I wasn't familiar with Modern Toss before my old mate Pete, bassist with the recently disbanded and slightly successful Cape Canaveral, sent me a copy this week. Not for the sensitive or faint hearted, two pages in and I was laughing so much I nearly puked.
Is that the Mr Tourette who climbed/walked out of Big Brother?
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 11 January 2007 at 01:48 PM
Sometimes I love Cooper.
Posted by: Blake | 11 January 2007 at 04:26 PM
Me too.
Posted by: Richard | 11 January 2007 at 04:58 PM
Who's Cooper?
And are they related to Mr Tourette?
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 11 January 2007 at 05:48 PM
Now David you know very well who Cooper is and that Mr Tourette is his cousin.
Posted by: Richard | 11 January 2007 at 08:57 PM
To be honest, I've always turned my nose up at the mention of Cooper Black. So I guess the same also applies to Tourette Blonde (although, I must admit, if Tourette Blonde was a Belgian beer I'd probably enjoy it).
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 11 January 2007 at 09:58 PM
I find, like with Clarendon, there are times when nothing suits better than a bit of Cooper Black. But you've made me think that it would be an excellent name for a dark ale or rather, over here, a stout...wouldn't it be ace to be able to order a pint of Cooper Black please landlord? And two glasses of Bembo Italic for the ladies.
Posted by: Richard | 11 January 2007 at 11:14 PM
Does Mrs Ace Jet know that you go out drinking with two willowy blondes on your arm?
For myself, I'm going to take up pig farming (like Ko Sliggers http://davidthedesigner.typepad.com/davidthedesigner/2006/11/ko_sliggers_mor.html ) - I want to save that rare breed, the Baskerville Old Face.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 12 January 2007 at 10:03 AM
That's brilliant David.
I'm trying to think of a gag for Trump Mediaeval but it just reminds me of nasty smells in Latin class.
What about popping down to the corner shop for a quarter of Poppl-Pontifex?
Posted by: Richard | 12 January 2007 at 10:30 AM
Well I don't want to boast about it, but I'm just working on a newspaper redesign. I'm using Braggadocio for the masthead.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 12 January 2007 at 11:06 AM
Wow. Braggadocio's cool and with a name like that it almost doesn't matter what it looks like. I'd like to see the results. Opportunities to use Braggadocio must come up about once every 50 years, which means it can only ever have been used about twice!
Posted by: Richard | 12 January 2007 at 11:37 AM
With the surname of Black, and a child recently born, first names such as Cooper for a boy and Helvetica for a girl were actually bandied about by me.... oh, the fun you could have.
Posted by: Warren Black | 23 January 2007 at 04:48 PM
Cooper would have been ace Warren, I'd love Seth to have a mate named after a typeface. Is Harryhausen registered yet? Is there still time?
Posted by: Richard | 23 January 2007 at 04:57 PM