I see the Awesomeness.
Okay with general idea. Checking the usage stats tells me it's floundering.
Fight smart, not fair.
I'll concur with the OP. I like the new name suggested there, too.
It has only 20 wicks, and that's including two redirect, wicks on index and wicks on other tropes.
I think it is worth refocusing this on either the Coat Of Contraband costume trope or the Seedy Street Vendor character
The Other Troper
That sounds too much like a porn trope.
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Coat Of Contraband is perfect.
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I really like Coat Of Contraband
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Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
^ Coat Of Contraband sounds like a coat made out of contraband materials, like an illegal invisibility cloak or something.
Coatfull Of Contraband? Coat Full of Contraband?
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^Agree that Coat Of Contraband sounds more like a contrabanded coat. Coat Full of Contraband makes more sense.
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The Other Troper
I guess the trope is not limited to watches. Maybe we should mention that in the description...
Seedy Street Vendor isn't bad, but the current name isn't bad either. It immediately makes me think of this trope, even before I read the description.
edited 16th Feb '12 2:47:16 PM by abk0100
^It makes you think of the trope immediately? It must make everyone think of the trope immediately. Coat Full of Contraband still makes my favourite.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Coat Full of Contraband is excellent.
Tsundere pet.
Trenchcoat Display Case? Coat Full of Contraband would be OK too.
Calling someone a pedant is an automatic Insult Backfire. Real pedants will be flattered.
Hammer of the Pervs
I don't see anything wrong with the current name - I still haven't looked at the page but I knew exactly what it is from reading the title of this thread. However, I like Flash Them Your Wares. Coat Full of Contraband is okay but a little unwieldy.
"Did anybody invent this stuff on purpose?" - Phillip Marlowe on tequila, Finger Man by Raymond Chandler.
The current name got me exactly to the trope definition. It doesn't seem that bad.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Dragon Writer
Coatful Of Contraband could also work (note the non-double L).
Seedy Street Vendor would be a related trope with some overlap, but not the same.
edited 16th Feb '12 8:00:21 PM by Stratadrake
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The Other Troper
Is the coat really the point of this trope, or is it about the standard black market and fencing setup in fiction?
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
I think the trope is about how the guy will always open up their coat and show off their wares.
On that note, Trenchcoat Storefront?
edited 16th Feb '12 8:16:56 PM by abk0100
Dragon Writer
^ Interesting title idea. And yeah, I agree that it's more about the trenchcoat presentation, not the vendor themselves.
edited 16th Feb '12 8:17:44 PM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Redirects Are Free. The words in Coat Full of Contraband and Trenchcoat Storefront are good search terms, the problem described in the OP probably wouldn't have happened.
edited 16th Feb '12 8:25:04 PM by rodneyAnonymous
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Previous crowner
showed consensus support for a rename.
Title is a Stock Phrase that's not even common, and doesn't evoke the "stuff hidden in coat" part. It's also too narrow. In fact, I (re-?)learned of its existence when trying to submit the same trope.
after an unfruitful search for it.
Proposed title: Coat of Contraband.
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