I was ordering a pair of new Nikes the other day through NikeID - Nike's website that allows you to customize your sneakers. In addition to picking colors of your shoes and laces, Nike also allows you to "ID" your shoes with your name (as long as it's eight letters or less).
While experimenting with various eight-letter words, I discovered that Nike won't let you put just
any word on a shoe...
Nike allows all good Americans put
McCain on a shoe...
But if you try to get
Obama on your shoe, Nike says "No You Can't!"
Nike is good with
God.
But they're not cool on
Christ.
Or
Jesus.
No Hitler on a sneaker for you!
But
Himmler gets the big
sig heil from Nike.
And Nike's not opposed to
Nazism in general.
Plus they consider
Stalin a comrade.
Sorry, NBA fans — ya can't put
Rape on a Nike shoe.
But
Murder doesn't get killed by the censors.
And good news for Congressmen - the crime of
Perjury isn't banned by Nike.
Nike doesn't try to prevent
this cry for help...
(I think this one would go really well with the
Murder shoe.)
Here's by far my favorite word banned by NikeID: