I'm not opposed to giving Umbrage a title, I'm opposed to bad titles.
Routine day with a dirt cheap brush
Then a week goes by and it goes untouched
Then two, then three, then a month
Then the rest of your life, you beat yourself up
In post 431, TheButtonmen wrote:By the power invested in me by some farcical aquatic ceremony and these fancy dancy wings I hereby give Nicholas1024 the title of
Ides of Mash
!
I miss Oman's "No Puns" rules. Ides of Mash is horrible.
In post 431, TheButtonmen wrote:By the power invested in me by some farcical aquatic ceremony and these fancy dancy wings I hereby give Nicholas1024 the title of
Ides of Mash
!
I miss Oman's "No Puns" rules. Ides of Mash is horrible.
Cache Me If You Can
Premature Assassination
Comma Police
Yawesome
etc
It's not like pun titles are some new thing and they've produced some pretty great ones. (Pretty sure 1 or 2 of those were approved under Oman too, so...)
In post 431, TheButtonmen wrote:By the power invested in me by some farcical aquatic ceremony and these fancy dancy wings I hereby give Nicholas1024 the title of
Ides of Mash
!
I miss Oman's "No Puns" rules. Ides of Mash is horrible.
just read it in a Bostonian dialect
Chevre, you suggestion was terrible
Also if you want to use that thread for Umbrage
Quantal Content
would be better
but I don't think it is siginificant at this point
new rule to the title fairy thread: If your argument for/against a title is "but, but, but what about <existing title>" then don't bother. Precedence doesn't/shouldn't exist in a title thread. Titles must be good for their own sake.
new rule to the title fairy thread: If your argument for/against a title is "but, but, but what about <existing title>" then don't bother. Precedence doesn't/shouldn't exist in a title thread. Titles must be good for their own sake.
Would you apply the same idea to arguing against a title- "X title was shot down for Y reason and this one is the same".
I think I'm slightly off target with the idea and am hoping someone will apply it better.
In post 431, TheButtonmen wrote:By the power invested in me by some farcical aquatic ceremony and these fancy dancy wings I hereby give Nicholas1024 the title of
Ides of Mash
!
I miss Oman's "No Puns" rules. Ides of Mash is horrible.
But, but, but -- there's precedent for allowing it!
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On permanent
new rule to the title fairy thread: If your argument for/against a title is "but, but, but what about <existing title>" then don't bother. Precedence doesn't/shouldn't exist in a title thread. Titles must be good for their own sake.
I agree with this.
In post 467, zoraster wrote:I don't really care about the rule, but you will not effing take away puns. Nonnegotiable.
My terrible sense of humour agrees with this.
Routine day with a dirt cheap brush
Then a week goes by and it goes untouched
Then two, then three, then a month
Then the rest of your life, you beat yourself up
Wikipedia wrote:The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.[1][2] These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of
homophonic
, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language.
Which side do you really want to take? Shakespeare's pun-filled awesomeness or Samuel Johnson's dour dictionary writing? (Johnson is the one that said, "puns are the lowest form of humour.")