Trains Do Not Work That Way is probably the better name, but I gotta say, I love Flunked Basic Training.
We don't have a Flunked Basic Training trope already (literal version)? wow.
I like Trains Do Not Work That Way although I would hate to snowclone.
edited 3rd Nov '10 5:51:11 AM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!I dislike Flunked Basic Training because it will get confused with its literal meaning.
You're going to hate me for this pun, Loco Locomotives.
Fight smart, not fair.You Fail Basic Training Forever I believe is the actual trope. If we snowclone off that it's going to confuse people. Just Train Wrong is great for the pun alone.
edited 3rd Nov '10 6:43:00 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Anyone wanna crown this? Last time I tried crowning I was confronted with an enclosed instruction book that was shinty-six pages long and I'm pretty sure it had ???? as step two.
I like Just Train Wrong best.
Attached a crowner. I'm skipping the rename proposal in this case because I think we're pretty much in agreement that the existing title is awful.
edited 3rd Nov '10 10:29:25 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"...Though the pun isn't as Made Of Win as Just Plane Wrong.
edited 3rd Nov '10 10:53:06 AM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Yeah you're in agreement that it's a bad pun and a snowclone so you're changing it to a bad pun and a snowclone. Not being a bad pun and snowclone that suits your tastes isn't a rename reason.
The problem that Did Not Choo The Research has that Just Train Wrong doesn't is that Choo gives no context of what it's about, while Train does. I originally though it was going to be about Asian names the make Choo part of it.
Fight smart, not fair.OK so Fighteer was post 9, I was post 13 and arguments with words and reasons are appearing in 15 and 16.
Did Not Choo Choo The Research. He he.
What's wrong with Trains Do Not Work That Way? It's barely a snowclone at all, being Exactly What It Says on the Tin. All these other names are just as bad as the original for being obtuse and indecipherable.
Want to rename a trope? Step one: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.You get a vote like anyone else.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Just Plane Wrong works because it puns off a homophone, something that "Just Train Wrong" doesn't. Besides, we don't need any potential confusion over "train" (noun) versus "train" (verb), which is why puns like You Need More Training don't work.
edited 3rd Nov '10 8:50:17 PM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.^ Assuming you've read Just Plane Wrong first to know where the snowclone came from. Which isn't an issue for many of us regular Tropers, but a first-time user (which we're supposedly writing for) may not get it.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.We can't help the fact that train can mean two different things but somehow humanity survives.
This was a matter of some debate some time ago but the general movement was that our titles have to work if they are being used around the wiki in sentences and the like and, to put it simply, have to be better than dead space. They should, in context, give an indication of what you are talking about so that the person can continue to read the page without confusion.
By this standard train (fitness) and train (locomotive) isn't going to be an issue because we won't have a blank page with just Just Train Wrong floating in the middle.
It's not a very good pun though: "Just Plain Wrong" isn't a "stock" enough phrase nor long enough to make the substitution apparent.
Just Train Wrong is the best so far, but Did Not Work On The Railroad is close.
edited 3rd Nov '10 5:14:36 PM by FarseerLolotea
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I honestly thought this was a bad typo when I first saw it. Seriously, we need a much better train pun.
Did Not Work On The Railroad? Flunked Basic Training (horrible, I know)? Trains Do Not Work That Way?