Poll by Paw: Rename TTA

[notyoueither]

OK. We have several useful suggestions for a name, some of which are quite good. So here's how it goes, people pick the name they want to adopt and post that choice below. That way we can tell who is voting for what, which may be important.

If none of the choices get 50% of the votes, then there will be a run off of the top two choices.

The choices are:
A. Gathering Storm
B. Golden Horde
C. Liberal Schola Assembly
D. Slaughterhouse 13
E. Thunder of Hooves

So, have at it. I will not vote for a while. I would like to observe what others think first.

Duration, 5 days. At which time I will ask for this thread to be locked.

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Vote progess

Gathering Storm: FrustratedPoet, Randolph, Meshelic, Velociryx, Nuclear Master, Sir Ralph, notyoueither

Slaughterhouse 13: asleepathewheel, alva848, Conqueror

Done. Gathering Storm it is.

[Meshelic]

Do we only vote for one?

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Meshelic
Do we only vote for one?

well, we can only have one name

[Meshelic]

DOH!

[notyoueither]

The Golden Horde of the Gathering Storm who Thunder on Hooves...

/Edit. This is not my vote btw.

[FrustratedPoet]

A

[asleepathewheel]

I will be brave and vote first. Please don't hurt me if this is a lame choice:

D. Slaughterhouse 13


I like this because of the reference and the connotation of slaughter. Also (ok, this is dumb) the 13, that we are individuals, but a team of 13. Yes I know that sounds corny, and yes I feel ashamed that I typed that.


Why not golden horde?
-only good if mongols
-too open for certain jokes

why not liberal schola?
-already a team with a latin name
-not unifying enough for me

why not gathering storm?
-I don't know

----though it does invite bad puns like "THE GATHERING STORM WILL RAIN ON YOUR PARADE, TRIP" and other crap like that.

why not thundering hooves?
-would suck if we don't have horses
-don't feel it would be appropriate unless we have horse based UU

But those are just my thoughts

I hope that the others vote early and often.

*slaughterhouse 13 was not my idea

damnit, just noticed that FP has registered the first vote

oh, is it ok that I have lobbied here?

[FrustratedPoet]

Well, I voted for Gathering Storm and that was the suggestion I made in the other thread. I wasn't hesitant to vote for my own suggestion because, well .... if I didn't prefer it to the other options I wouldn't have suggested it in the first place.

Anyway, I think all the ideas are good.

[Arnelos]

Gathering Storm:

I can see the NewZupdate now... (from Trip's team, no doubt):

"The Gathering Storm has was 'gathering' for several millennia, but it never did strike..."



Seriously now, just about ANY name can be at the butt-end of a joke. Just pick the name you guys find most cool and go with it

[FrustratedPoet]

PS. I promise not to make any of the bad Storm jokes if it wins. (well.... not too many )

PPS. Get out of our thread!

[asleepathewheel]

This should serve as a warning to the other voters:

Vote gathering storm only if you are prepared to hear the "clever" puns of the enemy.

Granted, their voices will be muted by our boots on their throats, but nonetheless, I don't want a name that is so easily ridiculed. So easily lampooned by even the least cultured and imaginative of our opponents.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
PS. I promise not to make any of the bad Storm jokes if it wins. (well.... not too many )

PPS. Get out of our thread!

Pfft! Everyone's in everyone else's threads right now! Until we get private forums, that will remain the case. For now, it's even productive to some extent.

[notyoueither]

Grrr. I knew I should have proposed 'Hammer of the Storm' as an alternative.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Vote gathering storm only if you are prepared to hear the "clever" puns of the enemy.

Aside from pointing out my poor punning ability , you seem to have presumed that I intend to be your "enemy" - nothing could be further from the truth!

I was merely pointing out that TRIP'S TEAM was likely to have a certain incentive to make fun of a team which was explicitly created to "trash" it

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Arnelos


Aside from pointing out my poor punning ability, you seem to have presumed that I intend to be your "enemy" - nothing could be further from the truth!

right, right. we're all friends here. this is a happy game. you wouldn't mind giving us some horses, friend, would ya?

Originally posted by Arnelos
I was merely pointing out that TRIP'S TEAM was likely to have a certain incentive to make fun of a team which was explicitly created to "trash" it

I suppose...but that will only be an incentive for the first 1000 years, by which point they will be reduced to a mere vassal, we will keep them alive, with one city, merely to ridicule them, as we will do the same to you.

Lets try to keep on topic. How do we get rid of the riff-raff around here