There are many challenges to starting your own blog: getting a good template, choosing your audience, and having time to maintain it once it's up. While these may be important, the critical factor for us was getting the blog name right. A bad, un-funny name can totally ruin a blog by boring people before they even get to the contents. Something like "A chronicle of Nick and Lauren's 'new' life in Birmingham England by weblog" would have our potential readers signing off en masse. Our subtitle "2 American cowboys rustlin' us up some culture"didn't come easily; there were quite a few rejects. Read on for the ones that didn't make the cut, and let us know if you think we made a mistake.
YANKS IN THE UK:
-What happens when two 20-somethings leave the American bubble for life in England?
-The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Europe edition
-Two American Patriots bringing the "No taxation without representation" mantra straight to King George...230 years too late.
-New meets Olde: when worldes collide
-All this rain is hell on our cowboy chaps.
-Two ungrateful yanks undo all their ancestors hard immigratin' work by moving right back where they came from.
-Is Leicestershire even pronounceable?
-Watch as two apple-pie loving, backyard barbequing Americans experience a life of porridge and meat pies.
-What the heck are we doing here?
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6 comments:
Yeah, I like the one you picked.
That night at the Eagles must have had quite an impact!
the burdette side of the family is sadly underrepresented in this comments section, so i figured i would give my two cents and say that, while a laughed a good bit at your roignal subtitle, i thought you had a winner with "Is Leicestershire even pronounceable?"
You are certainly a brilliant comic Lauren (I think Lauren wrote this if not forgive me Nick) I like them all but I agree with greg I think "Is Leicestershire even pronounceable?" is the best. you have inspired me to blog again your pictures on picasa are amazing. keep em comin
-G
a rapid-fire response:
Mom - yes, the night of country music, line-dancing, cowboy boots, cheap beer and eagle pictures as far as the eye can see sums up all that we left behind.
Greg - way to represent. Burdettes are still under-represented, though.
Garret - I can't take the credit, it was all Nick, but I'm flattered. That is high praise if you are inspired to blog again, and we'll be giving yours a good read. Look for pics of Rome and our flat beginning of next week!
- the Lauren in "Nick & Lauren"
bt'Where new meets Olde' woyde been a verily politick choyce.
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