OK just two quick points of order here. One I've been waiting to post about till just now, and the other is new. These relate to verbiage and word smithing, FYI
1) IMHO my CATCHPHRASE, "MADE WITH FLAVOR" stands poised to take the world by storm and become the new "OFF THE HOOK" of The Aughts
My reasoning:
For an idiom to gain momentum, it has to speak to a common experience shared by people in every walk of life. Though "off the hook" originated in hip hop culture, the concept of phones having hooks and the receiver being left off of them was a universal image in the public's imagination. The idea of a phone being deliberately left "off the hook" for a raucous rowdy dow was immediately relatable to demographics across across the world and the socio economic ladder
To say that something was "off the hook" soon became understood to be a fun, catchy way to say that something would be "awesome", even outside of the original party context
Times are changing though, and for the most of Americans today, in vast majority of phone calls they make, no hook ever comes into play. To a certain degree, "OFF THE HOOK" has lost it's cultural currency
So..
It is my firm belief that in the age of universal nutritional labeling on consumer food packaging, the concept of a given product being "made with XYZ" is one that any mentally competent individual is familiar with. Additionally, flavor, or "flava", is already a noun that has well known positive connotations in the urban sphere, as well as with the public at large. It's a word with deep psychological resonance, no one can argue
Therefore... The idea of remarking that a given person, place, event or object is or has been "Made with Flavor" should be readily accessible to all users of American English (as well as other nations too, I'd imagine) and is a perfectly designed idiom for this age we now find ourselves in (Thanks to Elizabeth Warren this isn't likely to change any time soon)
On that note, I'd like to state my intention to make MWF go viral and become a popularlly used turn of phrase in the 21st century (and beyond?). Help me in my quest, won't you?
Essentially: As of this moment I am officially coining the phrase. Now it's your turn
2) (!) I'd like to make clear my plans to use the word "CLU" in discussions about digital deaging/face trickery here on the board from this point forward
I could say that I'd like to see a given actor "CLU'd" or that I think a studio may "CLU" someone for the role, ETC ETC
Just wanted to let you guys know. IMHO face trickery is a minor revolution in it's own right, and though I'm a 3D Partisan till the end, I want to make clear my respect for CLU Gurus
