| Stelios 18.04.2014 07:04 |
Am i the only one who frequently stugle to understand the acronyms Queenzoner's use? I know pretty well Queen's back catalogue but still is gets frustrating sometimes. So it's a closed circle thing for only suposedly HARDCORE Queen fans? Supposed to get immediately that PISCTP stands for Pain is close to pleasure, for example? I sugest using one representative word of the track, inside the acronym. Examples: SYWings instead of SYW IYCBeatT for "If You Can't Beat Them" It would make it so much easier for everyone. |
| thomasquinn 32989 18.04.2014 07:21 |
Are you seriously suggesting we all need to start using your completely arbitrary and pointless pseudo-acronyms because *you* occasionally need to think in order to figure out an acronym? Seriously? No. Live with it. |
| matt z 18.04.2014 07:42 |
Hah. Good luck! ;) I think the hierarchy is already established. It's something that may be particular to this strand of super fans, and as such I think it should remain. Something to confuse the newbies. Besides.. not everything gets abbreviated. Particularly the one word songs ex: Jesus dancer liar procession Nevermore misfire Drowse And so on. The other exceptions I can think of are BoRhap, it's late and probably cool cat.... I think much of the HS album doesn't get abbreviated. I may be wrong. Probably because people rarely mention it where shortening the title would be useful (favorite album/song lists/dream set lists etc) I think it's rather easy to figure out if you're a big fan of the band. The one that took me a minute was IABD, silly as it is. .. TATDOOL is my favorite sounding one. |
| The Nosuch Disco 18.04.2014 07:49 |
IABD gets me every time! I am Big Daddy? must be a demo or something! TATDOOL is a funny one. GOFLB is another good one :) |
| matt z 18.04.2014 07:50 |
BTW, "STL" (-)"=" MLB team FTR. HTH! |
| Rokku 18.04.2014 09:41 |
TMLWKY :) |
| brENsKi 18.04.2014 11:21 |
Stelios wrote: Am i the only one who frequently stugle to understand the acronyms Queenzoner's use? I know pretty well Queen's back catalogue but still is gets frustrating sometimes. So it's a closed circle thing for only suposedly HARDCORE Queen fans? Supposed to get immediately that PISCTP stands for Pain is close to pleasure, for example? I sugest using one representative word of the track, inside the acronym. Examples: SYWings instead of SYW IYCBeatT for "If You Can't Beat Them" It would make it so much easier for everyone."closed circle for hardcore queen fans? - are you serious? it's the first initial of each word of a song...if you have trouble with that, then i suggest you have deeper problems than you disclose anyhow, might i suggest that YSINMTALOI-Cbollock-BT (your suggestion is no more than a load of ill-conceived bollock-brained twatism) :-) |
| mooghead 18.04.2014 12:31 |
I agree actually, a lot of the time it looks like someone's cat has just walked across the keyboard. And BR can be one of 3 Queen songs.... |
| Stelios 18.04.2014 13:33 |
brENsKi wrote: "closed circle for hardcore queen fans? - are you serious? it's the first initial of each word of a song...if you have trouble with that, then i suggest you have deeper problems than you disclose anyhow, might i suggest that YSINMTALOI-Cbollock-BT (your suggestion is no more than a load of ill-conceived bollock-brained twatism) :-)Mind you, i feel Queenzone like home. No need to dig deep into my subconscious . Not beeing a native english speaker perhaps make it more difficult for me (or other not native english speakers) beeing so familiar with the acronyms. Kudos for your constructive sarcasm in the end of your response ;-) |
| Stelios 18.04.2014 13:41 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Are you seriously suggesting we all need to start using your completely arbitrary and pointless pseudo-acronyms because *you* occasionally need to think in order to figure out an acronym? Seriously? No. Live with it.No, we don't all need to. I am doing it in my posts for the convenience of the others, and if someone agrees, may jump on board. That's the suggestion. Oh, and its not pointless. Too late, perhaps. But pointless not. Peace |
| k-m 18.04.2014 15:35 |
The Nosuch Disco wrote: IABD gets me every time! I am Big Daddy? must be a demo or something! TATDOOL is a funny one. GOFLB is another good one :)IABD?? Help, please ;-) |
| TRS-Romania 18.04.2014 15:44 |
Or ...MoDaM |
| juan1921 18.04.2014 17:50 |
Perhaps not a discussion that should amount to "serious", but I think anyone should be able to write as they please. And then we can choose if we want to take the time to read it or not. By the way, if these acronyms were "correctly" presented, we might have to avoid some words like, for instance, prepositions, which are not normally included in actual acronyms. I can think of U.S.A. instead of U.S.O.A. |
| QueenFan76 18.04.2014 19:17 |
mooghead wrote: I agree actually, a lot of the time it looks like someone's cat has just walked across the keyboard. And BR can be one of 3 Queen songs....Jesus Christ, I can only think of Brighton Rock... help me out here... |
| The King Of Rhye 18.04.2014 19:44 |
not only is there IABD, there's also IABD(R)!!! ITTWWC is another one I like.....sounds the name of a company or something! |
| QueenFan76 18.04.2014 20:17 |
OK, got Bo Rhap but that's what I call it, not BR... |
| matt z 18.04.2014 20:30 |
QueenFan76 wrote: OK, got Bo Rhap but that's what I call it, not BR...I think he was referring to Body Ranguage (Chinese import) |
| matt z 18.04.2014 20:35 |
^*jk... Bohemian Rhapsody, Bicycle Race, Brighton Rock. Yes BoRhap is typically extended to distinguish it. Maybe Brighton Rock will get it's own in time. ... or has it had one already? B rock? "BriR"? Or shall it be br and Br2 in order of creation minus BoRhap? |
| QueenFan76 18.04.2014 20:43 |
LOL, Body Ranguage! How about: Spread your Wings and fry aray? |
| pestgrid 19.04.2014 03:39 |
how about this..........link |
| master marathon runner 19.04.2014 07:56 |
Original post spot on. balls to the self appointed ' hierachy" |
| tcc 19.04.2014 08:05 |
I always refer to this page when I cannot decipher the acronyms: link |
| matt z 19.04.2014 08:24 |
I... Was bowwn to Rub you. .... with errey Singur beat of my heart We're having a Miracurr on earth. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 19.04.2014 08:26 |
In the spirit of the thread, BBTRB. |
| Stelios 19.04.2014 08:47 |
Sheer Brass Neck wrote: In the spirit of the thread, BBTRB.Bring Back That Reroy Brown ...see, i am getting better on this... |
| Martin Packer 19.04.2014 09:57 |
Surely that's Reroy Blown? :-) |
| brENsKi 19.04.2014 13:46 |
such dodgy territory now....but hey Rove of My Rife My Meranchory Brues Gleat King Lat |
| Stelios 19.04.2014 18:00 |
And while this turned out in Chinese Torture, something in my defence. It all came too much when i was confronted witn CR in a thread. WTF? Only 20 minutes later to finally identify it was supposed to be The Cosmos Rocks. Rest my Cace. |
| The King Of Rhye 19.04.2014 21:05 |
Spread Your Rings! :p |
| Sheer Brass Neck 19.04.2014 22:44 |
And fry a ray :) And yes to Stelios, and double yes to Martin packer for excerrent guesses! |
| mooghead 20.04.2014 03:52 |
Wow... nothing like a bit of blatant racism to get the board stoked up! :/ |
| ITSM 23.04.2014 01:58 |
Stelios wrote: I sugest using one representative word of the track, inside the acronym. Examples: SYWings instead of SYW IYCBeatT for "If You Can't Beat Them" It would make it so much easier for everyone.I agree. This will save us much time. |
| mooghead 23.04.2014 13:02 |
Ha.. last post from 'ITSM'.. whatever that means?! ;-) |
| ITSM 24.04.2014 03:31 |
Haha ; ) English is not my native language, as you probably understood. |
| SweetCaroline 25.04.2014 09:40 |
What is DOOL? I thought it was DOTL! |
| thomasquinn 32989 25.04.2014 09:56 |
I've only seen that used (incorrectly, if you're going to be purist about it.. ) for "Days Of Our Lives", so an acronym for the shortened form of TATDOOL.- "These Are The Days Of Our Lives". Normally, one would use either a shortened title or an acronym, not both combined. |
| SweetCaroline 25.04.2014 11:41 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: I've only seen that used (incorrectly, if you're going to be purist about it.. ) for "Days Of Our Lives", so an acronym for the shortened form of TATDOOL.- "These Are The Days Of Our Lives". Normally, one would use either a shortened title or an acronym, not both combined.Thanks! I figured that out after I posted it. I thought it was a typo where I saw it being used. |