# Clever magazine names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378 "2018-09-15T04:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/21 "2018-09-18T17:40:25Z")
Most folks associate “BYO” with “Bring Your Own (beer)”; the [magazine](https://byo.com/) by the same name is “Brew Your Own (beer)”. It’s not terribly clever, but the name [Modern Drunkard](https://drunkard.com/) always makes me laugh a little inside. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/22 "2018-09-18T18:33:18Z")
I came in to say 2600 because I figured there was no way in the world anyone else remembers that was a thing but I should have known better 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/23 "2018-09-20T03:21:57Z")
I like **Fangoria** , the magazine for fans of horror films. Very cool that they get “fan,” “gore,” and “fang” into the same word. ---
**Author:** ![ebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebb)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/24 "2018-09-20T14:13:25Z")
Infocom, the company that used to make text adventure games, had a quarterly newsletter called _The New Zork Times_. (“All the Grues That Fit, We Print”). Until the Gray Lady told them to knock it off and they re-titled as, I think, _The Status Line_. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/25 "2018-09-22T23:39:33Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _ **Grump** _–a short-lived satirical magazine put out by Roger Price (co-creator of Mad Libs). Its tagline was “For people who are against all the DUMB THINGS going on.” Wow I forgot about that nifty little periodical. My mom also used to subscribe to a newsletter called [The Underground Grammarian](https://sourcetext.com/grammarian/) and a quarterly called [The Utne Reader](https://www.utne.com/) I could list a bunch of scungey punk/hc/metal zine titles from back in the day, heh, if I could remember any. Of course, what list of clever magazine names would be complete without mention of Rita and Uncle Trevor’s [Bumpaddle](http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Bumpaddle) Magazine. Surprised no alt-righters have come up with a MAGAzine. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/26 "2018-09-22T23:42:15Z")
Crawdaddy Oh, and [Girls and Corpses](http://www.girlsandcorpses.com/) Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/27 "2018-09-22T23:48:21Z")
The cleverest magazine title of all time belonged to sadly defunct New Zealand feminist magazine [Broadsheet.](https://broadsheet.auckland.ac.nz/) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/28 "2018-09-23T00:13:48Z")
Unusual, although you might not call it “clever,” was a magazine that published just a handful of issues (4?) in the 1960’s, _Horseshit,_ put out by the two Dunker brothers in Hermosa Beach, California. Subscribe and you got a handful of posters as a bonus, with text like, “Buy Bonds, Burn a Baby,” and “Be a Man,” illustrated with a soldier in full battle dress, his pants down, sporting a rather diminutive penis. Needless to say, the army didn’t like those posters much when I put them on my locker. The army is not a good place to try to assert free speech. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/29 "2018-09-23T03:45:50Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Needless to say, the army didn’t like those posters much when I put them on my locker. The army is not a good place to try to assert free speech. Apparently the asserting part went just fine; it might be the defending that’s the tricky part. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/30 "2018-09-24T16:47:35Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Not too many “clever magazine names”, precisely because most try to be clear what their subject is _(Popular Mechanics, Road&Track,_ even the hippest magazine I ever read was just called _Interview)._ > > But I saw [a tiny magazine on the rack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly), at Barnes & Noble of all places, called \ ***2600**. \*And I thought “a 'zine of illegal hacks?” Yep. 2600 is the frequency that, whistled into a phone receiver, would grant you access to the admin level of any phone system. > “The magazine’s name comes from the phreaker discovery in the 1960s that the transmission of a 2600 hertz tone (which could be produced perfectly with a plastic toy whistle given away free with Cap’n Crunch cereal) over a long-distance trunk connection gained access to “operator mode” and allowed the user to explore aspects of the telephone system that were not otherwise accessible.” Two weeks late but if you’ve a deep interest in phreaker history, I recommend [_Exploding the Phone_](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B009SAV5W0/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title), which covers from the earliest days\* on up to when everything fell apart. Even before the famous Cap’n Crunch whistle there was the Dan’l Boone Bird-calling whistle which you could buy at a five and dime store. Full disclosure: I know the guy. \*Hell, he even covers the rise of the Bell System and the engineering triumph of fully automated long distance direct dial, which is what set things into motion. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/31 "2018-09-24T18:23:54Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > FourFourTwo - a football [ie soccer] magazine of course. > > [_Four forwards, four midfielders and two backs is a standard football formation_] Actually, I would have thought it would have been a magazine for certain muscle cars of the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/32 "2018-09-24T21:00:42Z")
_Mythopoeia_ which was about created fantasy universes and mythologies, especially Tolkien’s. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/33 "2018-09-27T05:33:44Z")
_Heeb_ magazine (subtitled “The New Jew Review”). The magazine ended in 2010, but they still have a website. > **[Shazam! The Heeb Review](http://heebmagazine.com/)** > > Jewdar has learned to approach DC movies like a mistreated dog approaching hand offering scraps of food.  Sure, there's a good chance that I'll end up getting kicked, but that slight chance that I'll get a piece of a hot dog keeps me coming back... > **[Heeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeb)** > > Heeb is a Jewish website (and from 2001 to 2010, a quarterly magazine) aimed predominantly at young Jews. The name of the publication is a variation of the ethnic slur "hebe", an abbreviation of Hebrew. However, in this case, the word "heeb" seeks to function as empowerment for the Jewish community, thus eliminating the hatred associated with the word. > The magazine was founded by Jennifer Bleyer, a graduate of Columbia University, and backed financially by Steven Spielberg and Charles Bronfman.... ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/34 "2018-09-27T05:52:50Z")
The there is the horror magazine that’s only published on braille. It’s called ‘Feel and Scream’. Ok, I’ll go now. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/35 "2018-09-27T10:34:07Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > The there is the horror magazine that’s only published on braille. It’s called ‘Feel and Scream’. > > Ok, I’ll go now. No, please stay! That was funny! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/36 "2018-09-28T16:43:26Z")
Prof. Pepperwinkle, are you sure there was a magazine named _Mythopoeia_? I can’t find any mention of it. There’s the Mythopoeic Society, which publishes magazines like _Mythprint_ and _Mythlore_, as I mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![epolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@epolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epolo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378/37 "2018-09-28T19:03:52Z")
There’s a medical journal dedicated to cerebral infarctions called Stroke. I’m reluctant to try to find the link to their site as I don’t really want to Google “stroke magazine” at work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-magazine-names/821378.md?page=1)