Dance of the Title Fairy: ORCA's Greatest Hits

[Umbrage]

shaft.ed is never wrong.

[izakthegoomba]

Maybe... Isa for

Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?

Almost every time I see one of his posts in GD, he says something about Sweden.

[Nobody Special]

Maybe... Isa for

Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?

Almost every time I see one of his posts in GD, he says something about Sweden.

Only with the proper spelling (which I'm really too busy to look up).

[dramonic]

...That's the proper spelling?

[Nobody Special]

We can no longer be friends.


FINE.

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?

[izakthegoomba]

I think it's subtler without, but either works.

[Nobody Special]

I will not participate in the subtlety debate again.

[UberNinja]

dramonic is dead to me.

[Oman]

It's LOOOOOOOOOONG guys. LOOOOOONG.

Titles should be snappy. My title is too long, and even then part of the joke is that it's looooooong.

If I have to wonder if our character count can handle it, it's too long.

[Kublai Khan]

I've got a glass cabinet of Swedish stereotype-based puns I could break open if we need an emergency title IKEA for Isa.

[Isa]

Maybe... Isa for

Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?

Almost every time I see one of his posts in GD, he says something about Sweden.

That's probably because I almost never post in GD, if you don't count the GTKAS subforum. =p

I think that title would serve Johhog better. He even made a thread in 62 titled something like "ITT discuss why Sweden is great", but that was almost a year ago.

I'm honored to be nominated for a title, but I don't think it fits me.

...with all that said, I DID have Swedish House Mafia in Mini Theme signups before the crash...

[zoraster]

If you're going down that road, Junpei and his Russian thing are far more fertile grounds for exploration.

Putin's Little Helper

Back in the USSR

For the Motherland

[Kublai Khan]

Junpei ->

Ex-KGB

[UberNinja]

It's LOOOOOOOOOONG guys. LOOOOOONG.

Titles should be snappy. My title is too long, and even then part of the joke is that it's looooooong.

If I have to wonder if our character count can handle it, it's too long.

Swedish høliday this yër?

... ?

[Oman]

Okay, so I think it's a pretty poor basis for a title overall, but what's wrong with just:

Swedish høliday

? What does adding the extra words add to the joke or the description?

There's a rule in joke-writing that the funny thing should be the last words that you say. Every word you say before the turn adds to the funny, every word you say after it detracts.

In a title assume that you only have the punchline. You have to build a joke in 2 words. The backup is that you have a lot of context, it's an inside joke. It's subtle, but the break is definitely there.

[IceGuy]

Swedish høliday

2nd

Though it probably should be

Swedish hølidåy

.

[quadz08]

I don't associate Isa with Sweden, personally, but if most others do, then k.

[izakthegoomba]

I think if we're going to use the Monty Python reference at all, it should be the full quote. "Swedish Holiday" doesn't really make sense as a title - I wouldn't immediately notice the reference and see why it was funny, nor would I immediately associate it with Isa. With the full quote, however, even someone who wasn't familiar with the reference could probably get the gist of it.

Of course, I understand what you're saying about the length. If we have to find a shorter title, I just think it should be something different entirely.

[Kublai Khan]

Needs more møøse.

[Umbrage]

Just:

Møøse

[Nobody Special]

For Isa:

No realli!

[izakthegoomba]

None of them really capture the Sweden reference, IMO.

[Isa]

I thought that if I had made any impact on this site, it'd be as a part of the small but noticeable club of asexuals, not as a Swede.

I'm honestly a bit disappointed in myself if all of you above associate me with being a Swede before anything else.

I don't like any of the suggested titles except Møøse (and I don't understand "No realli!"), and I think that can be improved by adding Majestik in front of it. "

Majestik Møøse

" looks cool.

Buuuuut, if you're really set on giving me a title I'd rather have it being a reference to something else.

[Nobody Special]

I just couldn't think of anything referencing asexuality.

[Isa]

*COULD* do a pun using the word Wik from those credits, as my last name is Wik, and I think those on FB Scumchat know that, so it's not too far-fetched...

"Also Wik?"