Opaque name, weak inbounds: Gold Burier

The name is a poor attempt to play off Gold Digger, and the Related page shows extremely poor links. It seems an ideal target for a rename.

Ideas?

Repulsed By Wealth comes to mind, but I don't think it's a great name.

It's also an Exactly What It Says on the Tin trope: heaps of paranoid folks, spies and criminals bury gold somewhere as a last-ditch back-up in case things go horribly wrong and they need money while on the run, etc. Seems misleading on that basis.

edited 22nd May '11 11:06:50 PM by Camacan

Which is precisely what I Thought It Meant until I actually looked at the page.

I move we find a new name for Gold Burier and YKKTW a new trope for squirrelling gold away for a (desperate) rainy day under that name.

Suggestions for Gold Burier

• Not with Them for the Money
• I Dont Need Your Money Honey

(I was toying with Love Over Gold — but that suggests two suitors to me.)

edited 23rd May '11 2:59:51 AM by Camacan

Recommend The Hoarder for your suggested YKTTW.

That sounds a whole 'nother trope again, and much more general. This one would just be buried gold, for when it all goes horribly wrong and the character needs to get back to basics. But I'm sidetracking the discussion really. Main point is Gold Burier is a bad snowclone and needs a rename. (Eddy's again expressed a strong dispreference for the excess of snowclones we've got.)

EDIT: And more nuanced discussion followed. Gah.

edited 23rd May '11 5:30:22 AM by Camacan

Link the YKTTW when you make it, we'll discuss it there.

I wouldn't call it a snowclone, but I do think it's a bad name.

Yeah I guess that's right, it is a one-off — don't we have a templated series, like calling Black Widow Grave Digger and calling Marry for Love Love Digger. It just smelt clone-y.

(And it's a trickier-ly use of the original — if it had been cloned off "digger" the reader is in with a chance of getting it. But "gold" could be anything, you have to guess it's an inversion.)

edited 23rd May '11 3:29:22 AM by Camacan

The Hoarder is a horrid name. Horders are people who collect stuff to the point where they can't move in their own homes because it's so filled to the brim with junk and garbage. It will be too easily confused.

edited 23rd May '11 9:37:20 AM by shimaspawn

I agree that the name is rather non-indicative of the actual trope, but perhaps that partially has to do with me not knowing what the word "burier" means.

Anyway, I made a single proposition rename crowner here.

No, it's not just you. I think the name is pretty obviously a Bad Snowclone (and the votes say I'm not alone), and the fact that this does sound like another trope just makes it worse.

Unfortunately, none of the rename suggestions really seem that catchy.

12:0 for rename, can't get clearer than that.

Time for some more new name suggestions, maybe we can get a alt-name crowner started:

• Love Over Gold
• Ascetic Sweetie
• Lover Needing No Lucre
• Sugar Daddy Diabetic

edited 26th May '11 11:58:26 PM by Camacan

Doesnt Love Him For His Money?

Single Prop locked and unhooked at 12-0 in favor of rename.

Blank Alternative Names crowner hooked.

Bumping for more votes. If you can think of a catcher title, please add it.

So we're clearly in favor of a rename, but the interest in this one's dried up. I'm gonna slap a clock on this one and rename to the leading title Not with Them for the Money when the clock dings, baring major objections.

edited 7th Jun '11 7:30:12 PM by Camacan

Clock has dung. Again the clock seems to have helped voting and we got +12 for Not with Them for the Money vs +2 for the (similar) nearest rival. Rename done.