“Gaypon Is the Gay Groupon” reads the title of yesterday’s TechCrunch post about the new “daily deals site catering to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LBGT) and allied communities.”
“Groupon” is already mildly suggestive (get your grope on?). Now we have a copycat that sounds like “gape on.”
Not to mention the inevitable “gay p0rn” mixups. (Or capon.)
And then there’s this: Gaypon’s URL is DailyGaypon.com because—you guessed it—Gaypon.com was already taken. The latter is a peculiar, semi-literate, possibly-not-legit dating site. I’m not going to link to it but I will quote a bit of it, verbatim: “GayPon.com is a membership $30.00 per month, Your love is here sign up now your dreams will come true.”
Meanwhile, at least one person in my virtual circle got a whole ’nuther association from Gaypon:
Actually, it was “Would you have any Grey Poupon?”
Well, my first thought was tampon, which I'm surprised did not occur to you.
Posted by: Jon Carroll | August 31, 2011 at 09:54 AM
I was just about to say that.
Posted by: Andy Behr | August 31, 2011 at 04:26 PM
How about a little originality, rather than trying to make "-pon" happen?
Posted by: Jessica | August 31, 2011 at 05:25 PM
Something to pon-der.
Posted by: Duchesse | September 01, 2011 at 05:53 AM