Two titles of sly self-reference in a row? Seriously? (501)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:26 pm

Thanks for clearing that up.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:31 pm

Of course! Don't I look like an idiot now?

Either way, I would have said, if you wanted to use a TLA, the clear choice would be FHO. But I can see why FOO and FZO are appealing as well. But I still basically think a number is one (implied) word.

I still cannot see what on Earth Ross was up to, though. As has been pointed out, with quoting of official material, even, if it's multiple words, use the first character of each word, but if it's one, use the whole thing. Even I knew that.

spinlock · Post by **spinlock** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:59 pm

erik wrote: 501 is written "five hundred one", as three words with no hyphens.

Unless you speak the Queen's English, in which case it's still five hundred and one*.

I shouldn't wonder that those of us who experienced the pleasures of counting before the horrors of decimalisation, most likely have a thoroughly delightful mode of expressing the higher order of digits; perhaps "nine-and-41-dozen" or "The smallest amount over one-half of ten-hundred". Why yes, indeed - numbers were so much simpler back then! *sigh*.

*(emphasis added)

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:06 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:I still cannot see what on Earth Ross was up to, though. As has been pointed out, with quoting of official material, even, if it's multiple words, use the first character of each word, but if it's one, use the whole thing. Even I knew that.

Me either, this is what I get for not checking my references completely. But this conversation ended up being even more interesting than I had expected. I hope my poor naming has caused the masters no trouble.

BTW - From "How to make the fightmaster love you"

jb wrote:That's your band name, all lower case, all one word, not including "the", followed by an underscore, and then an acronym made of the words in the title you're submitting for.

With no mention of the exception.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:47 am

spinlock wrote: Unless you speak the Queen's English, in which case it's still five hundred and one*.

Well, here we speak the President's English - so it's pretty much anything goes.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:04 pm

I liked this title, and wrote about a third of a song for it, but work is prohibitively copious right now, so I missed out again. Maybe I can record just a piano/organ part for someone else's song next week... a more modest goal, right?

Post by **Spud** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:27 pm

Are you guys gonna let me go with this?

http://www.songfight.org/artpage.php?key=552

just sayin'. one artist is making the rest of you look like pussies.

SPUD

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:47 am

Spud wrote:Are you guys gonna let me go with this?

http://www.songfight.org/artpage.php?key=552

just sayin'. one artist is making the rest of you look like pussies.

SPUD

Go with it.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:17 am

http://www.songfight.org/artpage.php?key=553

We're overachievers, Pauly-boy.

martinblasick · Post by **martinblasick** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:11 pm

Man! I wrote reviews on almost everybody and then accidentaly hit the refresh button. Drat!

weakestsuit Wins for best use of the title! The middle doesn't matter cause it starts so good.

Next round I'll write the reviews in Word so they don't get vaporized.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:14 pm

FWIW, reviews should go in the review thread, not the prefight thread.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:20 pm

martinblasick wrote:weakestsuit Wins for best use of the title! The middle doesn't matter cause it starts so good.

Dude, listen to the other songs before voting