Many readers have expressed outrage over the correspondence that we received this week and subsequently ran in yesterday’s Tips and Rumours section:

The experts at our language blog Fully Sic have asked readers to help them decipher the Latin motto of this shadowy organisation in a bid to decipher the motives of council president Brad Stanctun. Confusingly, they also refer to an anagram, but quite frankly we’re disgusted at this suggestion.

In fact, after much deliberation and detailed legal counsel, we’ve decided we have no choice but to take the advice of the council seriously.

Given our offices fall under the jurisdiction of the Victorian government’s move to grant new discretionary powers to Victoria Police for a broad range of anti-social behaviours, and given our name could be deemed offensive, as both a euphemism for the profanity “Christ” and a swear, we will accordingly be changing all aforementioned advertising, signage, packaging and public utterances of our inappropriate publication title.

But not without the advice of our readers. Please vote on the following name change suggestions put forward by the Council by close of business today and we will adjust our masthead and domain name accordingly:

  • Goodness Me
  • Fancy That
  • Crumbs
  • Oh Boy
  • Well I Never

Please email your nomination to boss@crikey.com.au with the subject line “Cripes”.

Aside from the gratification of knowing you’ve assisted us in our efforts to comply with the law, one lucky reader will receive a set of First Dog Cooty Notes, after the aforementioned profanity has been removed from our existing stock and replaced with a more suitable domain name such as ohboy.com.au. In addition we are currently seeking advice on use of the word “cooty.”

Alternatively, if no suitable name can be settled on, management will begin to explore the option of placing the oft-used yet normally redundant extra letter “c” into our existing masthead, thereby reducing the costs of the mooted changeover.

Look out for the first edition of Crickey in your inboxes come Monday.

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CANBERRA CALLING

Listen to yesterday’s Canberra Calling: “The Faulkner in the road podcast“

Crikey Editor Sophie Black and Crikey‘s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane analysed John Faulkner’s Wran lecture and what it means for the Federal Labor party.