Yet Another Dance of the Title Fairy: Change Up

[animorpherv1]

Worth 1 Umbrage doesn't work because it's a brand new thread in F62 that hardly anyone has posted in or even heard of

Fair enough.

[xRECKONERx]

I suppose I'm not OPPOSED to giving Umbrage a title but it'd have to have the right amount of crow eating.

[TheButtonmen]

I'm not opposed to giving Umbrage a title, I'm opposed to bad titles.

[quadz08]

Were tim's thread to take off, Worth 1 Umbrage would be all right. It just hasn't. *shrug*

[Kublai Khan]

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.

[quadz08]

Puns make the best titles. If you think otherwise, I disagree with you WITH PASSION.

[xRECKONERx]

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.

Khan Man

[quadz08]

He's stated before that he doesn't really like his title, sooooo

[xRECKONERx]

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...)

[quadz08]

I agree with you. Cache Me If You Can was Oman, but I think that's the only one you've listed.

[shaft.ed]

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

[Kublai Khan]

Propose

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.

[Mr. Flay]

2nd

[gorckat]

Propose

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.

Edit: Derp- it said for/against.

[Rhinox]

Precedence doesn't/shouldn't exist in a title thread.

I miss Oman's "No Puns" rules.

[redFF]

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.

Khan Man

[saulres]

Precedence doesn't/shouldn't exist in a title thread.

But, but, but -- there's precedent for allowing it!

[zoraster]

I don't really care about the rule, but you will not effing take away puns. Nonnegotiable.

[Oversoul]

Well at least this one was older than the last.

[TheButtonmen]

Propose

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.

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.

[xRECKONERx]

If I'm not mistaken the title was supported by enough people and approved by the fairy so I'm not sure why KK is considering himself the

Vi of title quality

arbiter of title quality.

[shaft.ed]

i think after his title, you can see why he'd be opposed to bad puns
but this was a good pun

[Kublai Khan]

Technically, my title is a homonym, not a pun.

And we're all arbiters of title quality. The majority just happens to be wrong.

[zoraster]

puns are often made out of homonyms.

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.")

[Ythan]

Speeding through a title means fewer eyes to pick out flaws.