Deweycheatumnhowe, A Namesake

Posted by BarbaraAnne Helberg Nov 29, 2007

Deweycheatumnhowe?

Did you get it the first time around? Nice nickname for the longer entry - Dewey. A shorter, quicker, more cuddly read on the go. Go, Dewey, go! Much easier than go, Deweycheatumnhowe, go! You can go anywhere with a horse's name.

A champion's name - Deweycheatumnhowe. A strong statement.

Okay. Dew - do. Ey - we, or I. Cheat - plain enough. It means cheat. Um - slangy for them. N - for and. Howe for how. Whatcha got? Do we cheat them and how.

Sneaky clever, right? The name comes with a purpose and a background. Dewey's name was given to point out the butt of a Johnny Carson gag. Which concerned a crooked law firm.

Who is Dewey? He's a champion two-year-old harness racing trotter. Yep. He's won 10 straight races, significantly adding his last victory to that count in the Breeders' Crown championship in the Two-Year-Old Colt Trot class in the last weekend of November at the Meadowlands track in New Jersey.

Deweycheatumnhowe is a champion. I have a question. Could the response to the J.C. gag have been just as strong if Dewey's owners had opted for something on the less slippy side? Say, like, Rwewhonstuafaltubet - Are we honest to a fault you bet; maybe Aryhonstunoit - Are we honest you know it?

The nicknames would still be cute, if not exactly cuddly - Faulty and Ary. The message would still be strong. It would denote the opposite side of the coin. Not highlighting the cheating, but boosting honesty.

But, hey, Imokwthdeweycheatumnhowe. I like Preachinatthebartoo. Such cleverness gets attention, and that's the point. You're free to take it from there.