TeeGee's Funny Name Renovation Run

[dakky21]

OOPS TOO MANY M'S - SWAP THE MOTH FOR HOT

you know, there's an edit button...

[dakky21]

BTW what's the deadline for this event?

[Dukasaur]

BTW what's the deadline for this event?

A few days.

Let's say March 3rd. Or maybe 4th, so that people who are busy during the week can do something on Saturday.

[dakky21]

BTW what's the deadline for this event?

A few days.

Let's say March 3rd. Or maybe 4th, so that people who are busy during the week can do something on Saturday.

You really think there will be more posts?

I may add some more anagrams but that's pretty much it, I doubt someone will add more...

[Dukasaur]

BTW what's the deadline for this event?

A few days.

Let's say March 3rd. Or maybe 4th, so that people who are busy during the week can do something on Saturday.

You really think there will be more posts?

I may add some more anagrams but that's pretty much it, I doubt someone will add more...

No harm will be done by waiting until Saturday. I know most of them are probably in already, but there might be someone who is having a tough week at work and is waiting for the weekend to indulge his online interests.

[jfm10]

4. 4.Schrödinger's Catbox

becomes

Ding... cross boxer chat.

3. The Forum That Shall Not Be Named

thousand member flat than hotel.

2.This Forum No Longer Exists

strong fist humor exile son.

1.You are entering an unsafe environment

nine tuna use a form an renting everyone

[Dukasaur]

Temporarily LOCKED for the first part of the judging process.

[Dukasaur]

Thread unlocked. FIrst and second parts of judging process are complete. Third part begins later today. More detailed post will follow soon.

[Dukasaur]

Winners thus far.

Here are the 16 entries that survived the first step (review by the Committee).

(Dak,Snbn) The Truth as bland halftone memo
(Dak,Tfnle) He informs next urologists
(Dak,Tfnle) Sixth rest room gone sinful
(Dak,Schrod) God's exorcist branch
(Dak,Snbn) The best, half-normal muttonhead
(JNB7,Tfnle) Sixteen shots of rum. No girl.
(JNB7,Yaeaue) I fear ten neon nuns gave me an ornery UTI
(KingDunk,Snbn) Homer Hunts Batman, Fell To Death
(KingDunk,Schrod) Dice Crash Strongbox
(Sym ,Tfnle) T-rex in sight, mofos- no rules!
(Sym ,Snbn) That mud's an earthen tomb of hell
(Sym,Yaeaue) Vent a neuron- an A.Einstein energy forum
(VKO ,Tfnle) It's more or less fox hunting.
(VKO ,Snbn) Oh! The half-mad unstable torment!
(VKO ,Yaeaue) Funny, ravenous, rotten, inane menagerie
(VKO ,Schrod) Oxbridge scorns chat.

The list of 16 was presented to the mods, who chose JNB7's "Sixteen shots of rum. No girl." (By now you probably know that most of the mods are whoremongering alcoholics, so this plays to their interests.)

JNB7 wins FIRST PRIZE: The winning anagram will become the new OT name! Its author will get 3500 credits and a General Achievement Medal.

Congratulatinos JNB7!

Second prize will be decided by the popular vote, which is yet to begin.

Third Prize: If you have a short-listed entry for each of the four names, win 500 credits and a General Achievement Medal. Vonkillenoffen is the only one who accomplished this feat. Dakky21 and Symmetry both came close, but missed in one of the four.

Congratulations Vonkillenoffen!

Fourth and Fifth prizes will be assessed after the 2nd prize is handed out.

Dakky21 wins the mystery prize for an Umlaut-preserving entry.

Congratulations Dakky21!


The popular vote begins now. Don't be shy about asking your friends to come and vote -- there are no rules against campaigning!

[Metsfanmax]

For the record, I voted for the T. Rex one, because it was the only one that didn't suck.

[dakky21]

I voted for myself and started a campaign since there are no rules against

[Symmetry]

For the record, I voted for the T. Rex one, because it was the only one that didn't suck.

I like to think it tells a story. It was my favourite, but I thought it wouldn't get through because of the "mofo" bit. Thanks to the people who enjoyed it.

[JNB7]

Yay! Thanks for not holding the choice of liquor against me!

[TX AG 90]

What am I missing? "The Truth..." one makes no sense to me at all and it is winning!

[dakky21]

What am I missing? "The Truth..." one makes no sense to me at all and it is winning!

Dukasaur said himself there are no rules against campaigning... so I'm doing my own campaign

[DoomYoshi]

What am I missing? "The Truth..." one makes no sense to me at all and it is winning!

It makes a lot of sense. It's a sentence fragment using a less common usage of as meaning (in the form of). The sentence is completed by prefixing with "this forum is..."

So the end result (explanation of the joke) is:

This forum is the truth in the form of a bland, halftone memo.

A halftone memo is the inverse of a 2-tone memo. The truth is sarcastic humor. It makes a lot of sense, and it's really funny, especially when you start imagining the inverse process of making a halftone memo. It exists in the boundary between mathematics and reality and is probably the greatest anagram of the 21st century.

Someone could conceivably argue that printing memos with grey is a halftonery. I vehemently disagree since a) grey can be made with black as part of a 1-tone process and b) even if you watered down the black before applying the ink, that watered down black would be it's own tone i.e. grey.

So we need to push on the boundaries of physics. I am attempting to use sinusoidal tones and then have paper that only shows the positive (or negative) form of those tones, thus creating half-tone memos. For now though, everyone can participate in this glorious work of science by continuing to post the truth. I am expecting the Nobel any day now.

Just remember: Keep Truthin'. FOR SCIENCE!

[dakky21]

DY Why do I find your comment sarcastic as well...

[Dukasaur]

What am I missing? "The Truth..." one makes no sense to me at all and it is winning!

It makes a lot of sense. It's a sentence fragment using a less common usage of as meaning (in the form of). The sentence is completed by prefixing with "this forum is..."

So the end result (explanation of the joke) is:

This forum is the truth in the form of a bland, halftone memo.

A halftone memo is the inverse of a 2-tone memo. The truth is sarcastic humor. It makes a lot of sense, and it's really funny, especially when you start imagining the inverse process of making a halftone memo. It exists in the boundary between mathematics and reality and is probably the greatest anagram of the 21st century.

Someone could conceivably argue that printing memos with grey is a halftonery. I vehemently disagree since a) grey can be made with black as part of a 1-tone process and b) even if you watered down the black before applying the ink, that watered down black would be it's own tone i.e. grey.

So we need to push on the boundaries of physics. I am attempting to use sinusoidal tones and then have paper that only shows the positive (or negative) form of those tones, thus creating half-tone memos. For now though, everyone can participate in this glorious work of science by continuing to post the truth. I am expecting the Nobel any day now.

Just remember: Keep Truthin'. FOR SCIENCE!

Actually, you're probably too young to remember, but halftone or semitone was the standard way of rendering colour photographs in black-and-white books until the colour printing started becoming cheap sometime in the early 90s.

So, you post is correct, but actually more correct than your realize.

So, this is the ultimate form of poetry. Basically it's saying that all the vivid colour and emotion which real life contains can be, through the pedantic process of debate on this forum, reduced to a crushing form of dullness and monotony.

[dakky21]

Don't forget this is a popularity event/contest, not for the best one... so who has a lot of friends will win, so invite all you can to vote for you...

[Symmetry]

Don't forget this is a popularity event/contest, not for the best one... so who has a lot of friends will win, so invite all you can to vote for you...

You did kinda cheat. I'm ok with supporting you as your cheating was within the rules, but gloating about how you beat people who played fair seems a bit OTT.

[dakky21]

Don't forget this is a popularity event/contest, not for the best one... so who has a lot of friends will win, so invite all you can to vote for you...

You did kinda cheat. I'm ok with supporting you as your cheating was within the rules, but gloating about how you beat people who played fair seems a bit OTT.

So it's cheating when someone tells you who to vote for? I don't see that as cheating, it's just lobbying and it happens in the world all the time.

[CatchersMitt14]

When does voting for the second prize end?

[Dukasaur]

When does voting for the second prize end?

Poll runs till Mar 30th, '17, 23:49

[Symmetry]

Don't forget this is a popularity event/contest, not for the best one... so who has a lot of friends will win, so invite all you can to vote for you...

You did kinda cheat. I'm ok with supporting you as your cheating was within the rules, but gloating about how you beat people who played fair seems a bit OTT.

So it's cheating when someone tells you who to vote for? I don't see that as cheating, it's just lobbying and it happens in the world all the time.

Meh, I'm just being a sore loser, but it does seem like you missed the spirit of the thing by using computer programmes to generate your answers,

[dakky21]

Don't forget this is a popularity event/contest, not for the best one... so who has a lot of friends will win, so invite all you can to vote for you...

You did kinda cheat. I'm ok with supporting you as your cheating was within the rules, but gloating about how you beat people who played fair seems a bit OTT.

So it's cheating when someone tells you who to vote for? I don't see that as cheating, it's just lobbying and it happens in the world all the time.

Meh, I'm just being a sore loser, but it does seem like you missed the spirit of the thing by using computer programmes to generate your answers,

Read the first post again... Dukasaur included that as well:

Don't spam. Nowadays there are online anagram generators that will give you thousands of (mostly gibberish) anagrams. It's not our job to sift through your list of 8000 word strings and find a gem. It's your job to find the gem, and submit only that.

So cheating it is not.