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Time to Rename ‘ICE’

Addiction Is A Choice
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To say that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is polarizing, verging on radioactive, is an understatement. Time for a new name, preferably to something acronymically difficult, something that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as "ICE.” Maybe the "Homeland Immigration Customs and Border Administration" or maybe the "Office of Border Customs and Emigration Immigration." Anything. As long as it's a mouthful ...

At the very least, the Left would have to change their chants and signs.

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  • Mark Camp@MarkCamp

    Let’s spitball this. Or better yet, let’s water pistol this, or whoopie cushion it:

    Big Pharma specializes in creating brand new names that are hideously difficult to pronounce. Also, just plain hideous. I have seen new drug names that make Turkish EPL footballer names seem to glide off the tongue, by comparison.

    Ricochet: So what, Camper? And please remember that nobody can ever understand you.

    Ok, so, one way to ensure that an acronym for a name has certain qualities (such as loveliness, or appropriateness, or obscene humour pleasing to an adult male of arrested emotional/intellectual development) is back-formation.

    So how bout this. Start by asking a young employee of Merck with a masters in marketing to create a typical new drug name. Then work backward to create the new name for ICE. Grybfimphlab, or some such.

    Scene: Perky, carefree, affluent-looking couple laugh while he pushes her on the tire swing.

    Voice-over:

    ”Grybfimphlab can have serious side effects, like causing your limbs to progressively rot from the ends until they are gone, after which the black goo starts seeping into your brain.

    “Ask your Doctor if Grybfimphlab is right for you.”

    Ok, fine, I’m just shooting things on the wall with a pea-shooter here, to see what sticks.

    Ricochet: Eww!
  • Chowderhead@Podunk

    I don't know, but putting letters together I came up with a funny one...

    T.U.M.B.L.E. Triggered Unhinged Millennials with Blue-hair and Limited Education

    Like I used to tell my daughter when she was in the army. It comes from the SAD. Stupid Acronym Department.

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