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Fay - Jan 05, 2009 1:31:09 pm PST #5614 of 10453

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Oh, no, I understood the oh-so-amusing jest - I just wasn't sure whether it was something I'd just made up. Particularly since Pumpkin Pie is such a very unBritish foodstuff, and is generally regarded with incredulity bordering on horror by Brits who haven't actually tasted it - so I'd pretty much assumed it was made up by American fanbrats. Who wouldn't neccesarily go with HMS.

...but, no, apparently I didn't make it up. I'm still boggling over some of the other mad-as-fuck names that a quick Google has led me to. They include Guns and Handcuffs, Wotcher Wolvie and The Government Stole My Toad.

...there is, I grant, a certain charm to this. It's less inelegant than portmanteax. (Other than Clex. And Kock. I have high hopes that the Star Trek movie is going to bring 'Kock' or at least 'Spork' into actual usage.)

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Hil R. - Jan 05, 2009 1:50:26 pm PST #5615 of 10453

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The one portmanteaux name that I like is Foreteen, for Foreman/Thirteen on House.

(edited, because I can't remember what the current-season policy is in here.)

Dana - Jan 05, 2009 1:53:25 pm PST #5616 of 10453

I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I can't help but approve of the portmanteau for Pepper Potts and Tony Stark, which is Pepperony.

amych - Jan 05, 2009 1:55:35 pm PST #5617 of 10453

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Pepperony

Okay, that one made me snort beer.

P.M. Marc - Jan 05, 2009 1:55:44 pm PST #5618 of 10453

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I'm still fond of Spike/Fred. (Spred.)

I mean, that one cracked me up enough that I made it an archive.

erikaj - Jan 05, 2009 6:28:14 pm PST #5619 of 10453

"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

Ok, Fay...if that's true, you're funny. Fandom being what it is though, I never am sure what's serious. Pumpkin pie kind of puzzles me too, actually. Though I've tried a few times, trying to be a loyal American and etc. Still would rather have cheesecake and cherries or something.

Calli - Jan 06, 2009 4:13:04 am PST #5620 of 10453

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The Government Stole My Toad

I want to start a band and name it this. We'll do covers of Toad the Wet Sprocket songs remixed as Sousa marches.

Barb - Jan 06, 2009 4:19:00 am PST #5621 of 10453

“Not dead yet!”

We'll do covers of Toad the Wet Sprocket songs remixed as Sousa marches.

Not.

Enough.

Coffee...

Laga - Jan 06, 2009 11:33:29 am PST #5622 of 10453

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Are they all puns or some such? I'm still not getting "Pumpkin Pie". I don't get "Guns and Handcuffs" either unless it's because that's the only way that pairing would actually happen.

Fay - Jan 06, 2009 2:05:49 pm PST #5623 of 10453

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

There is nothing to get, afaik. There is no cunning wordplay. It's just a phrase that's supposed to be a codeword for a given pairing. I think that some of them derive from specific fics, from what the Wikipedia said, but no, I don't think there's a particular schemata in action.

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