Catch the fever. Let your voice be heard.
Cute idea, but I don't think it will fly.
I hope to hell that this slogan doesn't stick. I wouldn't want our star receiver's name to be associated with those car butchers!
You can't manufacture this kind of thing, it has to arise naturally from the players and fans. The proposal in the blog is the surest way to make sure this doesn't happen. Plus, it is the absolute worst name for a nickname I've ever heard in my life. My first reaction is to make an association with the oil-change chain or a "personal lubricant".
That is sick . Just say no Geroy!
Amen
I posted my comment at "Geroy is Mr Lube" but it didn't show up?? So, I'll do it here, although I'm reluctant to justify this ridiculous proposal with any response at all.
I think this is the cheesiest, tackiest idea I've heard of. Geroy's better than this and need not stoop so low. Why on earth should he connect his name to a lube joint? Commercialism sucks. Bad idea.
You've shown a total lack of faith in this team and don't deserve to "nickname" Geroy at all. Your suggestion that we were in trouble and "Mr. Lube" was the answer clearly demonstrates what little confidence you have in the actual players. Some of us believe/know that THEY can get the job done (they did) and we don't need any mascot's help with that. Geroy always manages to come through when we need him (and without the help of Mr. Lube, I might add). This isn't "new" info and, as someone who's obviously just jumped on the Simon bandwagon, you should probably stick to cheering for the team like the rest of us and let others handle the PR work. It seems you've got some learning to do before you take over the team's affairs.
Longtime true blue Geroy fans (like me) know that he needs no "nickname"...chanting "Geroy" shows our respect and is all that's necessary. His name says it all and stands alone. Why mess with that?
And to use anything "Looo" related would also show a total lack of respect to Lui, whose chant is his and his alone - despite what you add before/after. Leave that one alone as far as I'm concerned.
Sorry to be so long winded. I get rather defensive when it comes to my favorite players...and Geroy and Lui just happen to be two of them.
Deb, your response was posted on the blog. You just needed to refresh the page to see it. Here's the response from the author that's on the blog:
"Deb, your points are truly intriguing. I offer you these observations, however, which may help lessen the anxiety you are feeling over Geroy's inevitable adoption of the moniker "Mr. Lube":
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The chant is not "Llloooou" with something added before/after. This would make no sense. Thing about it. It would sound like this: "Luh-luh-looou". Or maybe “Luh-yoooou? (Spanish). No one would ever make either of these noises. It would be silly.
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Still on the "Llloooou" front, note that the new "Mr. Luuuube" cheer doesn't include the letter "o" anywhere in it. The dominate letter from the "Loooou" cheer is notably absent. I can't imagine a cheer more "entirely new" for Geroy.
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Re: "Giving up hope". You seem to have missed the point. I was merely attesting to my deep love of Mascot Soccer and my incredible disgust for the hapless band of scavengers known as the Edmonton Eskimos in the “Our Story? commentary. Those two factors made the game SEEM less important in relation to the "Mr. Lube" related events. This DOES NOT mean I don't bleed Orange and Black, as you do. I do. They won't let me give blood, anymore. The woman fainted when she stuck the needle in last time. It was terrible. I HAVE INCREDIBLE FAITH. So much that I am certain of the result of the game before it begins (esp. when playing the drunken bobsledders of Edmonton).
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Re: Commercialism. I agree. Corporations, especially those involved with the greasy underside of automobiles) are dirty and gross. THAT'S WHY CORPORATIONS NEED GEROY. He'll clean them up. HE'LL GET IT DONE. RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES.
Deb, I understand your concerns. But I think your greatest fear is a fear of change, of death. But mustn't we all confront our mortality? Can we not let the "Loooou" cheer (or your odd "Llloooou" derivative), pass into the night, like all the other great men, women, monkeys, and other, lesser, primates that have come before?
Perhaps, Deb, it would comfort you to think of the "Loooou" cheer as a phoenix. It did not die when Lui retired, but waited to be reborn, this time with a "Mr." at the front and a nub of "be" at the end (and, significantly, no "o"s).
Soar like the phoenix, Deb. Soar with us."
weak article, weak nickname. Geroy is too awesome for a dumb nickname like that. I think that name would better suit a RB anyways. Geroy is more of a speedster.
[quote="geroyismrlube"]Deb, your response was posted on the blog. You just needed to refresh the page to see it. Here's the response from the author that's on the blog:
"Deb, your points are truly intriguing. I offer you these observations, however, which may help lessen the anxiety you are feeling over Geroy's inevitable adoption of the moniker "Mr. Lube":
- The chant is not "Llloooou" with something added before/after. This would make no sense. Thing about it. It would sound like this: "Luh-luh-looou". Or maybe “Luh-yoooou? (Spanish). No one would ever make either of these noises. It would be silly.
Lol, your trying to justify this? Give it up buddy.
- Still on the "Llloooou" front, note that the new "Mr. Luuuube" cheer doesn't include the letter "o" anywhere in it. The dominate letter from the "Loooou" cheer is notably absent. I can't imagine a cheer more "entirely new" for Geroy.
So what if it doesn't have letter o in it you fool. It still sounds the same, and lui's name doesn't have an O in it either your freakin idiot.
- Re: "Giving up hope". You seem to have missed the point. I was merely attesting to my deep love of Mascot Soccer and my incredible disgust for the hapless band of scavengers known as the Edmonton Eskimos in the “Our Story? commentary. Those two factors made the game SEEM less important in relation to the "Mr. Lube" related events. This DOES NOT mean I don't bleed Orange and Black, as you do. I do. They won't let me give blood, anymore. The woman fainted when she stuck the needle in last time. It was terrible. I HAVE INCREDIBLE FAITH. So much that I am certain of the result of the game before it begins (esp. when playing the drunken bobsledders of Edmonton).
I'd give up too, you don't have faith at all, you don't even know how to spell lui's name you idiot.
- Re: Commercialism. I agree. Corporations, especially those involved with the greasy underside of automobiles) are dirty and gross. THAT'S WHY CORPORATIONS NEED GEROY. He'll clean them up. HE'LL GET IT DONE. RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES.
Get the hell out of BC Lions country before you get eaten by the lions fans. Mr.Lube is crap and if you actually need to go there your an idiot too. Anybody who isn't lazy can change their own bloody oil.
Deb, I understand your concerns. But I think your greatest fear is a fear of change, of death. But mustn't we all confront our mortality? Can we not let the "Loooou" cheer (or your odd "Llloooou" derivative), pass into the night, like all the other great men, women, monkeys, and other, lesser, primates that have come before?
Perhaps, Deb, it would comfort you to think of the "Loooou" cheer as a phoenix. It did not die when Lui retired, but waited to be reborn, this time with a "Mr." at the front and a nub of "be" at the end (and, significantly, no "o"s).
Soar like the phoenix, Deb. Soar with us."
Soar like the phoenix? Listen up pal i'm 22 and i still don't think the Lui chant should die. And lui's name is spel LuI you FREAKING IDIOT there's NO FUCKING O, you are such an idiot its unbelievable that you are actually a human being. And you DON"T TELL US when the LUI chant will die, LUI not LOU is the highest scoring kicker in PRO FOOTBALL HISTORY and he played 25 years in VANCOUVER, there will be NO MR.LUBE chant EVER. If there is i'm gonna start throwin punches straight over to wherever the "mr.lube" section is gonna be. Its bad enough that there's a BC Ferrie's section. Why do we need a BC Ferrie's sectioN? We all know what the BC Ferrie's are; therfore, it does not warrant advertisment espescially after the eye gouging fares just to bored a stinking boat. Like the oldest form of travel on planet earth is also expensive as hell and that was because of the NDP and the fastcats, thats not our fault.
SO i can go on and on, the MR LUBE chant will die here in this forum. Please close this thread and any others like it, and also please ban this guy from ever being on this forum again.
Man, I'm sorry, but I am totally against calling Geroy "Mr. Lube". Geroy doesn't need a nickname, he's already made a name for himself as the best reciever in the league.
i agree with dat geroy is the bomb!!!! i think he will lay the smack down on whoever they face in the greycup and w.finals he kicks butttttttttttttttt
From the pages of the GIML campaign site:
http://geroyismrlube.blogspot.com
Last night’s 7 periods of agonizing, lazy-boy reclining excitement featured a number of milestones. It was the longest overtime game in Canucks history, the most shots we’ve ever allowed on goal, and the coming out party for Roberto Luongo, who blossomed into full-figured, post-season womanhood before our very eyes.
All of these milestones pale in comparison to the noise that echoed from the beer-addled throats of Canucks fans all game: Looooooooooooou. (Or is this one just “Luuuuu?? It’s hard to keep up). Granted, the chant has been used all season long whenever Luongo made a good save, but never before to this extent or ferocity. I mean, people were “Luuuu?ing when he adjusted his comical hockey pants, for goodness sake.
The point is the “Looooooou? chant – Lui Passaglia’s chant – has officially gained a new dimension and crossed over into hockey. The city has embraced this new “Luuuu? chant with open arms. But where is the resistance? The push back from all the incisor-gnashing maniacs we call football-chatroom-fanatics, who wish to maintain the purity of the chant?
Well, folks, they’re tired. They’re defeated. And I can say unequivocally, it was the Geroy is Mr. Lube campaign that broke them.
Here are a few excerpts from the chatrooms of the intranet to illuminate the drunk-on-Sunday-morning bravado they bring to their defense of the original “Loooooou? chant (against our proposed “Mr. Luuuuuube? chant):
“Nope...anything with "Llloooou" in it is wrong, despite what is added before/after. Lui's chant is his own - anything along those lines just doesn't do justice for Geroy OR Lui. Geroy's deserving of something entirely his own.?
– deb, the intranet (probably her pool room)
“So what if it doesn't have letter o in it you fool. It still sounds the same, and lui's name doesn't have an O in it either your freakin idiot.?
- vanhalendlrband, the intranet (jail?)
“Listen up pal i'm 22 and i still don't think the Lui chant should die. And lui's name is spel LuI you FREAKING IDIOT there's NO **** O, you are such an idiot its unbelievable that you are actually a human being. And you DON"T TELL US when the LUI chant will die, LUI not LOU is the highest scoring kicker in PRO FOOTBALL HISTORY and he played 25 years in VANCOUVER, there will be NO MR.LUBE chant EVER. If there is i'm gonna start throwin punches straight over to wherever the "mr.lube" section is gonna be. Its bad enough that there's a BC Ferrie's section. Why do we need a BC Ferrie's sectioN? We all know what the BC Ferrie's are; therfore, it does not warrant advertisment espescially after the eye gouging fares just to bored a stinking boat. Like the oldest form of travel on planet earth is also expensive as hell and that was because of the NDP and the fastcats, thats not our fault.?
- vanhalendlrband, the intranet (22, in jail, convinced I am not human, and not a big fan of BC Ferries)
Wow. Virulent, you might say? Indeed. But such is the passion of the Lions fan/inter-nerd, and she/he should not be faulted for that. The truth is all of us here at the Geroy is Mr. Lube campaign knew what an uphill battle it would be to show the world the dynamic, lasting future that the near-extinct “Loooooou? chant could look forward to if we only applied a little creativity. We pushed forward, and the debs and vanhalendlrbands of the internet pushed back. Their mouths foamed and eventually they collapsed, exhausted.
And through this vaccuum of resistance plowed the Roberto Luongo “Luuuuuu? freight train. With the birth of this chant, another whole segment of sports fans can now watch the game on TV and ask their friends, “Why are they booing their own guy? He just made a great play!? over and over and over again. And ultimately, who will said confused sports fan have to thank for this development? That’s right, the trailblazers here at GIML.
Like a veritable Red River wagon, we cut a swathe through the internet chatroom equivalent of the Oregon Trail, complete with the usual dramatics of river fording, snake biting and buffalo shooting (and then some more buffalo shooting because, lets face it, it was the only fun part of that game). The rivers and snakes and broken wagon wheels of computerland are simply too exhausted to assault yet another “Looooou? spinoff.
So Bobby, you can thank us later. A “Mr. Luuuuube? v. “Luuuuuuu? v. “Looooooou? chant-off/wrestling match at halftime of a Lions game, perchance?
...encore, encore, I am thoroughly entertained....
After you have thought about the Geroy nickname, be sure to include the Milt Stegall is Mr.Canadian Tire.
Milt Stegall with his Ill Start With You Canadian Tire slogan. You can see it at
[url=http://www.thegeroysloganisretarded.com]www.thegeroysloganisretarded.com[/url]note this isnt really a website or a milt nickname, just a retarded example to show how idiotic his geroy campaign is.
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