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From
Harper’s magazine, November 1998:
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'The true origin of "biosolid" can be traced
back to a Name Change Task
> Force created by the sewage industry to improve the image of its
main
> product, sludge. In 1990, the task force sponsored a contest to
come up
> with a more marketable name. Rejected candidates include "all
growth,"
> "purenutri," "biolife," "bioslurp,"
"black gold," "geoslime,"
> "sca-doo," "the end product," "humanure,"
"hu-doo," "bioresidue,"
> "urban biomass," "powergro," "organite,"
and "nutricake." '
Here are the ones I would have submitted:
"potsie"
"durt"
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"dot-compost"
"better than sludge"
"dingleburgers"
"Hershey's bear hugs"
"spasta"
putria
reverse Twinkies
shlurry
The Unflop
Crapple
moo-out
antifood
rooti-doot
syrup de dollop
derfudge
goobie
enviro-poo
Cream of Crap
plopsie daisies
Mr. Sewage
colonade
dayspoiler
applop
slatherousness
googleyuk
Count Crapula
dinglestuff
I Can't Believe It's Not Sewage
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"mello smello"
don't-dont
did-did
pisselle
Everything Brown
shitroma
detri-trust
renewage
turboturdo
personure
funilizer
man-zoni
runner-down
solidew
Captain Shitner
poodling
pism
dunglop
Smucker's
power puh
choo-choo trainage
MOMMY, I DID IT ALL BY MYSELF!(tm)
USDA Grade Z
cash-EWWW nuts
gunky doo
free-seez
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and...
"poutine"
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