So what name would you bestow on the orange gizmo pictured here? Hint: it's a "big game field dressing tool" that "can quickly and easily remove the anal alimentary canal" from "deer and deer-sized game."
a) Canal Zone
b) Alimentary, Dr. Watson
c) The Analyst Is In
d) Happy Entrails to You
e) Butt Out!
Folks, it isn't even close. Butt Out! it is: succinct, pronounceable, colloquial, memorable, macho. It isn't pretty. It isn't poetic. It isn't trendy. But damned if it doesn't get the job done--and even leave you smiling. (Which is more than most anal probes will do.)
There's a how-to video on the Hunter's Specialties site. Friendly tip: don't watch it while eating lunch at your desk.
(Via Wanderings.)
Aw, poor Bambi!
Posted by: Orange | January 22, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I think 'the ascender' would have been appropriate (a bit more gravitas befitting the end of an magnificent animal, don't you think?). But, speaking frankly, I know many people who would be tempted to use it on the hunter rather than the hunted. Or maybe that's just a British thing.
Posted by: John Russell | January 23, 2008 at 05:02 AM
John: Alternate spelling Ass-Ender?
Posted by: Nancy Friedman | January 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM
The Intestinator.
Posted by: Amy | January 23, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Nancy: you got it! I thought of spelling it as you did and then worried that readers would not get the 'ascending' (that is 'up') angle. So I spelt it 'ascender' knowing the sophisticates who read this site would think it through. I agree my spelling would be lost on the tool's target buyer (spot the pun!).
I must admit I find 'Butt Out' very crude (that is; 'tasteless'). I don't think it would cross the Atlantic.
Posted by: John Russell | January 24, 2008 at 11:53 AM