Feel free to toot your own
vuvuzela by linking to your favorite post of the week (or month) from YOUR blog!
Not exact matches
The inclusion of
vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned
by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.
As a meme, «Anthropocene» has as yet little traction in scientific circles beyond geology and environmental science, let alone the wider culture: A Google check on «anthropocene» shows 78,700 references (mainly in geoscience), while
by contrast «placebo», a once - esoteric medical term now well - established as a meme, has more than 18 million (and even the freshly coined «
vuvuzela» has 3,650,000).
It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet - paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's
vuvuzela recycling competition.The contest, sponsored
by two South African advertising firms, drew more than 100 entries suggesting ways to reuse or recycle the plastic horns that blared throughout this year's World Cup matches.
In any event, I will be watching and waiting to see if the buzz comes anywhere close to the level created
by the
Vuvuzelas at the recent World Cup games.