This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: A Brief History Of Band Names: From YKTTW
Code Man 38: I'm curious for how many people the N-umlaut in "Spin̈al Tap" shows up correctly. (This is done using "n" followed by a Unicode combining umlaut, but I've found this doesn't show up properly across all OSes and browsers.)
Duckluck: Looks fine in Vista/Firefox.
Shale: Vista/IE7, checking in.
Micah: Looks good in OS X with Camino.
Prfnoff: The mark appears next to the "n" in FirefOS X.
Tree: Fine on Ubuntu / Firefox.
Kizor: XP2/Opera, present but somewhat erratically.
bluepenguin XP / Firefox, works for me.
Prfnoff: Undid a Bowdlerising Edit. The troper named "Keltena" apparently has a filter that blocks, besides many of the obvious profanities included in the "Grossout/Blasphemy Names" section, the words "ripoff," "hardcore," "violence," "Manson" (what?), "Pussycats" (in the manner of Scunthorpe
), "dead," and "death." Turning "Dead Horse Trope" into "Horse Trope" is a wonderfully bad example of Never Say "Die" in action!
Keltena: I have a filter that does what now? o.o;;
Schrodingers Duck: Should bands that play fast and loose with case and spacing count as punctuation bands too? iLiKETRAiNS and alexisonfire are both examples of both types of these.
Sabre Justice: Where does GWAR fit in? Also, we need a place to put our own good ideas for band names. Mine: Men Of Doom.
BattleHamster: Now that there's a page devoted to Heavy Metal Umlauts, should that part of this page be deleted?
Radhreni: Shouldn't there be a section for bands named after locations? Or are there not that many of them after all?
DaVince:
- This troper's favorite is We've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it.
