boasting

[lapsedmodernist]

I would also like to say that last night our trivia team, TorNader (christened by yours truly, although I was pushing for TorNader Fucks Florida AGAIN but that was vetoed as "too long" by the same saintpeg, ahem, I mean person, who holds the opinion that The Concerned Citizens isn't "cute enogh." Will it be cute when we are all living in the FADERLAND, saintpeg?), with a guest appearance by universaldonor, came in second place despite the fact that competing on premises was...some guy who...actually I am a bit unclear on this...what did he do? Did he memorize the encyclopedia? Did he write a book abot how to beat the encyclopedia? Or beat jeopardy? Or something? Someone help me out here. Anyway, he came in seventh, despite being flahsbulb-photographed by the New York Times team the whole way throgh. Sucker.

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

you rock. And TorNader is a pretty good name, even if horribly truncated.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

how is it horribly truncated?

and thank you.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

'cause it was gonna be "TorNader Fucks Florida AGAIN", of course. Of course, it could have been TorNader Fighters, but you didn't have enough high explosives.

oh, I wish I'd come up with this joke yesterday: under other political circumstances it could have been HurriMcCain hits Florida.

[saintpeg.livejournal.com]

It wasn't just that it was too long, exactly, it's more that it wasn't punny enough, and if it's not going to be immediately amusing, I think it's better to go with simplicity. If there was a fumbling presidential candidate whose name could somehow be combined with "hurricane", which would be a bit more timely and canny, or if the phrase was closer to an actual headline (which would pretty much rule out any expletives, unless we were going for an Onion headline, I suppose), then I would have felt a little more enthusiastic about your suggestion.

[saintpeg.livejournal.com]

Am I annoying yet?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

you never annoy me. so don't try to be all annoying so that I won't miss you when I leave b/c that won't work.

[saintpeg.livejournal.com]

Encyclopedia Brown:
http://mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a2927.asp

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oh god what a loser.

[ert.livejournal.com]

I was pushing for TorNader Fucks Florida AGAIN but that was vetoed as "too long" by the same saintpeg

Oh, no no no -- it just the right length. I'd even go so far as to add an exclamation point.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you for the solidarity.