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Need a good silly name for a Fantunes-based system

Poll: Need a good silly name for a Fantunes-based system (17 member(s) have cast votes)

Which name(s) do you prefer?

  1. SONNET (3 votes [15.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.00%

  2. Rapture (1 votes [5.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.00%

  3. Rapture of the Deep (1 votes [5.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.00%

  4. Blunderbuss (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Nitrogen Narcosis (2 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  6. Imprecision - awm will probably never notice (2 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  7. SONNET - but only if I can justify the N better (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. The Randomiser (1 votes [5.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.00%

  9. Narcosis (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. Air Force 1 (2 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  11. LOCA (6 votes [30.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 30.00%

  12. FantOM (Fantunes On Medication) (2 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

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#1 User is offline   Jinksy 

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Posted 2014-November-04, 04:48

Some friends of mine 'invented' a Precision-based system that, after substantial tinkering with, they decided they'd earned the right to nickname Mjollnir (Thor's mighty club*, geddit?).

* Usually represented as a hammer but, my learned friends allege, ambiguous in the original language

Given that I've done at least as much tinkering with Fantunes, and I don't much like the de facto name anyway (hard to pronounce and neither familiar nor evocative enough to really have any use in describing to the opps), I want to give it a similar name, somehow - though perhaps loosely - themed over the system's characteristics.

The salient two characteristics as I see them:

Strong low bids
Highly aggressive, imprecise two-bids
Weak NT with wider than normal shape

I've got a few candidates based on these:

Imprecision (my original favourite, unfortunately taken by awm, I believe)
Blunderbuss (feels like a good description, though sorta blunt)
Rapture of the Deep (or maybe just the more elegant, less expressive Rapture. The lower you find yourself, the happier you are, geddit?)
Nitrogen Narcosis (ibid above, but with more gravitas and even more obscure)
Strong Ones, Nominal** NT, Expansive Twos (SONNET)

** Yeah, this isn't great - I just thought of this one, but I can find a better word later. If I get to introduce my variable NT to the system, it can become 'Nomadic'. (ETA: WellSpyder suggested 'nebulous', which I think is an improvement)

I haven't included any 'other' option, but if anyone has further suggestions, I'll add them to the poll.
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Posted 2014-November-04, 04:53

"Notrump on air (,) force 1"

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Posted 2014-November-04, 04:57

Don't geddit :huh: Is it a contraction for something?
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:01

View PostJinksy, on 2014-November-04, 04:57, said:

Don't geddit :huh: Is it a contraction for something?

I think you would have to drop the "notrump on" bit and just call it "Air Force 1"
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:06

I voted Imprecision and suggest The Randomizer, because that's what it could very well do with your scores. :)
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:18

Buchaechum - Fan Dance :D

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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:22

I think some of the names are too long. Imprecission is already taken and Rapture is too similar to Raptor.

That leaves SONNET and BlunderBuss. I like BlunderBuss better. Is more distinct. And you say that it's a good description :)

Nitrogen Narcosis is too long but otherwise good. What about just calling it Narcosis?
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:32

E2AA

"Every two an adventure" (two-bid, that is)
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:32

Knuckalavy, or if you like Germanic names Ibidum.
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Posted 2014-November-04, 05:38

As a play on your screen name, duck and weave? Or ZigZag!
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Posted 2014-November-04, 06:03

Added most of the ones I understand. The others:

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Buchaechum


What's the link?

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E2AA


Gerben already took something almost identical (Every Second Hand an Adventure) for his version, so I don't want to copy him (and it makes the system sound like you should be playing EHAA :P)

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Knuckalavy


What's the link + meaning?

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Ibidum


Ditto.

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duck and weave? Or ZigZag


People I play with offline won't know my screen name, so I wouldn't want to take one of these unless they had a link to the system. Do they?
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Posted 2014-November-04, 06:41

How about SONNET with "nebulous NT" for the central portion?

EDIT: Maybe you need a better "E", too - "expansive" could easily be read as "expensive" at a glance....
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Posted 2014-November-04, 07:36

Yeah, I like that.

I think 'expansive' describes the 2-bids pretty well though, homophones notwithstanding. Let me know if you think of any specific alternatives.
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Posted 2014-November-04, 08:10

View PostJinksy, on 2014-November-04, 07:36, said:

I think 'expansive' describes the 2-bids pretty well though, homophones notwithstanding. Let me know if you think of any specific alternatives.

"Encouraging"? (You're encouraged to respond knowing they are intermediate strength rather than weak.)
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Posted 2014-November-04, 11:00

Why not call it "Loca", a word that has various meanings in Spanish, including "crazy"

"Loca" is Acol (the English system) spelt backwards, in the same way "Namyats" is Stayman spelt backwards.

Weak no-trump and Lots of Opening bids Causing Aggravation - LOCA.
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Posted 2014-November-04, 11:25

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Posted 2014-November-04, 11:36

I saw 'nige1' as the most recent respondent, and immediately envisaged a post like 'SONNET = 9, Air Force 1 = 7, Blunderbuss = 6' or similar :P
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Posted 2014-November-04, 11:57

View PostHiram K, on 2014-November-04, 11:00, said:

Why not call it "Loca", a word that has various meanings in Spanish, including "crazy"

"Loca" is Acol (the English system) spelt backwards, in the same way "Namyats" is Stayman spelt backwards.

Weak no-trump and Lots of Opening bids Causing Aggravation - LOCA.


Nice :) I don't think it quite displaces SONNET as my current favourite, but vies with Imprecision for my second pick...
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Posted 2014-November-04, 12:04

View PostHiram K, on 2014-November-04, 11:00, said:

Why not call it "Loca", a word that has various meanings in Spanish, including "crazy"


You could play on this and keep the Norse theme by calling it Loki. :P

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Posted 2014-November-05, 11:07

another choice like loca - "cola" (if permitted)
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