Christopher Rush
We kid because we love. For the last few years, despite what light-hearted comments we may have made, in all sincerity we know that several of you worked many long hours (especially Mrs. Spaulding) putting together the quarterly newspaper for Summit Christian Academy. We at Redeeming Pandora would like to salute your effort by including a list of rejected names for the newspaper. We shall always think of it as SCA Today, but our hope is that as we peruse and delight in this list of rejected names, we shall always remember the good work you did.
1. We Did This Instead of our Homework
2. The Monthly Newspaper: Published Once a Month
3. Eagle Droppings of News
4. Summit Shenanigans
5. News: Fresh and Moist
6. Naturally Smooth News
7. News So Good You Could Spit
8. Piddlings, Twiddlings, and Resolvings
9. Yesterday’s News Today
10. Daily Summit Pantograph
11. Heraldic Triumph
12. Chiliast Reports
13. Achtung! It’s Newstime!
14. Uncovered Items of Varying Interest
15. Now You Know
16. Big Bethel Tidbits
17. Hill of Beans
18. News: Hot and Saucy — Texas Style!
19. Straight from the J-Team’s Mouths!
20. Read This
21. The Last Newspaper of Your Lifetime
22. Not For the Squeamish
23. You Have to be This Tall to Read the News
24. Underclass Assessments
25. Kiss Me: I’m on the J-Team
26. We Could Have Done This Without You
27. Cheap News for Cheap Students
28. Fowl Ups
29. Egrets? I’ve Had a Few…
30. Hydrophobic News for the Unwashed
31. News: Raw and Unshaven
32. WWJRTN?: Why Wouldn’t Jesus Read This Newspaper?
33. Behold, the News!
34. Quiet Please! News in Progress
35. News to Cheer You Up or Depress You (Whichever)
36. Spauldinglicious
37. News You Can Trust (ish)
38. News for People Who Don’t Read Newspapers
39. News We Broke on Purpose
40. With 6 You Get Eggrolls
41. Which Newspaper Title Will Win?
42. Poindexter Press
43. Hearken to Our News Stories
44. News to Cleanse Your Shame
45. The Bee’s Knees Newspaper
46. Dishwasher and Microwave Safe News
47. Property of PCC
48. News So Clean You Could Lick It
49. E-News on Paper
50. Cheesy Gordita News Crunch
51. No I.D. Needed News
52. News Even Koalas Would Like
53. News to Your Mother
54. News with a Gooey, Nougat Center
55. You Don’t Rock
56. The Rest of the Rest of the Story
57. Value Added News (So You Don’t Have To)
58. Postnews, Postmodern Style
59. Wha-Bam!
60. usNews
61. Headlines Don’t Sell Papes: The J-Team Sells Papes
62. Covenantal Colloquy
63. Terpsichorean Twaddle
64. News to Gird Your Loins By
65. In That Day
66. Sorry I’m Late!
67. No Hands Allowed
68. Plundered News Booty
69. Based on Real Events
70. So Easy Even Summit Can Do It
71. Newslift: No Botox Included
72. This News May Include Peanuts
73. News for Sissy Britches
74. We’ve Got Your News Right Here!
75. Hot Fudge News
76. Don’t Go There
77. Oh Yes We Did!
78. Oh My!
79. News You Don’t Have to Write Home About
80. Headlines? I Barely Know You
81. Snap, Crackle, News!
82. It All Started in a 500-Watt Newspaper Press in Yorktown, Virginia
83. News You Can Stick Anywhere
84. Splenda™-coated News
85. ¡Contenido Caliente!
86. Loquacivity
87. Extra Pulp News
88. Monozygotic Diatribe
89. Purified by Reverse Peristalsis
90. SCAtalogue
91. No Word from Our Sponsors
92. Screw This To Your Sticking Place
93. RenWeb Approves
94. It’s About to Get all Newsworthy Up in Here!
95. Go Ahead: Try Me
96. Buckle Up! It’s About to Get Bumpy!
97. Flammable
98. Solitary Dialectics
99. For the Bumptious Articles Within All of Us
100. Reheats as Well as Macaroni and Cheese
101. Lather, News, Repeat
102. My Other Newspaper is a Scholarly Journal
103. We Tried
104. Goes Great with Stuffing
105. Shouldn’t You?
106. Giggles Aplenty
107. Deposits of Orichalcum
108. Lost Monologues of Plato
109. Michael Wood’s Hand-me-Downs
110. Who Watches the J-Team?
111. Translated from Linear B Texts
112. Intellectual Placebos
113. Silver and Gold Gilding
114. Eric Sevareid’s Forgotten Memoirs
115. Mimetic Reports
116. News for Commonfolk
117. Dispatches from the Near-Front
118. Candied Yams for the Mind
119. Join Us
120. Bigger Bethel Broadcast
121. Chongo-longo!
122. Bronze Age Nibbles
123. Come Rub Elbows with the J-Team
124. Stick a Fork in Us
125. You’ll Like It: It’s Not a Fundraiser
126. No Prescription Necessary
127. Wait ’til You See the Swimsuit Issue!
128. Florescent Light Orchestra
129. Earwood Lang Overdrive
130. Águila Discharge
131. Use Your Imagination
132. Wash Before Reading
133. Don’t Wait for the Movie
134. Recycle Later
135. Tú Madre
136. Free Dress Day Coupon Inside
137. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Summit (But Were Afraid to Ask)
138. News for the Untucked
139. Night Train to Newstown
140. Top Shelf News
141. Good Times
142. Why Not?
143. The Joy of Summit
144. Available in Magenta
145. This Will Make Your Blood Boil
146. No Nuts
147. Summit Fried News
148. Scotch-Guarded Missives
149. Lemon Bars are Extra
150. Top Off Your News
151. News from the Hoodie
152. Ding!
153. “Go Home and Study”
154. Lubricant for the Soul
155. Obligation-Free Notions
156. This is Pretty Much It
157. Dial: 4209
158. The Entrée Today: Summit News
159. Feelin’ Newsy?
160. Can I Tell You About the News?
161. A Good Ol’ News Rag that Will Help Wipe Up Your Personal Messes
162. Front-to-Back, Back-to-Front: It’s News
163. It’s the News, Baby
164. Here, Have Some News
165. Newspaper Today, Wrapping Paper Tomorrow
166. Fish-n-chips Free
167. Oh Snap! and Other Current Events
168. Bag of Chips Not Included
169. Stuffed to the Hilt with News
170. News — Unplugged After a Fashion
171. Seats 5 … Okay, 6
172. Time to Snuggle with the News
173. Kept at a Suitable Temperature
174. Twice-Baked News
175. Ready-Made News Fronds
176. Silent Lunch? Seriously?
177. In English (Because You’re American)
178. Choose Your Own News
179. Tax Free for Now
180. Read This for Honors Credit
181. Newsflash Dances (Rain Extra)
182. Oh Yes
183. Say…!
184. Not Available for Downloading
185. Truly Magisterial
186. Periodic News
187. What Else Do You Have to Do?
188. Just Enough Bias to Make it Interesting
189. Bite-sized
190. Use Your Illusion III
191. A — E — I — Oh You Know It!
192. Today Yorktown, Tomorrow the World!
193. News: Pre-Dropped Low
194. Thank You For Your Custom
195. Aboriginal Inquiry
196. It’s Like a Petting Zoo for News
197. Organic News Harvested from Free-Range Reporters
198. Love-encrusted News
199. Ensconced in News
200. It Takes Time, Okay?
201. Postgnostications
202. What Sort of Hijinks Has Summit Gotten Itself into Now?
203. Situational Newsality
204. News: Double-dipped, Double-awesome
205. Come Bathe in Our News
206. Bringing Dignity to this Troubled Peninsula
207. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
208. Newsborne Pathogens
209. Old Chansons in a New Key
210. We Hold These News to be Self-evident
211. You Dropped the News on Us
212. Spangled Globules of News
213. Putting on Eyries
214. Gentle News Caresses
215. Mostly Graham
216. If It’s Not Here, It Didn’t Happen
217. A Lovely Day for News
218. Won’t You Be Our Reader?
219. Newstastic
220. I Think Your Paper’s Fabulous!
221. You Can’t Afford Not to Read This
222. Caffeine-Free News
223. Good for the Gander
224. News d’Amour
225. Come News Away with Me
226. Steele in the News
227. Scrumptious News Offerings
228. A Third Ordinance
229. Tweetless
230. News ‘n’ Peppa
231. Stocking Stuffers
232. That’s What We Said, That’s What the J-Team Said, We Said That!
233. Take It or Leave It
234. Bright Shining News All Over
235. News from the Loft
236. News: Head Coverings Optional
237. Your News (Even if You Have a Man Purse)
238. Get Out Your 12-sided Dice: The News is Here
239. News in Low-Def
240. Hoo-Boy!
241. News from the 16th Hole
242. Oh Yeah!
243. Just Plain Radical
244. Actually, We Are College Prep
245. News to Shepherd Your Inmost Desires
246. Fifth Army Gazette
247. News for Left-handed Moths
248. It’s Either This or Study Hall
249. News by Which to Better Understand Wolves
250. More Than the Minium
251. Tessellated Patterns of Beauty
252. N*E*W*S
253. In Glorious Black and White (No Offense)
254. Classically Delicious
255. Newswich with a Side of Awesome
256. Idylls of the … Thing
257. Rock, Paper, Scissors — News!
258. News Up In Your Grille
259. Newsical Goo Goo, Newsical Ga Ga
260. It’s a Party (and You’re Invited)
261. News Box Hero
262. Better Than Cool
263. Remedial News Awash in Fortune
264. Hope for the Newsless
265. Could It Possibly Get Any Better Than This?
266. News? More Like a Lifestyle
267. News to Save Your Love Life
268. Teenage Newsland
269. Caution: News At Play
270. Smile: The News is Watching
271. You Sunk My Newspaper!
272. Why Can’t It Be Us?
273. It’s Up to Us: Choose Now
274. News. Plain.
275. News Outside, Joy Inside
Those were good times. We were all so young. The sun was bright, the birds were singing … people seemed to laugh more then. It was a good run while it lasted, J-Team. You did some good work back there. Don’t think of these names as a jab or slight — remember, we kid because we love. This list is included as a fun, fond farewell to the exciting opportunity you gave us to think of a name for you. Every time we look at this list, we’ll think of you. I know we kid around once in a while, but if we can be serious for a moment: you did something you can truly be proud of when you look back on your high school career. Hail and farewell.
