Comments on: Badass Names

By: Tony McGurk

Tony McGurk — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:34:56 +0000

I am almost too afraid to go to the kitchen & bathroom now…

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:19:47 +0000

The old Norse, who were Vikings and so intrinsically badass, called this a ‘kenning’. So for instance a sword (already badass) could be a wound-hoe (becoming double badass), a boat (the Viking long type with a dragon on the front – badass) could be a wave-steed (again, double badass), and so on.

Quite probably Mr Savage knows this, but i thought i would educate other readers. It is a key technique in linguistic badassery.

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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:07:48 +0000

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By: jim w

jim w — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:18:56 +0000

that’s awesome!!

By: Aud

Aud — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:02:16 +0000

OH my gosh…I love the follicle intimidator.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:15:29 +0000

@Doug: can we look forward to a “biker chick” cartoon soon? Now that would be badasssssssss.

By: Marketing_Secret_Sauce

Marketing_Secret_Sauce — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:05:05 +0000

I’m going to use “beardkiller.”

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:35:37 +0000

@shanadian - You bet I will! Oh wait I already did draw a badass chicken!

By: shanadian

shanadian — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:16:54 +0000

It’s hard to have “badass” describing anything that has to do with chickens. After fifteen years, I can tell you. Chickens just have a hard time being badass… there are biker chick pictures, yeah, but those aren’t really badass.

But I imagine that Doug will find a way to make a chicken badass, won’t you?

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:18:48 +0000

@Zork & @Keith – you’re totally right about “eviscerate”. But logic doesn’t matter when you’re badass!