Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 23, 2023

They renamed Mount McKinley after a GM SUV model.

What about Hoover Dam?

Good one Pig!

It used to be DJs and news anchors gave de facto names to things. Now the media stupidly provide free advertising to the naming companies.

In addition, taxpayers’ money is subsidizing the construction of new stadiums!

They sell the naming rights, greed. Most Stadiums are owned by the local or state government.

“Crypto.com Arena”, home of the L.A. Lakers, Clippers and Kings is the worst. People still prefer to call it “Staples Center”, the office supply company that had naming rights for over 20 years.

No more corporate names for arenas or stadiums!! Veterans Memorial should STAY that way!!

“Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.”

(Proceeds to smile while holding a slice of Pizza Hut pizza)

(Holding a bag of Doritos)

“Maybe I’m wrong on this one, but for me, the beast doesn’t include selling out.”

“Garth, you know what I’m talking about, right?”

(Garth wearing Reebok branded clothing)

“It’s like, people only do things because they get paid. And that’s just really sad.”

~Wayne Campbell (Wayne’s World)

I dunno: when I Google “Amazonian Women” they look pretty healthy to me!

Look what happened when the poultry industry named that country on the Anatolian Peninsula. “Turkey.” Yeah, right. They don’t even RAISE them there!

…and there was an Amazonas motorcycle.

RIP Candlestick ❤️

Amazon rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate,sad to say!

Here we have the Mohican Sun Arena named for a Native American tribe!

Pig probably thinks the planets Mercury and Saturn were named after cars. And Mars was named after a candy bar

The Cornelius Noodleman Junk Yard.

My mom watched a 49ers game on TV from Levi Stadium and was disappointed that it wasn’t Candlestick. I thought with a little creative naming rights, we could have had Glade Candlestick Park.

Well, there’s been Wrigley Field for awhile.

Outer Banks. (gun joke)

Thank goodness for Lambeau Field. Since the team is owned by the community, the name will not be changed. However, the entrance gates are named things like Miller Lite Entrance, American Family Insurance Entrance, Kwik Trip Entrance and so on.

I want an amazon woman, but is it next day shipping ?

Fenway Park could have the Jolly Green Giant Wall.

Nike Falls? Wells Fargo Canyon? Pampers Salt Flats?

Do Amazonian women drive compact cars, & if so which modelsdo they prefer? The answer, anything with a manual shift.

“Which came first?” sometimes has some surprising answers.

The ad displaying above this comic today is for Amazon Prime. I’m wondering if that’s true for others… it the ad-selection algorithm actually reading the comics???

It doesn’t make sense to me. If the naming rights to the Mets stadium is worth that much to Citibank, why isn’t it worth that much to the Mets? Apparently, naming it is worth $400 million, and they could name it “Mets Stadium” for free. The Yankees, at least, recognize the branding value in naming it “Yankee Stadium.”

The Count’s favorite Amazonian Woman is 6’ tall Taylor Swift. ❤️❤️❤️

I remember those days. “Three Rivers Stadium” was the best name ever. Now it’s just a big commercial.

We have an Apple River here in Wisconsin.

And then there’s the Big Apple…

Amazon rainforest…hee one. Although, I won’t put it past Bezos to try and put a ® or a ™ there somewhere.

I heard if they agree on a price, the prayer will become “give us this day our daily Wonder Bread.”

Diana Prince ordered  a book about the rain Forrest for her mother, making her the first Amazon to order a book about the Amazon, from Amazon, for an Amazon

I wanted to order up a Amazon woman but my wife said no. :^(

I don’t care what they call it. The Cincinnati Bengals still play in Paul Brown stadium.

“Amazon” was a brilliant branding move.

When I was young, the Verizon Center was called the MCI Center.

it has been called Verizon Wireless Music Center, Klipsch Music Center, Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, and Ruoff Music Center, but it will always be Deer Creek to me. I have memories of seeing the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and Phish there back in the day.

For me it was the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville.

Pig is looking out for Wonder Woman and the warriors of Themyscira !! – Good for him!! … :)

Cessna and Whirlpool were going to have a joint venture in naming a stadium..

Somehow “Cess-Pool” Arena just didn’t seem catchy….

I’d rather see a cage match between Musk and an Amazonian than Zuck.

Come see the Orioles in Baltimore.

>> net snip..

March 4, 1959 – Fifty years ago today on a busy news day for The Chronicle, readers learned the name of the city’s new $15 million baseball stadium for the Giants – Candlestick Park. The sports editors of San Francisco’s four daily newspapers at the time chose the name from more than 20,000 entries.

The winning entry took the name of the stadium’s site, Candlestick Point, which in turn was named because the rocks on the hill behind the stadium resembled candlesticks. The editors rejected proposals such as Argonaut Arena and Zephyr Cove, which would have been appropriate given the breezes that would long bedevil “The ’Stick.” The name changed four times between 1995 and 2008 – 3Com Park, 3Com Park at Candlestick Point, Monster Park and finally back to Candlestick Park.

Few men can make it with an Amazon.

For once I agree with Rat. He was also right about Pig, who sometimes appears to operate in another dimension.

Oh, I agree, I can’t stand naming stadiums after sponsors.

It’ll be a cold day in Hades before Lambeau Field ever gets a corporate moniker.

No more messing with tradition, I say! What’s all this newfangled Yankee Stadium nonsense? If New Amsterdam Regenten was good enuf for the city’s founders, it should be good enuf for you young whippersnappers, too!

Idlewild Airport became JFK Airport a long time ago.

Give it time. The Amazon corporation may indeed one day own the Amazon Rainforest.

Think of the fun of naming a stadium “Depends”

Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™: Year of the Whopper; Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad; Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar; Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken; Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster; Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-to-Install-Upgrade for Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems for Home, Office, or Mobile; Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland; Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment; Year of Glad.

(from Infinite Jest)

Any corporations out there named Grand or Sahara?

Nothing is sacred anymore! C

This country is run by big corps, and rich billionaires

BOO HISS

The Great Walmart of China.

Rat getting sentimental; totally out of character.

It’s all about the $$$

Of course Wrigley Field has been that way for a loooooong time. Though not always. Wasn’t built for the Cubs but for the Whales of the ill fated Federal League.

Pig’s appalling ignorance is good for a laugh. Right, Rat?

Actually, those poor Amazonian Men, you mean, Pig.

We would first need to get rid of the childish politicians for that to work.

Hold on now. My Cali teams play and have played in those stadiums!