That is weird.

I mean, I think language is fascinating and I love that you originated something here and that it propagated through the general (for very specific iterations of the term general) population. But I also think it's weird every time Gus comes up, which is more than I thought it would at this point.

That's the thing, why would TV Tropes call their founder "Gus"?

It's a little extra weird for me because the TV tropes concept came out of a conversation I had with him. Not that my notion of an Encyclopedia of Lost Pop Cultural Tropes is the same thing but that TV Tropes started out of that conversation.

Also, I want credit for coining "asspull" in the OED, okay?

Because he was. All the Fast Eddie crap came after the fact, and only to superficially placate us. Gus was the person who had an account here and the person who founded TV Tropes out of the conversation here and the person who did interviews with the press years later calling himself Eddie. The fact that that person couldn't keep his story straight after his fake death is the source of all and any confusion.

Ooh.

Still unhappy about that whole thing, aren't I?

Still unhappy about that whole thing, aren't I?

It's funny to me how little it bothers me. In fact, this morning I was thinking about how Gus's persona changed over time. How it was a lot more carefully constructed in the beginning and then became less sophisticated/warm/charming and more didactic/cocksure/know-it-all towards the end. As if he lost the energy to maintain that facade.

I do feel a wee bit of a sting at the betrayal of trust, but his story was always so unlikely that I wasn't entirely surprised that it popped like a soap bubble.

And I like the TV Tropes website which has become a singular dissection of narrative strategems.

I don't know if you can claim credit for asspull, Hec.

I don't know if you can claim credit for asspull, Hec.

I can claim it. The claim just might not be accurate. I'll relinquish my claim when an earlier cite turns up. But since I'm not looking for it and I doubt anybody else cares, it could be a while.

I cannot believe I missed all the Fast Eddie crap. I don't know how I dodged that one.

Fair point. You can claim it. You can claim anything. But I'm pretty sure you're not the first person I saw use it.

bah! I schlepped through the heat to Barnes & Noble yesterday to get a copy of Deadline ... only to be told that its release date is TODAY. At least at that store. However, I may have convinced the guy who was helping me to try the book, so it's not a total loss.

But I'm pretty sure you're not the first person I saw use it.

Yeah but see how you can't be arsed to look it up? That's the beauty of this specious claiming business.