The CELL 2.0: Our top 15 new acronyms for Denver's just-renamed terrorism Disneyland

The CELL: The Center for Empowered Living and Learning, the super-creepy Denver terrorism museum, has a new name. Now it's The CELL: The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, which makes it no less super creepy...

By Joel Warner

October 19, 2010

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The CELL: The Center for Empowered Living and Learning, the super-creepy Denver terrorism museum, has a new name. Now it's The CELL: The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, which makes it no less super creepy.

We didn't think the new moniker had the right ring, though, so we came up with a bunch of other things "The CELL" could stand for.

Here's our fifteen favorites, in no particular order. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comment section below. Because if we can't come up with stupid names for stupid museums, the terrorist have already won.

Completely Enraging Left-wing Liberals

Contrived Engine of Like-minded Loons

Cops, Eagle Scouts Lording over Liberties

Choking Everyone's Liberty to Laugh

Creepy Enigmatic Looney Land

Calling Elway for Long-winded Lectures

Computer-Enhanced Logical Loopholes

Curating Explosives Like they're Leonardos

Cultivating Enemies for Lasting Loathing

Crusade? Everybody Let's Look into it

Creative Endeavor by Large defense contractor Lobbyists

Cretins Enjoy Losing Liberties

Cranial Enemas for Ludicrous Libertarians

Crazy Elderly Lurkers Live

Crappy Entertainment for Lame Losers

More from our Politics archive: "Your guide to recognizing terrorism: John Elway."

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Joel Warner is a former staff writer for Westword and International Business Times. He's also written for WIRED, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, Slate, Grantland and many other publications. He's co-author of the 2014 book The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, published by Simon & Schuster.

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