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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Are Not Strangers…
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010But this is too Bostony to pass up posting.
If you haven’t seen The Super Secret Project‘s “Granite State of Mind” New Hampshire tribute (and Jay-Z send-up), go do that, quick, because it’s amazing. Then check out their recreation of the Perfect Strangers opening, Boston-style…. (They also did the Good Will Hunting Louder “remake” we posted a while back.)
Next up, maybe they can do Step by Step, but on the Green Line instead of a roller coaster? Terrifying!
Good Will Hunting, Louder
Friday, February 5th, 2010Matt Damon’s got an iPod! (but not an iPad)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Tired of hearing about the iPad? Everyone loves it! Everyone has a complaint about it!
Among the over-hyped complaints about the revolutionary new Apple device is that certain accents and regional pronunciations make the terms “iPod” and “iPad” indistinguishable.
Cult of Mac blogger John Brownlee writes:
I wanted to point out quickly why I think this is such a terrible product name. I’m from Boston originally. We have an interesting way of pronouncing our a’s.
Call up a friend with a Boston accent and ask them to say “iPad.” They might just pronounce it pretty similarly to “iPod.” We’re weird that way. Or as Jake von Slatt just said to me: “Here in Boston, we’d say ‘Do you haave the big iPohd or the little iPohd?’”
Even if the pronunciation is different for everyone, though, iPad still seems a bad choice. A one letter difference makes for a lot of possible confusion.
The following send-up of the product uses good ole Good Will Hunting to elucidate this point. (And at last, someone jokes about the iPad and steers clear of feminine hygiene.)
Enjoy.
