# Help me come up with new silly slogans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340 "2011-08-03T17:30:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
**Page:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/81 "2011-08-15T18:30:24Z")

</div>

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> I SO wish this would work. Unfortunately, it does not.
> 
> Need more and sillier titles!

You can’t put Unicode text in title blocks? Let me try this…

ETA: I just whipped up an HTML page by hand, copied the upside-down text into the title element, and it worked!

```auto

<html>
<head>
<title>
¡ʇǝןqɐʇ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝpıs ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ɹǝʇʇǝq uǝʌǝ :sɹǝʇɹɐnbpɐǝɥ uoıʇɐuıɯop pןɹoʍ s,ʇɐɔןɐdo
</title>
</head>
<body>
This is a test.
</body>
</html>

```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![drbhoneydew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@drbhoneydew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drbhoneydew)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/82 "2011-08-15T19:39:32Z")

</div>

OpalCat’s Hello World Domination Headquarters  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Just add water  
OpalCat’s [del]Secret[/del] World Domination Headquarters  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Lowering IQ 1 point at a time  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: WANTED - Cheap, extinct volcano.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: FOR SALE - Volcano base. Some magma damage.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/83 "2011-08-15T21:38:11Z")

</div>

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Solar power can _too_ be used as a weapon!  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Change is good. Folding money is better.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Facebook is just one of our fronts.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: ∫2x dx = x^2 + C  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: shoveling coal is fun!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/84 "2011-08-16T04:09:04Z")

</div>

> [@Sunspace](#):
>
> You can’t put Unicode text in title blocks? Let me try this…

I can’t put it into the text file that the random script pulls from.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/85 "2011-08-16T05:30:41Z")

</div>

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> I can’t put it into the text file that the random script pulls from.

Hmm. With a Unicode-aware text editor, I can type using the US Extended keyboard mapping on my Mac and save it as UTF-8 (or any other Unicode encoding such as UTF-16).

Are you on a Mac? What text editor are you using? My text editors give me the choice of saving with UTF-8 encoding.

Does the script language not handle Unicode?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/86 "2011-08-16T12:26:36Z")

</div>

I’m just using Notepad and when I paste the code in it just looks like squares.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/87 "2011-08-16T12:29:18Z")

</div>

Hmm it looks like I can turn on unicode in Notepad. I’ll give it a try.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/88 "2011-08-16T22:49:20Z")

</div>

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: You can check out any time you like(But you can never leave)

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: 500,000 watts of P-funk power!

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: There must be some kind of way outta here (said the joker to the thief)

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Never gonna Give you up…

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: I am the Eggman! I am the walrus!

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Now that ain’t working, that’s the way you do it!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/89 "2011-08-17T00:06:09Z")

</div>

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: …and Feetquarters!  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Your visit may be recorded for quality control.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Ohm sweet Ohm.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Guaranteed at 160 mph or 110 mph sideways.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Unauthorized personnel only. If you belong here, get out.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: The lesser of 2 Weebls.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: Moo Ha Moo Ha Little cheese.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: I don’t like carrots; gimme the stick.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: OpalCat was cool before cool was cool.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: That’s not a quarter, it’s a dollar coin.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/90 "2011-08-17T01:06:59Z")

</div>

OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: this year’s colours are puce, mauve, ecru, and blue.  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: our banknotes don’t _need_ to be made of plastic.  
ØpälCàt’s Wörld Dôminåtïōn Hęãdquªrtérs: Nòw wíth ácçēñts!  
OpalCat’s World Domination Headquarters: 11001011 11000000 10011111 00110110

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/91 "2011-08-18T04:40:58Z")

</div>

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> Hmm it looks like I can turn on unicode in Notepad. I’ll give it a try.

Nope, comes out as blocks in Chrome, at least, when the page loads.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/92 "2011-08-19T01:31:53Z")

</div>

In honor of a recent Google doodle:

OCWDHQ: We have discovered a truly marvelous proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem which this title is too narrow to contain

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/93 "2011-08-19T01:43:36Z")

</div>

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> Nope, comes out as blocks in Chrome, at least, when the page loads.

What OS are you using? I’ll see whether I can scare up a freeware Unicode-aware text editor.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/94 "2011-08-19T21:21:32Z")

</div>

Oh I can get Notepad to save it in Unicode (figured out how) but when I upload that file and load the page, it comes out as squares.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![drbhoneydew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@drbhoneydew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drbhoneydew)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340/95 "2011-08-19T21:47:17Z")

</div>

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> Nope, comes out as blocks in Chrome, at least, when the page loads.

> [@OpalCat](#):
>
> Oh I can get Notepad to save it in Unicode (figured out how) but when I upload that file and load the page, it comes out as squares.

It’s not a notepad issue - it’s a combination of browser and O/S issue. It sounds like your system font doesn’t have glyphs for the Unicode characters involved. There’s a [stack overflow question about this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393864/why-other-languages-character-doesnt-show-in-browser-title-bar)  
.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-new-silly-slogans/591340.md?page=4)