Word: booed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boo hoo, poor Microsoft, getting pushed around by that big ol' bully, the American government. I appreciated the "everybody-loves-an-underdog" sentiment of senior David M. Weld's "Booing Bill Gates" commentary (Nov. 18), but he is sadly misled in his Panglossian views on Microsoft's "evil empire...
...Yogi, Scooby Doo and Barnacle Bill. Someone high up in NASA must have issued a firm directive: "Keep it cuddly, guys. We don't want Mars to seem like, you know, outer space." So when Sojourner bumped into one of the rocks, we were told Yogi gave her a "boo-boo," and when she (yes, the robot is a girl) made a close approach to another one, we were informed that "Sojourner and Barnacle Bill are holding hands." Kind of made you look at the vast red deserts of the two-mooned planet and want to go "Coochy-coochy...
...Boo, hiss, a strategic alliance indeed. Is Jobs crazy? "Madman at the wheel, eh?" he said, laughing, as he walked off the stage in Boston...
...seems shrewd as a public relations ploy, but flies in the face of naming heavenly bodies after illustrious figures of myth, science and literature. Will the first earthly Mars walker who greets these familiar objects on site at Ares Vallis be likely to record for posterity the query "Dr. Boo-Boo, I presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities? Or has the dumbing-down process finally reduced communication on such topics to the level...
Barnacle Bill. Yogi. Casper. Scooby Doo. Flat Top, Boo-Boo. The Couch. Souffle. After billions of years of anonymity, a motley collection of rocks on the Martian flood plain called Ares Vallis at last had names of their own. And back on Earth last week, the Pathfinder scientists who had playfully nicknamed the rocks were enjoying, as one of them phrased it, "a rock festival," reveling in the torrent of data being yielded by the rock stars and their surroundings...