So far, the list of prospective titles* includes:
- The Magnificent Snaars
- Conceited Snaars
- Chippy Snaars
- ... I'll get back to you
- I'm thinking....
- Soar with Snaars
- Snore with Snaars
- ... I'll give it some more thought.
- Through the Third Wall with Snaars
- Omega Snaars Prime: More Than Meets the Eye
- Snaar Wars
- Snaars-issistic Sermons
- Snaarsissism
- Snaarsimus Prime
- Roll your Rs with Snaars
- Don't contract SARS; stay home and read Snaars
- Pungent Snaars
- Shtick with Snaars
- Minion Snaars
- Sentience Snaars
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Snaars
- Suave, Sophisticated Snaars
- The Inscrutable/Insightful/Insidious Snaars
- Semiotic Snaars
- Semiliterate Snaars
- Spastic Snaars
- Snaarsilicious
- Simply Snaars
- A Snaars by Any Other Name
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snaars
- Snaars the Subversive
- definitive Snaaring
- Snaars: He's Almost As Cool As Mayfly
- enSNAARed
- Citizen Snaars
While you all try to think up some REAL titles, feel free to view some recent pictures at my photoblog.
* Updated periodically as new suggestions come in.
16 comments:
How about, "Roll your Rs with Snaars"?
Or "Don't contract SARS; stay home and read Snaars"?
The truth is, I'm terrible at names. My blog was named "Simply Put" provisionally, but I never thought up a better alternative.
And trying to work "Snaars" into the title, in a sense befitting the awe, veneration and sheer wonderment engendered by that name? It's killing me!
Q
Hmmmm. If you're looking into a new title, Q, we should know more about you.
For instance, are you a member of a race of near-omnipotent, immortal and near-omniscient god-like beings from a parallel existence called the Q Continuum?
Or, are you that prolific interviewer from all those magazine articles; you know:
Q: Mr. Swarzenegger, you are a seasoned action film star, and let's face it, there are not many years left. When are you going to give up being the governator of Cali-fornia, and get serious about making yet another movie about psychotic killer robots from the year 2029?
Or, are you the missing source for the gospels of Matthew and Luke?
Or, are you a labialized velar plosive?
Or, are you the head of Q branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service?
When we have an answer to these vexing questions, and only then, will we try to help you come up with a new name for your blog.
Until then, Simply Put is a pretty good name for your blog.
Hey, "Insidious Snaars" gives me an idea that constitutes my first serious proposal!
"Snaars the Subversive".
Journeywoman and I have always liked to think of ourselves as subversive, even though on the surface we're perfectly upstanding citizens.
Subversive or shit-disturbers.
"Snaars the Shit-Disturber"? — nah, even though it's still alliterative.
Q
Given how difficult choosing a name that defines your blog has been, may I suggest another approach?
If we approach this from a Lewis Caroll point of view we could coin a new word.
How about the title - definitive Snaaring !
Remember ---
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Snaars, my son!
The verbs that bite, the clause that catch!
What about, Snaars: He's Almost As Cool As Mayfly?
shouldn't there be a truth functional pre-requisite for the title? i.e. suave and sophisticated should be thrown out ;)
insidious also...
conceited will work ;)
magnificent.... unf will not..
semiliterate of course will not... you didn't get a phil degree by not reading... hehe.. no matter how little you might have read of the course packs in dr. korcz's classes... oh good times... good times.. ;)
just trying to wrangle these statements into submission to truth.
oppss...sorry. i am quite bad in thinking titles and names. but i quite like one of them :
"Don't contract SARS; stay home and read Snaars"
Mary, I love the twinkle, twinkle one ... maybe I'll start a new bog, just about my kids, with that title.
Q, Snaars the Subversive is a very good one. Question authority! Read banned books! Fight the power! Oooh, I feel like such a rebel. (Shit-disturber is a little awkward and might put some people off. And it brings to mind a dung beetle - not the image I want.)
Bill, I love the Lewis Caroll approach. "Snaars" can be taken to a whole new level. People will walk down the street, point to each other, and say, "Hey, snaars! Looking snaarsy today," and "Did you see that guy's car, my snaars? It was totally snaarsed out! What the snaars! I wish I could snaars me some o' that!"
Mayfly, I am totally indignant at your blatant self-promotion. Where do you get off???
Arglor, if truth-functionality is a criteria, then the best name would be, simply, "snaars". However, the truly enlightened realize that snaarsiosity permeates all things; therefore no possible title is completely without truth, from some perspective. (I'm gonna get it for this one, hehe ...)
Patrick, Yeah, the SARS one is funny. I thought "semiotic snaars" (one of my own) is good, too, because it relates to diseases.
For those who didn't look it up, "semiotic" has two distinct meanings. One is: "of or relating to a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics." The second meaning has to do with symptomatology, or the study of disease symptoms. Since I am a philosophy enthusiast, I thought the title "semiotic snaars" would be ironically fitting.
Mary P., I've never been tagged before. This exercise looks like it will be fun. I will make that my next post.
I would have thought everyone would have given up after I entered the contest. I mean, come on, who can top Snaarsissism?
But I came up with a couple more anyway:
enSNAARed
and
Citizen Snaars
Ron (<--that's my name, not an entry)
> Mayfly, I am totally indignant at your
> blatant self-promotion. Where do you
> get off???
usually at the journal square station in jersey city, but that's beside the point. oh, come on, it was funny... right? right? anyway, i want to second ron's original nomination. i think blogging is inherently somewhat self-absorbed as a concept. self-publishing our daily ideas and thoughts to the internet as if they were important and people cared... even though people do care (our friends), we have to admit, blogs are pretty narcissistic. and so, i honestly think snaarsissism has truth-functionality, wit, and a charming amount of self-effacement, a bit of that enviable self-conscious gen-xy hoo ha, you know, it's just snaarsy, so honestly, i think you should snaars the contest and snaars up your page with the new and fabulous title: snaarsissism.
~me
I can see Mayflies point that "blogs are pretty narcissistic" that said I think that the narcissism is the product of the person not the medium.
If your Blog poses more questions than it gives answers, then is it necessarily narcissistic?
Here is a good non-narcissistic blog - http://simply-put.blogspot.com/
Mayfly,
Yep, your suggestion was funny. My response was meant to be funny too. I'm building up this egotistical 'snaars' persona, and thought my comeback was neatly hypocritical. I hope you didn't think I actually took offense.
I cannot disagree with your elegant and eloquent assessment. Snaarsissism it is.
Thank you everyone for your contributions!
Bill,
I didn't see your post until after I responded to Mayfly.
Yes, Q maintains an excellent blog. I highly recomment it.
However, a snaarsy blog like mine feeds my snaarsissistic tendencies.
That's just my tendency to rebel against absolutes. Blogs may contain narcissistic tendencies, but they do not have to.
I concur that given your snaarsissistic tendencies, Snaarsissism is an appropriate Title.
That said, Definitive Snaaring would also have narcissistic overtones? (sorry just had to add one last ditch effort for my proposal) :-)
Yes, Definitive Snaaring would also be narcissistic, but without the clever pun. I also really liked "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Snaars," but that would have been over the top, and a little too angry.
Also, I reserve the right to change the title again at my whim. We blogging gods are known to be unstable. Er, no ... fickle. Fickle is the word I wanted there.
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