Need a good silly name for a Fantunes-based system

[Jinksy]

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.

[Trinidad]

"Notrump on air (,) force 1"

 

Rik

[Jinksy]

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

[WellSpyder]

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"

[dicklont]

I voted Imprecision and suggest The Randomizer, because that's what it could very well do with your scores. :)

[Cthulhu D]

Buchaechum - Fan Dance :D

 

[helene_t]

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?

[whereagles]

E2AA

 

"Every two an adventure" (two-bid, that is)

[the hog]

Knuckalavy, or if you like Germanic names Ibidum.

[Cthulhu D]

As a play on your screen name, duck and weave? Or ZigZag!

[Jinksy]

Added most of the ones I understand. The others:

 

Buchaechum

 

What's the link?

 

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)

 

Knuckalavy

 

What's the link + meaning?

 

Ibidum

 

Ditto.

 

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?

[WellSpyder]

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....

[Jinksy]

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.

[WellSpyder]

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.)

[Hiram K]

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.

[nige1]

• Hy Jinks
• Loony tunes
• Naff tunes

[Jinksy]

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

[Jinksy]

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...

[GreenMan]

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

 

"You must be truly desperate to come to BBF for help." :D

[boyo14]

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

[jogs]

If it works, take full credit. Call it Jinksy Club.

[GreenMan]

Are you a music lover? Call it Tunes Fan.

[slothy]

How about PHANTOM (FANTOM)

 

FANTOM = Fantunes On Medication :)

 

or

 

Fantunes with Our Modifications.

 

Alex

[Cthulhu D]

Added most of the ones I understand. The others:

 

 

 

What's the link?

 

There is two ways to read 'Fantunes' - one is the name of the two players, the other is 'fan tunes'

 

What are some altenatives? Well, Fan Dance... which is what that means in Korean.

[Zelandakh]

In keeping with the Norse theme you could also use Gungnir (never misses its target) or perhaps Gjallarhorn (heralding in the next stage of the (bridge) world). These items are Odin's spear and Heimdall's horn respectively.