Poll time!
Oct. 15th, 2007 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsA few days ago I asked for the worst pairing names people knew. I was given some horrible examples, but of course there has to be a winner of most horrific smushed up name. Therefore, poll time!
This is a poll only about the actual pairing name, who that pairing contains doesn't come into it. I've included all the examples I was given, a truly horrific list taken from various fandoms. Plus some questions brought up in comments of the post.
[Poll #1071614]
Feel free to expand in comments, and if anyone wants to join the Bassez, JuC debate with a voice post, a virtual cookie for you.
This is a poll only about the actual pairing name, who that pairing contains doesn't come into it. I've included all the examples I was given, a truly horrific list taken from various fandoms. Plus some questions brought up in comments of the post.
[Poll #1071614]
Feel free to expand in comments, and if anyone wants to join the Bassez, JuC debate with a voice post, a virtual cookie for you.
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:44 pm (UTC)Smushed pairing names are an abomination!!! Kill them all!!!!
Uhm, I might feel a bit strongly about this :-)
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 01:57 pm (UTC)You know which one I hate in popslash? Trickykitten. It's not a smushed name, but I hate it anyway. Kitten. GAH!
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:04 pm (UTC)Trickykitten is silly! Not to mention relying far too much on fanon interpretations to be even understandable.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:07 pm (UTC)Also. YES! Not to mention relying far too much on fanon interpretations to be even understandable.
My dislike of the kitten thing is huge, and that name just plays into that. I have fists of fury when I see it!!!!
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Date: 2007-10-15 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 01:54 pm (UTC)Ahahahaha. Join the club. I always spell it Bassez, but see Basez too. So who knows.
You wouldn't be you if you didn't feel strongly about this stuff *mwah*
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:08 pm (UTC)You know, this is why I never really get why people say that I'm nice. I'm not nice! I'm bitchy and got a strong opinion about a lot of things! Of course, everything else I'm extremely laidback about so perhaps it evens out :-)
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:43 pm (UTC)You're not afraid to say what you mean. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Date: 2007-10-15 03:50 pm (UTC)I blame my mother - we were definitely not brought up to be nice girls :-)
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 01:52 pm (UTC)I've always loved the popslash pairing names, but others leave me cold. Which yes, makes no sense at all.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 02:10 pm (UTC)Hear, hear!
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:39 pm (UTC)Poor Spike, he really got a raw deal.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:08 pm (UTC)These pairing names are all quite awful. The worst I've hear in a fandom that I'm in is "Padackles" for Jared/Jensen. I'm so glad that it seems largely abandoned in favor of j² (even if that's not mathematically correct).
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:38 pm (UTC)I remember Padackles. That's so complicated and weird looking. In this case I totally prefer the J2.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 02:40 pm (UTC)And I pronounce it "bass-aye" - bass like the fish, aye like the letter "A".
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:47 pm (UTC)It seems Bassez has many different pronunciations. That's so cool.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:42 pm (UTC)Also. Dude. I had never heard Spiles before, and can I just say I wish I had gone my merry, innocent way, all unknowing the horror I was missing? Because ack. And I actually like the pairing (Spike/Giles, I assume?). But. But. It's just so very... icky.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:45 pm (UTC)Spiles is just wrong. It sounds like a medical complaint, and that's never good.
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:54 pm (UTC)And Spiles: Egggs-actly. And not a pretty medical complaint, either. *makes wrinkled-nose, scrinchy face, shudders*
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:56 pm (UTC)Yep, I have to admit it's not a word that I say often, even at fannish gatherings *g*
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Date: 2007-10-15 06:10 pm (UTC)(Please do not consider this comment an endorsemet of Bassez; JC should be back on the threemanbus where he belongs.)
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Date: 2007-10-15 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 06:55 pm (UTC)Sing it, sister! \o/
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Date: 2007-10-15 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 03:56 pm (UTC)juck, really? lol
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Date: 2007-10-15 04:02 pm (UTC)I know a few people pronounce it juck. But from what I see, they're in the minority.
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Date: 2007-10-15 05:36 pm (UTC)Right now it looks like it's an incredibly tiny minority of one :-)
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Date: 2007-10-15 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 04:33 pm (UTC)I also think TrickC and JuC are good ones. And one of my favorite pairing names is A-Rok, but that's not really squishing names together.
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Date: 2007-10-15 05:14 pm (UTC)God, some of those pairing names... heeeh!
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Date: 2007-10-15 05:22 pm (UTC)Unrelated. It's good to see you again :)
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Date: 2007-10-15 06:58 pm (UTC)I find all these names hilarious. I actually saw one on a list when I first came into pop fandom that listed a possibility for JoLa as Fatass! I adore that. *g*
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Date: 2007-10-16 11:40 am (UTC)Also, I pronounce Bassez so it rhymes with Chasez. Ba-zaay.
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:13 pm (UTC)