What started out as yet another gay attempt at attention-getting by Greenpeace has quickly turned into a bit of an internet sensation. Go cast a vote for your favorite whale name!
Don’t get me wrong - any frequent AdChops readers (which I believe consists of my mother, a couple friends of mine, and a prisoner serving 30-to-life at Leavenworth… wait, my mom just called..she doesn’t read it) know that conservation of our environment is the cause nearest and dearest to my heart. But my gawwwwd do my fellow tree-huggers do a bad job of marketing! They’re always coming across as a bunch of weak, powerless hippies.
So when they sought to draw attention to a current threat to humpback whale populations by having a Whale-naming contest, you can probably imagine the names that were submitted; you know, shit like "Windsong", "Moondream", and a bunch of stuff bylined with "from the word for {fill in hippy-cherished concept: ’song’, ‘love’, ‘freedom’, etc} in ancient {fill in soon-to-be-extinct language spoken by, like, 15 people on Earth}". Great.. let’s represent endangered species with endangered languages.
But one good name got through: "Mr. Splashy Pants"! They put it in the final vote "as a joke". Well, this joke now has 72% of the vote (in a field of 30!), and I’m betting Greenpeace has had more site hits than any time in recent history.
Do you get it yet, Greenpeace? People, in general, like what you are doing. The oceans are great. Humpbacks, great. We just don’t like hippies. I know that is probably hard for the 50- and 60-something year old people now running Greenpeace to accept. "But, the 60s were important, man! What happened then was special!" No, the 60s were not especially important. Taking acid and dancing in mud… not especially important. So get over it and start marketing for non-"aging hippies". Mr. Splashy Pants is a good start. :)
Found originally through DHADM
