What's in a name?

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:45 pm

So far I've found that my comic, Reckless Youth shares it's name with a bunch of other things on and off web.

Reckless Youth dot com "is a free website where you can browse hot celebrity photos"

Reckless Youth is a wrestler who was apparently trained by Al Snow and who's real name is Tom Carter.

It's also the name of a emo/goth band (Actually, probably punk, emo punk.) which has led to some confusion with links and livejournals.

A biography of John F. Kennedy is titled "Reckless Youth" and I have a hardback copy of it somewhere in my room which my mum bought at a library a couple months back.

So yeah, ever noticed your comic's title being shared across weird places?

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:01 pm

My title is an idiomatic phrase so I see it a lot. I think the worst thing my comic shares its name with is that god awful song by Bewitched.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:02 pm

Gunmetal Annie is a type of shoe, but I knew that already. It is where I got the name, after all

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Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:08 pm

That just makes me like your comic even more, Mercury

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When I Googled "Coiling Spine," I saw lots of links to aneurisms, but nothing else actually called that.

Got the name from a period of time where all I was drawing were long lines of vertebrae in different patterns with a skull on the end, sometimes tangled with a long vine with a rose on the end.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:11 pm

there's about 5 zillion things called freedom fries but whatever .

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:17 pm

I remember writing an article about the actual Freedom Fries when they announced them. I wish I still had it. But that's where your name comes from! HSSSSSS!

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:20 pm

For about fifteen months I was watching a domain name of schoolspirit.com because it was continually under construction with nothing in it.

Just before I decided to get my own domain name, I checked it again, and it had been finished so I had no chance to take it anyway.

Seems it's a company that sells school supplies.

I think my use of the name is much better.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:22 pm

Role of the Die isn't shared with anything (anymore, anyway . . . I think there was some small store that used to be named that, but it went out of business or something), but RotD stands for a whole crapload of stuff, it seems, and a fair amount of it is RPG related.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:23 pm

ever since october there is a girl on the net joining any mindless community with the name junkriot, myspace type things, dA, LJ, and even AIM....>_> :chews her head off:

Avatar007 · Post by **Avatar007** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:32 pm

I think there's a (since been cancelled) TV series in the UK called "cold feet". Outside of that, it's a fairly uncommon english expression.

That's all I know of.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:39 pm

So far my name is unique enough or my comic obscure enough that no one has confused it with anything that I know of.

But let's see what Google has to say!

Hmm . . . most of the other Google listings are just pags that have the words in a sentence somewhere on them. It doesn't appear to be the title of anything.

I'm sure there used to be a personal website/blog of the same name, though. I never really checked out its content.

Glarryg · Post by **Glarryg** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:07 pm

I looked up the term "squid ninja" every place I could before using it for my comic. The two words are juxtaposed on many Spanish language results of a search engine search. Looking it up again today produced a new result; the Ninja Squid. It was cute until I saw the price; now I don't know what to think.

Glarryg

Snackbot · Post by **Snackbot** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:13 pm

Nope, there aren't any other "Vaguely Amazings" out there, since it is a fairly odd pairing of adverb and adjective.

Googling my name, however, will find some person who wrote a dissertation on "An Eigenvalue solution of the Helmholtz Equation with Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Boundaries using Finite element Methods with Application to Electromagnetic Waveguides".

I'm fairly confident that I'm smarter than him, though.

Anywherebuthere · Post by **Anywherebuthere** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:19 pm

Anywhere But Here was appearantly the name of some chick flick.

Which could explain why the series has devolved into one.

PieceOfSkunk · Post by **PieceOfSkunk** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:24 pm

A skunk is a furry animal than can emit a powerful stench when threatened. Or when attempting to woo a cat with a stripe accidentally painted on its back.

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:25 pm

Google Search for "ThatGuy" brings back a modest 67,200 results. Given that number, I'm pretty proud to be the 3rd entry

. Other sites include:

ThatGuy.com: A site by Mike Wooldridge, author of a series of "Teach Yourself..." books, includes blogs, photos, and even a webtoon.

ThatguyOnline.com: Site for "Thatguy," a 'High Energy Modern Rock band from Northern Virginia'.

ThatGuy Studios.com: Personal site of Michael Olguin, a teacher and radio personality in Tucson, Arizona.

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:31 pm

I doubt my comic name is shared by anything other than where I got it from, the highest level of difficulty in Gender Wars, an awesome PC game from '96, when people weren't afraid to make mission objectives like... Terror - your objective is to infiltrate this dorm/building and kill X number of female/male civilians, that'll teahc 'em!

Excellent game... hell, I still have the cd sitting in my game folder, even though it hasn't run on any of my computers in... at least 7 years... wait! my 486 laptop! I gotta try that when I get home!

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1670

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:49 pm

anywherebuthere wrote:Anywhere But Here was appearantly the name of some chick flick.

Which could explain why the series has devolved into one.

I think you mean evolved

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:56 pm

There's another group called Team Mayhem, an RC club, and modding group.

Blue Eyed Devil is a name of a song, no less.

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:06 pm

Hmm. Well, Arcadia happens to relate to the following:

---a town
---A game, Skies of Arcadia
---A university
---a book publisher
---a lighting company in the UK
---Joan of Arcadia, the tv show
---Anime Arcadia

When you add circle before or after Arcadia, my comic usually shows up. Which is kinda nice.