You Can't Spell Patribotics without "BOT"

[MineralMan]

A minor factoid that might be of interest...or not...

[NightWatcher]

1. Or without "Pat"

But that's really not important.

[The_jackalope]

2. Or "rib"

Not sure why she calls down so much more animus than a hundred other tweeps doing pretty much the same thing. Whatevs.

[MineralMan]

3. And who is Pat?

Or Patri? Maybe that's short for Patrick or Patricia. Who can say? I know what "bot" is short for, though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Or "TIC."

[Loki Liesmith]

6. Well yeah...

Mensch first hit it big going after Russian bot accounts.

[Oneironaut]

7. The OP's post reminds me of Glenn Beck. lol

I'm only joking, but I did enjoy Glenn Beck's hilarious use of his chalk board. "In Obama, the O is for Oligarchy" was one of my favorite skits of his (because, let's face it, he was a fake performance artist playing a character).

Not intended to insult or say anything about the OP - I was just reminded of Glenn Beck because he used to play around with words on his chalkboard ).

[MineralMan]

8. Well, giving blogs a clever name is common.

The easiest way to do that is to take a word like Patriotic and stick another letter in it that sounds interesting. So, drop a "b" in there. If you do that, though, it looks like it needs something else, so you add an "s" on the end, and it sounds sort of, you know, official or something, along with being, you know "patriotic" and stuff.

I've been on product naming teams, and that's often how you do it. You fiddle with positive-sounding words and add your own touches to come up with a brand name. Here are a couple of examples of that at work.

There's a psychiatric drug with the name of "Abilifiy." It's a very clever combination of the word "Ability and a suffix "ifiy" that means to make something possible. So you get the sense of "Making able."

Or, how about the actual drug name for Cialis? The actual drug is called Tadalafil. The "afil" part is indicative of the class of drug. But "Tada!" is an exclamation that says, "Look! See?" "Tada! Look! I have an erection." It's a humorous example.

Then, there is the dietary fiber product "Benefiber" Bene has the meaning "good" as a prefix. So, there you have it.

Product naming is fun. I wish I was still on a team that does that. It was a blast.

[NobodyHere]

9. You can't spell democrat w/o 'emo' either

Which I think may mean something.

[Brother Buzz]

10. You can't spell fundamentals without "fun"....

but you can use the letters in fundamentals to spell sandman flute!" - Hunter Pence