Misleading Title: Forget It Hes Rolling

Forget It, He's Rolling was launched yesterday. It was pointed out in the YKTTW that the Trope Namer was the opposite to the trope, but it seems to have been launched under this name anyway.

The trope is "Person makes a non-sequitur during a speech. Person listening to speech focuses on the non-sequitur rather than the speech."

The Trope Namer is a reply to the person focusing on the non-sequitur, telling them to let it go, effectively the reverse of the trope.

Suggesting a cut and return to YKTTW for a better name, or a rename from here.

Terrible title. This one should not have been launched, and I'm curious how we can name it in such a way as to adequately distinguish it from I Take Offense to That Last One anyway.

Distracted By The Non Sequitur?

edited 22nd Jun '11 7:25:15 AM by Fighteer

Bad name is bad. "Forget it, he's rolling" seems to refer to some gambling trope, or possibly Dungeons And Dragons.

Suggest renaming to Non Sequitur Distraction, or redirecting to Completely Missing The Point.

I Thought It Meant something to do with gaming. What an awful title. All of the rename suggestions so far sound okay.

As soon as I read the description I made the connection with Animal House, but my first thought was something about Unnecessary Combat Roll.

I assumed it had something to do with... what the trope naming line was actually referencing, being unable to stop someone from continuing and just rolling with it.

Ditto.

I thought it meant someone being on a roll, as it were. Which is very different.

Support rename.

I say go for a Rename.

Rename.

Rename.

I haven't gone over it too thoroughly yet, but how many of the entries here also fall under Comically Missing the Point (as opposed to Completely Missing it)?

I may be one of the KNIVES...but, wow. What an awful title. I think of some guy rollong down a hill or something.

Yikes... what a title.

Here is a single proposition rename crowner. I figure that if it gets a good number of votes in favor of a rename soon, we can go to alternative titles pretty quickly.

edited 7th Jul '11 4:25:09 PM by LouieW

I thought it was referring to someone driving away (as in, They See Me Rollin'). I might have made a better guess if it has said "on a roll", but I still would have been wrong.

I'm going to feel terrible if I'm the only one who thought this was a trope about MDMA.

I instantly thought of the trope-naming line (even though I haven't seen the movie in question), and I thought it referred to... well, what that line was actually doing. Instead of the thing it was responding to.

See, I instantly thought of this:

It looks like we have consensus on a rename. Suggestions?

Empty alt titles crowner hooked.

Bump (unresolved)

Bump, take 2. Still unresolved.

As of this post (and after my votes), Non Sequitur Distraction is the only option still in the positives (11 for vs. 3 against). If no meaningful opposition comes up soonish, I'd say this one can be finished up in short order.

I figured that the rename to Non Sequitur Distraction had sufficient support given how new this trope is, so I made Forget It, He's Rolling a redirect, fixed the wicks, and put notes on the Renamed Tropes page and in the renamed tropes thread. Feel free to check my work.

In the event that I acted prematurely, I could reverse the change pretty quickly. However, I think that the fairly unwavering 80% support in the crowner should be enough to take action here.

edited 5th Oct '11 4:30:11 PM by LouieW