Title Fairy: Killer App Edition (Swipe Right!)

[xyzzy]

just commenting to say that if a future Title Fairy thread is named Outback Steakhouse the opening post should just say "no rules, just right"

[Human Sequencer]

Nth for Dreal 'No place like Home Site'

I'll PM Chevre some examples when a game I'm in is over but it fits so perfectly.

[Aristophanes]

Nth for Dreal 'No place like Home Site'

I'll PM Chevre some examples when a game I'm in is over but it fits so perfectly.

I still support this. I also have mounting data to support this that I could dredge up if required.

[Pine]

Nth for Dreal 'No place like Home Site'

I'll PM Chevre some examples when a game I'm in is over but it fits so perfectly.

I still support this. I also have mounting data to support this that I could dredge up if required.

I also still support this.

[Gamma Emerald]

Nth for Dreal 'No place like Home Site'

I'll PM Chevre some examples when a game I'm in is over but it fits so perfectly.

I still support this. I also have mounting data to support this that I could dredge up if required.

I also still support this.

I also approve

[Annadog40]

Another approve

[Kublai Khan]

I abstain.

[Aristophanes]

I abstain.

I respect that

[Psyche]

better fix the capitalizations but otherwise it's good

[McMenno]

I am not actually a dog in real life

[Pine]

I am not actually a dog in real life

More canine lies.

[Cheery Dog]

I am not actually a dog in real life

aren't we all?

[Not_Mafia]

No, I'm a cow

[Firebringer]

i am a dragon dog too.

[Aristophanes]

I'm just a bust.

[Kublai Khan]

Is this a bust?

[Aristophanes]

Is this a bust?

I think you're getting a head of yourself.

[Kublai Khan]

Is this a bust?

I think you're getting a head of yourself.

Stone cold, Aristophanes.

[Gamma Emerald]

I'm a cold-blooded killer irl
okay I

might

consider changing my avatar, that's horrible to joke about

[Elbirn]

troublesome that the thing that 'makes the title good' is the thing with nothing to do with kts

The rap pun for the guy who raps isn't fitting. Got it.

[Psyche]

doesn't seem like you do...

[Psyche]

Like, the value in a pun title is in the way it efficiently conveys multiple meanings. What makes or breaks a pun title is the aptness of the meanings it ties together and how naturally it does that. Expert Marxman, Shipwright, Nekonfidante — they aren't decent titles just because they're puns, but because they efficiently riff on different aspects of the user. "That's a Rap" conveys multiple meanings, too, but one is just openly extraneous. A later reader will wonder why it was conveyed in the first place. You can ignore the way the phrase suggests more than just that KTS raps, but a typical reader won't.

This site here has a list of idioms involving the word "wrap"; maybe another one actually captures something about KTS, allowing the pun to have the broad referentiality that motivates doing pun titles in the first place. For example, if KTS has a secretive streak you can use "Under Raps". In that case, the pun would actually

do

something instead of being low-key confusing.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/wrap

[Psyche]

This actually gives me an idea for a pun-based title generator!

It could take a list of or a single "reference" to be made about a user (like, for example, "Rap"), seek out a list of synonyms for the word, and then for each synonym (as well as the original word itself), produce a list of homophones of said synonyms. From there, one can generate a list of idioms that use each homophone — this should be readily convertible into an exhaustive list of idiomatic puns on the original reference!

[Human Sequencer]

I thought the joke was that he wraps everything up with a rap after it happened.

[Annadog40]

Then everyone can have a puntle