A newsletter by any other name induces cringing...

February 14, 2008 7:51 AM

I am working on branding a newsletter that will offer love advice, statistics, and bites of information related to dating in general, online dating and relationships. What's a clever (but not cringeworthy) name for it?

Other options for the content include links to a featured dater, new books (previous examples include The Mystery Method and What Shamu Taught Me...), services (such as a professional profile rewriting service) and polls. So far, all I've got is "Love Bites". This brought out the response "uh, as in A HICKEY?" from one friend.

Bonus if the title/concept contains the word "happen". Thank you in advance for any wisdom you can impart!

posted by Unicorn on the cob to writing & language (19 comments total)

"Love Happens"
posted by kindall at 7:53 AM on February 14, 2008

LoveBites, or LoveBytes.
posted by DarlingBri at 8:04 AM on February 14, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Love Notes
posted by barrakuda at 8:05 AM on February 14, 2008

It Happens in the Heart.
posted by cashman at 8:08 AM on February 14, 2008

Making/Make Love Happen.
Little Bits of Love.
Learn2Love.
The Loving Times.
Happen2Love.
Love2Happen.

I'll stop before I make everyone sick! :)
posted by hatmandu at 8:22 AM on February 14, 2008

Getting Love Done.
posted by bcwinters at 8:36 AM on February 14, 2008

I like darlingbri's LoveBytes
posted by KAS at 9:04 AM on February 14, 2008

hoo boy, all these are pretty cringeworthy to me...

especially anything with numbers representing words.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 9:11 AM on February 14, 2008

Love by happenstance
posted by Mick at 9:14 AM on February 14, 2008

Love Letter (or Love Letters)
posted by LordSludge at 9:17 AM on February 14, 2008

Tidbits of Love
posted by chan.caro at 9:27 AM on February 14, 2008

Statistical Appeal
Love Means...(tagline would be the latest statistic, changing every newsletter)
Notes on the Other Kind of Chemistry
Dating Data Dump
It's a Data!
Dating Happens
Desperately Seeking 2.4 Children (joke!) Hell, they're all jokes

Ok, I'm out. That was hard. When will grades be posted?
posted by iamkimiam at 9:43 AM on February 14, 2008

"It happens to the best of us."
posted by adamrice at 9:50 AM on February 14, 2008

The Data on Dating (and relationships too)
posted by kitkatcathy at 9:57 AM on February 14, 2008

'Damn Lies.'
posted by waxbanks at 11:57 AM on February 14, 2008

Loverevolver

Because it is a near-palindrome, and can be broken down as 'Love revolver,' which evokes the cyclical and perennial nature of love relationships as well as the Russian Roulette quality I used to feel meeting someone new who interested me, or it can be 'Lover evolver,' which has overtones of the way love can raise a person to a higher plane and the way loving one person progresses almost by an evolutionary process, and overtones of something which can cause your ideal person to coalesce out of the mist.
posted by jamjam at 12:31 PM on February 14, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

hahaha, these are great, guys. I'm sending the ones I marked as best answer to be reviewed. I can't use "Make Love Happen" because that's the tagline for one of Match.com's advertising campaigns, but believe me, I thought about it!
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 12:49 PM on February 14, 2008

And for my mast head image I would use a version or versions of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, only with two people spread out on individual circles side by side, and the circles would have cogs on the outside, and the cogs of the two circles would mesh as if they were gears.

You could use whatever combinations of genders suited your target audiences, and I might go for a David Hockney -like modern version of Leonardo's original.
posted by jamjam at 1:01 PM on February 14, 2008

Heart wizard.
You know, like the chart wizard in excel? since you're doing date analysis and excel is for data analysis.
posted by proj08 at 5:23 PM on February 14, 2008