Yet in the battle of the catchy traffic project nicknames, Carmageddon is the clear winner.
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Sometimes, the media bestows superlative nicknames on athletes before they have been truly earned.
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Map makers and coastguards are teaming up to collect "nicknames" for places to improve emergency responses.
Successive generations of young Japanese have earned nicknames like Bamboo Tribes or Speed Tribes.
Using favorite colors or cool nicknames to choose winners provides as good a chance as any scientific method.
Your parents swaddled and adored you and gave you nicknames like princess and honey love pot and sweetness.
Mr. BAILEY: Yeah, a lot of times you'll hear nicknames for the Thoroughbreds, you know, around the barn.
He also chose to call the players by their surnames rather than their first names, let alone their nicknames.
In some of the most popular group classes, movements have nicknames plucked from the intersection of innuendo and Urban Dictionary.
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Microbloggers can continue using nicknames as their online identities, as long as the weibo providers have their real-world identities on file.
But it also brings gives some of the less-serious soccer fans among us a chance to judge teams solely by their nicknames.
People gave it affectionate nicknames, including Tin Lizzie, flivver and jitney bus.
Japanese Web users, even popular bloggers, typically hide behind pseudonyms or nicknames.
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Also called the Eagles by those who demand that nicknames involve animals.
And they're usually not favorable nicknames because people don't like anything new.
This goes deeper than wooing Democrats with cute nicknames and party invitations.
The Personal Genome Project confirmed that 97% of the names matched those in its database if nicknames and first name variations were included.
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You might know some of her clients by the public nicknames they acquired: the Unabomber, the Olympic Park bomber and the 20th hijacker.
It didn't pay to get to know people - we knew each other based on where we were from, or we had nicknames.
Currently on a mini tour of the United States, Butterfly Boucher fluttered (sorry) into CNN this week to talk about heartache, grand pianos and nicknames.
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Could such hashtags create our personalized nicknames in a virtual future?
Holt hails from Nottingham, but missed out on one of snooker's most interesting nicknames, which has already being bagged by fellow East Midlander Anthony Hamilton.
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He signed players with renegade attitudes and nicknames straight out of pro wrestling: Ken (the Snake) Stabler, Jack (the Assassin) Tatum, Ted (the Mad Stork) Hendricks.
Companies might have also have been wary of being associated with the building's raft of nicknames, since the official "30 St Mary Axe" moniker never really stuck.
Mr Travis - known by the nicknames DLT and the Hairy Cornflake - is best known for his 25-year stint on Radio 1 which ended in 1993.
Mr Travis - whose nicknames included DLT and the Hairy Cornflake - is best known for his 25-year stint on BBC Radio 1 which ended in 1993.
For security reasons, the airmen referred to themselves by nicknames.
"I've always tried to partner with people who are way, way smarter than me, " said the Big Aristotle (one of his many nicknames), who retired from the NBA in 2011.
He was also devoted to the interests of Prussia's people, rejoicing in the nicknames of l'avocat du pauvre and le roi des gueux (poor man's advocate and king of the beggars).
While other Olympians go by heroic-sounding nicknames like "bullet" or "torpedo, " Abdirahman calls himself the "Black Cactus, " a reference to his race and to the Arizona landscape in which he trains.
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