Name Nominally Challenged!

The unfortunate result of this is that my body has finally caught up with me and is now punishing me for doing too much work in too short a period of time. In my malaise, then (and its colleague, boredom), as I sit here in bed watching Eddie Izzard clips on YouTube and attempting to teach my dog that "fetch" implies "and bring back to me" rather than simply "go to object, bark and look cute", I have decided that a small competition is in order.

The competition is as follows.

Way back in the mists of time, in fact, in around January 2005, a matter of days after commencing this blog, I wrote the following:

And I fully intend to run a serious name competition - entitled (oddly enough)
"Name Nominally Challenged!". But, before I do that, I need to make sure that
you could even give a damn, so I shall keep on typing, and hope that something
that I write strikes a chord somewhere, with someone. Someday. Some - well, you
get the idea.

That was because, then as now, the name "Nominally Challenged" is, well, not a very good name, although I admit that it has sort of stuck. The problematic nature of this name really hit home a few days ago when ze vonderful Lisa, in referring to a post I'd written, called me (and I quote), "Nomchy" (scroll down, you'll come to it). While I was dutifully endeared, I realized that there was something wrong with this.

Now, I will be so bold as to say that apparently, some of the things that I write seem to strike chords in some places, and some persons may care to offer suggestions as to what my Blogging Name should be. Note, I am not proposing to change the actual name of my blog. I think that "A Whiff of the Med" is a good name which says many things, some of which I may even agree with. However, "Nominally Challenged" has done its dash and I think it's time for a makeover.

I think that the name should be pertinent to the blog and its contents and I invite your suggestions accordingly. Please make it creative, people, and not too offensive - remember, my grandmother doesn't read this blog, but yours might. Finally, just in case anyone was considering this - variations on my actual given name are, by definition almost, not creative.




Oh. P.S. - I haven't come up with a prize yet, so suggestions for prizes will be welcome as well. I don't promise to accept any of the proposed names or prizes, but it will be fun to see what you people can come up with.