Reply To: JoCoDay 2011 Brainstorming
I haven’t properly read through these ideas yet, and when I get time I intend to write a version of A Talk With George how I imagined it, for you to smash to pieces and mix with the other ideas, but just a quick thought about @Thalandor46’s one:
How about ‘Everybody celebrates the birth of JoCo’, because then we have ‘JoC’ where there would be ‘polk’ which rhymes with it in some accents. Maybe even the ‘start’ of JoCo, but that’s kind of a weird way to say it. Or, to tie in with the previous line (which I really like) something like, ‘everybody f&*^#ing loves the birth of JoCo’ only with a word that makes it clear it’s about his birthday rather than his birth. Mainly I was just thinking of the original ‘everybody loves’ and interpreting it in a First of Mayish way. If there were a one-syllable word meaning ‘celebrate’, I’d say, ‘Everybody loves to [that word] the birth of JoCo’, but with ‘loves’ occasionally pronounced in a kind of sleazy way so that it could be interpreted either as ‘everybody reenacts the First of May [because they got it confused with JoCoDay] in order to celebrate the birth of JoCo’ or ‘everybody enjoys celebrating the birth of JoCo’ depending on the listener. This way would keep it PG.