Re: Don't name your teddy bear Mouhammud

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LBRatner@xxxxxxxxx (Lee Ratner) wrote:

British woman named Gillian Gibbons. Her crime, letting her young
elementary schoold students name the class teddy bear, Mouhammud.

Incidentally, did the Blue Peter cat story make it across the Atlantic?
It has similarities.

Blue Peter is a children's TV programme that has been running for about
fifty years. It is usual for the show to have pets and recently they
got a new cat. There was a viewers' poll to determine its name, and it
was announced that the name Socks won.

Now, British television has recently been suffering a crisis about
phone quizzes and polls. Viewers have been invited to ring expensive
phone numbers after the outcome of the quiz or poll has already been
decided. In the middle of this brouhaha, it was discovered that Socks
was not the poll winner. It was said that the name Cookie had won the
poll, but this name was deemed not suitable. As a result of all the
phone call revelations, TV executives have been falling on their swords
all over.

However, nobody has explained to my satisfaction what was wrong with
the name Cookie. A journalist in today's paper, also drawing
similarities, reckoned the word Cookie is a genitalia reference, but
it's not one I'm familiar with. In a similar vein, I've seen it
suggested that the reveal name Cookie was itself a cover-up, and the
chosen name was in fact ***. Any other explanations?
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