The gist of this post is a request for a custom title "The black swan of trespass," the rest is just me babbling and pasting quotes.
The "Re: After-birth abortion" thread got me thinking about hoaxes and if you're an Oztralian hoax means Ern Malley.
QuoteErnest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley) in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax. The poet, and his entire body of work, were created in one day in 1944 by writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax on Max Harris, Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine he had founded and edited, as well as on contemporary trends in poetry.
Quote"Mr. Max Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent an Australian outcrop of a literary fashion which has become prominent in England and America," McAuley and Stewart wrote after the hoax was revealed. "The distinctive feature of the fashion, it seemed to us, was that it rendered its devotees insensible of absurdity and incapable of ordinary discrimination.
"Our feeling was that by processes of critical self-delusion and mutual admiration, the perpetrators of this humourless nonsense had managed to pass it off on would-be intellectuals and Bohemians, both here and abroad, as great poetry.
It is an interesting and funny story, some say poetry of merit was created even though the opposite was the aim.
QuoteThe basic case made by Ern's defenders was that his creation proved the validity of surrealist procedures: that in letting down their guard, opening themselves to free association and chance, McAuley and Stewart had reached inspiration by the side-door of parody; and though this can't be argued on behalf of all the poems, some of which are partly or wholly gibberish, it contains a ponderable truth... The energy of invention that McAuley and Stewart brought to their concoction of Ern Malley created an icon of literary value, and that is why he continues to haunt our culture.
The poem Durer: Innsbruck, 1495
QuoteI had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air,
Closed my inanimate lids to find it real,
As I knew it would be, the colourful spires
And painted roofs, the high snows glimpsed at the back,
All reversed in the quiet reflecting waters –
Not knowing then that Durer perceived it too.
Now I find that once more I have shrunk
To an interloper, robber of dead men's dream,
I had read in books that art is not easy
But no one warned that the mind repeats
In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still
The black swan of trespass on alien waters.
Sounds OK to me, and I wish to claim The black swan of trespass.
It seems an appropriate custom title thing. There is even a link to the creator of The Magic Pudding, a Sidney Nolan painting was used on the magazine the poem was first published in.
I did consider things like "Some days feels" or "Can touch toes even though" or "I forgot 'cause I'm"
Please, thank you and have a cobber.
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Quote from: The Magic Pudding on March 04, 2012, 03:52:09 AM
Please, thank you and have a cobber.
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I thought you'd written "cobbler" and got excited for a minute.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on March 04, 2012, 04:12:07 AM
I thought you'd written "cobbler" and got excited for a minute.
So did stupid Google image search.
Cobber is a word for friend or pal, hardly used these days.
You can't trust friends, not like chocolate and caramel.
You keep your friends close, your enemies closer...and if those cobbers are made of chocolate, those closer still. ;D
Done ;D
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
Quote from: Ali on March 04, 2012, 05:57:01 PM
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
I want one, but can't really decide what I'd want to add there.
What are the maxinum number of letters that could be used?
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 05, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Quote from: Ali on March 04, 2012, 05:57:01 PM
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
I want one, but can't really decide what I'd want to add there.
What are the maxinum number of letters that could be used?
30 characters maximum please as that sits on one line.
Quote from: Tank on March 05, 2012, 08:40:10 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 05, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Quote from: Ali on March 04, 2012, 05:57:01 PM
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
I want one, but can't really decide what I'd want to add there.
What are the maxinum number of letters that could be used?
30 characters maximum please as that sits on one line.
Could I have 'Death by Calculus', please?
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 06, 2012, 01:17:41 AM
Quote from: Tank on March 05, 2012, 08:40:10 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 05, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Quote from: Ali on March 04, 2012, 05:57:01 PM
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
I want one, but can't really decide what I'd want to add there.
What are the maxinum number of letters that could be used?
30 characters maximum please as that sits on one line.
Could I have 'Death by Calculus', please?
Done! ;D
Quote from: Tank on March 06, 2012, 11:04:25 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 06, 2012, 01:17:41 AM
Quote from: Tank on March 05, 2012, 08:40:10 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 05, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Quote from: Ali on March 04, 2012, 05:57:01 PM
Oooh, I feel like a trendsetter now. It seems custom titles are becoming all the rage...:D
I want one, but can't really decide what I'd want to add there.
What are the maxinum number of letters that could be used?
30 characters maximum please as that sits on one line.
Could I have 'Death by Calculus', please?
Done! ;D
Thanks Tank! ;D Looks awesome.
I'd ask for a custom title, but I can't think of anything witty that I'd like :(
On the other hand, cobber is the best word ever.
It made me think "gobble gobble, cobber cobber."
Nom.
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on March 07, 2012, 02:46:54 AM
I'd ask for a custom title, but I can't think of anything witty that I'd like :(
On the other hand, cobber is the best word ever.
It made me think "gobble gobble, cobber cobber."
Nom.
Mud is muddier, ice is icier &
Can't start the mower &
Buy D' Juliet fertiliser
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on March 07, 2012, 02:46:54 AM
I'd ask for a custom title, but I can't think of anything witty that I'd like :(
On the other hand, cobber is the best word ever.
It made me think "gobble gobble, cobber cobber."
Nom.
How about 'Too cool for school'
I like it! ;D
I want one... But only if tank comes up with it. :)
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 08, 2012, 02:59:18 AM
I want one... But only if tank comes up with it. :)
Hmmmm. I could have some fun with this ;)
Quote from: Tank on March 08, 2012, 08:04:02 AM
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 08, 2012, 02:59:18 AM
I want one... But only if tank comes up with it. :)
Hmmmm. I could have some fun with this ;)
I vote "Secretly Loves Mike" (who is this Mike, anyway?)
Quote from: Ali on March 08, 2012, 04:33:23 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 08, 2012, 08:04:02 AM
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 08, 2012, 02:59:18 AM
I want one... But only if tank comes up with it. :)
Hmmmm. I could have some fun with this ;)
I vote "Secretly Loves Mike" (who is this Mike, anyway?)
Mike is Hismikeness and they are brothers.
Quote from: Tank on March 08, 2012, 05:03:17 PM
Quote from: Ali on March 08, 2012, 04:33:23 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 08, 2012, 08:04:02 AM
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 08, 2012, 02:59:18 AM
I want one... But only if tank comes up with it. :)
Hmmmm. I could have some fun with this ;)
I vote "Secretly Loves Mike" (who is this Mike, anyway?)
Mike is Hismikeness and they are brothers.
"Mike's My Hero"
He is kinda defined by his Mike hatred so "Defined by Mike"
The ideas arent bad but I do believe that I specified that it must be thought up by tank. ;)
Can I have "not impressed by normal"? I'm trying to minimalize my personal statements.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on March 09, 2012, 04:50:06 AM
Can I have "not impressed by normal"? I'm trying to minimalize my personal statements.
Done ;D
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 06:00:05 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on March 09, 2012, 04:50:06 AM
Can I have "not impressed by normal"? I'm trying to minimalize my personal statements.
Done ;D
Thank you! And it goes so well with my current ranking.
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 09, 2012, 02:54:54 AM
The ideas arent bad but I do believe that I specified that it must be thought up by tank. ;)
Done ;)
You can change it if you like.
Hey Tank, could Powered By Coffee please be my new custom user title? Thank you!
Quote from: Amicale on March 09, 2012, 06:15:59 AM
Hey Tank, could Powered By Coffee please be my new custom user title? Thank you!
Done ;D
Yay! Thanks!
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Hooray for Tank!
Budhorse4 now has a tag line ;D
Tank, you could open an online HAF business here. ;D
Quote from: Budhorse4 on March 09, 2012, 07:05:05 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 06:45:52 PM
Quote from: Budhorse4 on March 09, 2012, 03:25:47 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 07:20:54 AM
Budhorse4 now has a tag line ;D
Thanks! ;D
You like?
Yes. I was just curious though, how did you get it?
Well it just sort of summed you up. You don't suffer fools gladly and don't follow the crowd, you come over as your own person.
You know what? I like it. I shall wear this badge with pride. ;D
Quote from: Budhorse4 on March 09, 2012, 07:59:37 PM
You know what? I like it. I shall wear this badge with pride. ;D
I haz gladz ;D
Tank, your powers of observation astound me.
A well done to you, sir.
Quote from: Ihateyoumike on March 09, 2012, 08:41:37 PM
Tank, your powers of observation astound me.
A well done to you, sir.
Thank you ;D
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
That works.
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 10:26:12 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
That works.
Done. But if your creativity comes back just add it here.
Did I get my name because I'm always procrastinating from my school work? ;D
I want in. Surprise me, Tank. :D
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on March 10, 2012, 12:04:45 AM
Did I get my name because I'm always procrastinating from my school work? ;D
No. You just sort of give off an impression that school work is a little beneath you ;)
Haha, love it! Thanks Tank.
Quote from: philosoraptor on March 10, 2012, 09:39:53 AM
Haha, love it! Thanks Tank.
I take it you get the reference?
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Done for OG ;D
Thanks, Tank, that's perfect. :D
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:59:14 AM
Thanks, Tank, that's perfect. :D
Glad you like it, I hoped it wasn't too morbid :D
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Well, you're good at it!
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 10, 2012, 05:37:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Well, you're good at it!
Awesome choices, Tank! What one would you have picked for me if I hadn't picked one?
(Yes, yes, your bonus check's in the mail, we know that raise has been long overdue...)
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 10, 2012, 05:37:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Well, you're good at it!
This isn't the flattery thread you know!
Quote from: Amicale on March 10, 2012, 05:40:16 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 10, 2012, 05:37:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Well, you're good at it!
Awesome choices, Tank! What one would you have picked for me if I hadn't picked one?
(Yes, yes, your bonus check's in the mail, we know that raise has been long overdue...)
A big heart, with endless hugs.
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 06:30:12 PM
Quote from: Amicale on March 10, 2012, 05:40:16 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 10, 2012, 05:37:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: OldGit on March 10, 2012, 09:48:20 AM
Could you do one for me, please, Tank?
I love the way I'm getting to do all the f***ing work here! :D
Well, you're good at it!
Awesome choices, Tank! What one would you have picked for me if I hadn't picked one?
(Yes, yes, your bonus check's in the mail, we know that raise has been long overdue...)
A big heart, with endless hugs.
Awww, thanks. *blush* ;D You've got a big heart yourself!
Except you have an added bonus I prettymuch don't, which is that you don't suffer BS willingly. :D I unfortunately always tend to put up with it too long because my dang heart's on my sleeve. :P
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
How about "Dropkicking the Dumb"? :D
Quote from: Ali on March 10, 2012, 07:24:52 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
How about "Dropkicking the Dumb"? :D
Good one, but maybe not for me. I like the one I got.
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 07:26:33 PM
Quote from: Ali on March 10, 2012, 07:24:52 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
How about "Dropkicking the Dumb"? :D
Much better!
Too bad about that 30 space limit: "drop kicking the dumb over the goalposts of reality" would suit a number of people on this forum.
Someone needs to get "less than three" or "ex dee". That's all I know.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on March 10, 2012, 07:34:37 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 10, 2012, 07:26:33 PM
Quote from: Ali on March 10, 2012, 07:24:52 PM
Quote from: Tank on March 09, 2012, 09:51:26 PM
Quote from: Guardian85 on March 09, 2012, 09:47:20 PM
hmmm...what could I get? My imagination fled in the face of this challenge.
Inquisitive Ninja
How about "Dropkicking the Dumb"? :D
Much better!
Too bad about that 30 space limit: "drop kicking the dumb over the goalposts of reality" would suit a number of people on this forum.
You can put that sort of thing in your sig. The custom title needs to be succinct and pithy.
Tank, I was wondering if you could change the "Death By Calculus" title to "Duco, Non Ducor", please? I've become quite enamored with it. ;D
8)
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 25, 2012, 06:26:48 AM
Tank, I was wondering if you could change the "Death By Calculus" title to "Duco, Non Ducor", please? I've become quite enamored with it. ;D
8)
Done ;D
Quote from: Tank on April 25, 2012, 06:34:38 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 25, 2012, 06:26:48 AM
Tank, I was wondering if you could change the "Death By Calculus" title to "Duco, Non Ducor", please? I've become quite enamored with it. ;D
8)
Done ;D
Many thanks! ;D
Bump for scissorlegs, Crow and anybody else that wants to get in on the act :)
Can we make Siz's "Fat Cat at Large"? ;D And Crow's should be "Morment's Talking Raven". ;D
Quote from: Ali on July 11, 2012, 06:08:45 PM
Can we make Siz's "Fat Cat at Large"? ;D And Crow's should be "Morment's Talking Raven". ;D
We definitely can, provided they don't come up with something they prefer.
Other suggestions are gratefully accepted.
My suggestions:
Siz: Sir Snip-Snippington
Crow: Ca-CAW!
Quote from: Tank on July 11, 2012, 06:14:32 PM
Quote from: Ali on July 11, 2012, 06:08:45 PM
Can we make Siz's "Fat Cat at Large"? ;D And Crow's should be "Morment's Talking Raven". ;D
We definitely can, provided they don't come up with something they prefer.667
Other suggestions are gratefully accepted.
Well, I kinda liked 'Siz-Hulud'
(If you don't know what that is see this: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Shai-Hulud (http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Shai-Hulud))
But if y'all think I deserve the moniker characterising a rich fascist... :D
Still open to offers though...
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on July 11, 2012, 06:33:42 PM
My suggestions:
Siz: Sir Snip-Snippington
Crow: Ca-CAW!
Sir Chop Snippington-scythe?
Quote from: Scissorlegs on July 11, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on July 11, 2012, 06:33:42 PM
My suggestions:
Siz: Sir Snip-Snippington
Crow: Ca-CAW!
Sir Chop Snippington-scythe?
Done :)
But you can change it by sending me a PM with a new title if you like.
Terry Pratchett has a book called Carpe Jugulum, it's about vampires and is a play on Carpe diem, seize the day.
Crow could have carpe oculus or orb.
Carpe Oculus is kind of awesome
Or, keeping with the Game of Thrones motif, he could be "Sword in the Darkness" (men of the Night's Watch are called "Crows" after all)
Quote from: Tank on July 11, 2012, 06:14:32 PM
Quote from: Ali on July 11, 2012, 06:08:45 PM
Can we make Siz's "Fat Cat at Large"? ;D And Crow's should be "Morment's Talking Raven". ;D
We definitely can, provided they don't come up with something they prefer.
Other suggestions are gratefully accepted.
The smoking line is the only thing that keeps reminding me that I use to smoke these days.
I will let other people choose mine if they like. Get as creative as they want with a majority vote and that's what it will be.
Quote from: Crow on July 12, 2012, 01:01:50 AM
Quote from: Tank on July 11, 2012, 06:14:32 PM
Quote from: Ali on July 11, 2012, 06:08:45 PM
Can we make Siz's "Fat Cat at Large"? ;D And Crow's should be "Morment's Talking Raven". ;D
We definitely can, provided they don't come up with something they prefer.
Other suggestions are gratefully accepted.
The smoking line is the only thing that keeps reminding me that I use to smoke these days.
I will let other people choose mine if they like. Get as creative as they want with a majority vote and that's what it will be.
Non Smoker gets my vote :)
Quote from: Tank on July 12, 2012, 09:11:47 AM
Non Smoker gets my vote :)
Could it be said differently?
Maybe something involving carbon credits? Na, suppose not.