A note for my brother ✏️
You’re officially part of the story.
Dear brother,
I’ve been building a cricket-scoring app for about four months now, and the whole time it was called “Scores”. Which, let’s be honest, was basically “Untitled Project (final) (v2)” with extra steps. We’d been hunting for a better name for a while. Then you casually said “Bails & Tales”, like it was nothing, and suddenly it had a name it actually deserved.
Because every match is a story, and every story needs someone keeping score. You got that before I did.
Then, before I’d even finished being impressed, you grabbed a pen and drew a set of cricket bails that is also an open book. On a napkin. In about two minutes. Thank you for both. You’ve basically been promoted to Chief Naming Officer (unpaid, sorry).
And then he blew my mind…
Bails&Tales
Look closely. There’s something hiding in the name.
The Napkin™
The original artwork. Pen on restaurant napkin. Currently valued at “absolutely priceless”.
- The bails are pages of an open book. The tales!
- The stumps hold up the whole story.
- Me, staring at a napkin for ten minutes.
Official scorecard
Innings: “Naming My App”. Batting: my brother.
- Hidden acronymsBails & Tales → BAT. Unreal.
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- Logos drafted on a napkinBails that are also a book. Genius.
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- Minutes it took himRude, honestly.
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