dyslexic version, "SPRQ," might sound little bit like "Spork." According to sources, SPQR is actually an acronym for "Senatus Populusque Romanus," which means "the senate and the Roman people." Okay, is it just us, or wouldn't the acroynm for Senatus Populusque Romanus simply be SPR? (Still sounds like SPOR.) We're not crazy about the names "Senatus," "Populusque," or "Romanus" on their own as a name of the restaurant either, but at least they have vowels.

I'd Like To Buy a Vowel

I don't know about you, but I like to be able to pronounce the things I put in my mouth. (You know, that whole "eat my words" thing.) And if two consumer product namers can't pronounce a $4 chocolate bar named T-C-H-O, that spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Designer chocolate begs for a hip name. The product is in "Beta" right now, so maybe it's just a code name during testing. Here are some other theories about the origin of the name...

1. It's an abbreviation for "Techno" and they want to be "cool" like Flickr (another head-scratcher). Come on man, buy a vowel.
2. The high-tech founder is alluding to technology as in T(ech)CHO(colate)
3. It's an acronym for something like "The Chocolate Hedonist's Orgasm." (Hey, that sounds like something from Eat My Words.)
   

What do you think it means? And how the heck do you pronounce it? Inquiring minds want to know.

Are you talented enough to be an Eat My Words naming superstar?

We're always looking for fresh talent, so if you think you have the mojo to be a rockstar Eat My Words namer, send us your top 20 name ideas for a cool new consumer product: a sleek external hard-drive that stores an enormous amount of data. Before you take the test, please get familiar with our distinctive naming style at the Eat My Words website and look at our portfolio. Our style is unlike any other naming firm... our names make people smile instead of scratch their head. We don't do names like Flickr, Fusic, Fabtastic, or Fraganza. No experience necessary - in fact, if you have never worked for a naming firm, your chances of success are better because you haven't learned the old school way of mangling letters and forcing words together. Email your name test to: dreamjobs(at)eatmywords.com.