When I first thought of blogging ten years ago, I was really excited to get to it. That’s why I didn’t spend much time on the name. I know some people used the abbreviation “IMHO” for “In My Humble Opinion”, so I thought I’d use “IMAO” for “In My Arrogant Opinion”.
That was a horrible idea.
I’ve since had to spend the past ten years answering questions of what exactly does my blog’s name mean. And anytime I say it, I have to be really careful as people will get it confused with LMAO, INAO, IAMO, etc. Also, I didn’t think to check URLs when I made the name, so I had to get IMAO.us since IMAO.com wasn’t available. IMAO.com was a website for a Korean handle manufacturer, but the URL was since bought for thousands of dollars by someone just hoping to catch people who mistype my URL… which is kind of flattering.
Anyway, if I had to do it all over again, I’d come up with a better name. Like just “Nuke the Moon”. That would be a blog name people would remember. Or “Hippie Punch”. Something dynamic.
What would you name IMAO?
What would you name IMAO?
If a boy, Melvin, a girl, Hortense.
Warmongerer HQ.
Time flies when you’re laughing at FrankJ’s posts. I remember the post to choose ‘Unfair. Unbalance. Unmedicated.’
I think “WarmongererHQ” is taken.
There’s this country-speedcore-deathmetal band called The Warmongerers out of Corpus Christi. I think it’s Lee Ving’s latest jamband that he cobbled together with guys from Thee Unclaimed and White Zombie.
Rage Against Communist Insurrection & Sabotage Tactics
How about “Spit Take”?
WOLVERINE!
With a deep throaty voice…”War Horse!”
Right To The Jaw!
Oh! I thought it meant ‘In My Awesome Opinion”…
I rather like it myself.
Mangled Baby Ducks.
With a name like that, it HAS to be good.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75qjam.phtml
http://www.imnsfho.com
It’s available!
Frank’s Fiction and Stuff
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TEN YEARS and you’re just now getting around to writing the “What Does IMAO Mean” post?? That’s some epic procrastination, Bub.
By the way, first time I saw IMAO I thought it was missing a comma and was probably the ramblings of a dead, Chinese commie.
“IMAO” is great cause it’s so short (NB: “Fly” is shorter), but how do you pronounce it, Frank? i’m mayo? ih, mo? i, mao? emu? please don’t say it’s emo.
CNN.com …currently, I don’t think anyone is using that one for anything.
I always think it stands for “In My A-Hole Opinion”
Saying IMAO is a bit clunky. I always just refer to you as That One Guy I Read.
anyways, you didn’t take our advice on what to call Buttercup, so I can’t really spend any time on this. I second Hippie Puncher if we’re voting.
if you had called it “frankly fabulous”, you might have attracted a few more of the swishy left-coast idjits that need to have their minds expanded 😉
I really thought the title was similar to LMAO,
but actually meant
Informing My Ass OffI have no recollection of how I stumbled upon IMAO, but two things quickly captured my interest: the T-shirt Babe (Good work Frank) and the acronym for “In My Arrogant Opinion”. It made me LMAO. I wouldn’t change a thing.
All this time I thought it meant: “In My Asshole Opinion.” I don’t mean that as an insult. I thought it was just funny.
“Fred Thompson’s Love Child”
“Semper Humorous”
I thought it stood for :Internetting My Ass Off.
When I first started getting into politics, I would actually avoid IMAO whenever it showed up in Google results, thinking the “MAO” part was referencing the commie Dear Leader. The moral of the story has something to do with books and covers; I’m too lazy to look it up.
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