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Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...:smile:

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.:rolleyes:

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296498]Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...:smile:

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]Sorry, but the opportunity was just too good to miss.

However, the title now does indeed reflect the contents of the thread, so I claim it is an improvement.

[QUOTE=xilman;296520]Sorry, but the opportunity was just too good to miss.

However, the title now does indeed reflect the contents of the thread, so I claim it is an improvement.[/QUOTE]
Ah, of course, it's all coming back to me now.

I have to agree with you.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296498]Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...:smile:

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

I can still make words out of almost everything but the first set of letters:

daerht the of tnetnoc the reflects title $#!+

daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;296567]daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?[/QUOTE]

you make it seem too simple to miss.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296498]Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...:smile:

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

+1

[QUOTE=Dubslow;296567]daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?[/QUOTE]
It was as the second line in your post gives it.

Now a confession:

I knew perfectly well that the title of this thread was especially vulnerable to being meddled with, given my implied criticism, so I tried to pre-empt any moderator attentions by making the title slightly thought-provoking already, intending to out-smart the mods so that they couldn't make it funnier. Almost immediately after I posted, the title was changed to what you write in the first line of your post. And I thought: hah! They're out of humorous ideas, can't think of anything clever to do with it. And I went to work. And only when I came home and read Paul's post did I realise that he had indeed out-smarted me and I just hadn't seen the point. Judging by how quickly the title was changed, that took him no effort at all.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296603]It was as the second line in your post gives it.

Now a confession:

I knew perfectly well that the title of this thread was especially vulnerable to being meddled with, given my implied criticism, so I tried to pre-empt any moderator attentions by making the title slightly thought-provoking already, intending to out-smart the mods so that they couldn't make it funnier. Almost immediately after I posted, the title was changed to what you write in the first line of your post. And I thought: hah! They're out of humorous ideas, can't think of anything clever to do with it. And I went to work. And only when I came home and read Paul's post did I realise that he had indeed out-smarted me and I just hadn't seen the point. Judging by how quickly the title was changed, that took him no effort at all.[/QUOTE]I've a great love of wordplay, especially that which employs self-reference (and particularly implicit self-reference), ambiguity, punning(*) and over-literal interpretation. As soon as I saw the word "reflects" I spotted the ambiguity and saw how to augment your explicit self-reference with an element of implicit self-reference merely by reflecting the title end-to-end.


Paul

(*) A good pun is its own reword.

Please change more thread titles! They are intellectually stimulating and a pile of fun!

[QUOTE=Dubslow;308940]Please change more thread titles! They are intellectually stimulating and a pile of fun![/QUOTE]

:davieddy:

Please stop.