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Edited by GastonRabbit on May 29th 2023 at 9:30:10 AM
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
Thumped for posting in the wrong thread. Will now go to right thread.
edited 22nd Jul '14 4:34:08 PM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
From the entry for Big Star, a cult classic Power Pop band:
Shout-Out: And in reverse, Katy Perry's manager is a huge fan of the band and asked her to name her song "California Gurls" as a tribute after Alex died. We promise this is the last time we'll say "Big Star" and "Katy Perry" in the same sentence.
Those laconics are beautiful.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
But...they didn't...
So how would one go about making a laconic entry?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Ace Gamer
The same way you would make any other subpage, really. Replace the namespace (Main/, Series/, Film/, etc...) for whatever page you want to make a Laconic for with Laconic/ and edit that page with what you want to appear on the page.
Also, here's a friendly reminder (courtesy of Similarly Named Works) that you should really pay attention to where you're putting your sub-bullets:
- Green is a 1988 album by R.E.M., and R.E.M. is a 1990 EP by Green. The band Green, who had existed nearly as long as R.E.M. had, deliberately named the single that way in response to the R.E.M. album title.
- The 1979 film is known in places (in the UK for example) as The First Great Train Robbery; the aversion is less related to the 1903 film's title and more to avoid confusion/misled patrons after the more recent real life Great Train Robbery of 1963 in Buckinghamshire, England, since the movie and book are based on the 1855 event.
- The 1979 film is known in places (in the UK for example) as The First Great Train Robbery; the aversion is less related to the 1903 film's title and more to avoid confusion/misled patrons after the more recent real life Great Train Robbery of 1963
I meant what would I put?
Because I made a laconic entry for Pure Energy and I'm wondering if I did it right.
edited 22nd Jul '14 8:19:33 PM by BaconManiac5000
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Zzzzzzzzzz
Mmmmm. Not really.
The Laconic is an accurate, concise, succinct statement of the trope. If you can make it witty, too that's even better. Yours is long, and while it's funny in a way, it's also not at all an accurate definition of the trope. The trope is "You can make stuff out of pure energy, as though it was material." There's nothing in it about nationalism or knockoffs or "purity" in the sense of "unadulterated".
Think of Laconics this way: State what the trope is, as briefly as you can, while still being accurate.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Okay, I'll get rid of it.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
(she/her)
Um, Bacon, please don't delete pages like that. Page-blanking is against the rules and is considered vandalism. It would been better to leave alone until you or someone else came up with something better. For future reference, here is the Laconic Description Improvement thread, where you can ask for advice for creating potential laconic pages or suggestions to improve existing ones.
Anyway, since Pure Energy needs an actual laconic now... How's this?
edited 22nd Jul '14 9:38:08 PM by MacronNotes
Macron's notes
Uh, well that sounds good.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
"Just as planned."
Bacon, just as an example for a laconic entry. Let's take Superman's entry.
"Alien superhero with incredible power and lofty morals."
That sums up Superman in one sentence with no added fluff and gives the general idea of his character. It doesn't need to be much more than that simply because you don't need to know more to get who Superman is, and you can at least go into other articles mentioning him with that in mind.
Keep it to one sentence, and preferably less than ten words.
Also, that Laconic entry's 'Return to Unabridged version' line. <3
edited 23rd Jul '14 12:08:49 AM by RatherRandomRachel
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Well, if I'm the one that's going to end up making this, I'll think of something tomorrow.
Because I cannot think after 10 PM.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Zzzzzzzzzz
Bacon, come on over to the Laconic Improvement drive thread (It's here) and we'll help you get a handle on what makes a good Laconic. There are bunch that need to be fixed or written, and new blood is always welcomed.
In the last folder of the nightmare fuel page for Pokémon,
edited 23rd Jul '14 8:17:59 AM by AnimeBadger
I don't read character pages much so I have no idea if this is common practice or not. On the Fringe character page, they have a fully fleshed out section dedicated to Gene the cow.
Portrayed by Cow
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 1: "Pilot"
Episode Appearances: 71 of 100
edited 23rd Jul '14 12:51:50 PM by Psychobabble6
And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don't know.
"Just as planned."
Just, goldfish poop gang.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
(she/her)
I found this on Funny.Tv Tropes Examples for Better than a Bare Bulb. I highly doubt it's still on that page because it's natter but...
- Every "Movie" movie by Seltzer And Friedberg (such as Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans, and Disaster Movie) is all about hanging lampshades when it's not shoehorning pop culture references. But then they explain what the lampshade is hanging over. Hence, it ends up more horrible than Troperiffic.
- Often the lampshades aren't over anything at all, they just ARE.
- Which is funny because, you see, most lampshades hang over things, and a lampshade without something to hang over is absurd! Ha! Ha!
- Is this a case of "Don't Explain the Lack of Joke"?
- If it is, you just lampshaded the crap out of it.
- HAHAHAHA... wait. Did... did you just make Seltzer And Friedberg FUNNY?
- Often the lampshades aren't over anything at all, they just ARE.
edited 24th Jul '14 9:35:12 PM by MacronNotes
Macron's notes
From Sufficiently Advanced Alien:
This entry on An Economy Is You:
- Spiritual successor Bio Shock is exactly the same (minus the videogame cartridges). Except in this case there is a machine that is explicitly for selling ammo. You'd think that firearms wouldn't be allowed to begin with inside an underwater city with big glass windows all over the place.
- Pah. That's just the kind of short-sighted hand-holding you'd expect from government.
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Until further notice
Oh dear. I know I shouldn't be laughing at the image and caption for Evil Cripple, but... it's perfect.![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
edited 4th Aug '14 7:06:57 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Perpetually tired
From Real Men Wear Pink Real Life:
Lol no.
\*ded*
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else