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do you need a route name?
August 19, 2007, 02:05:57 pm
Here is a proper list of cool route names   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28full%29

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#1 Re: do you need a route name?
August 19, 2007, 04:59:21 pm
katz will be jizzing in his pants

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#2 Re: do you need a route name?
August 19, 2007, 08:55:28 pm
If I do something good and impressive, I'm going to call it "The Black Sun Empire"....

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#3 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 10:59:22 am
If I do something good and impressive, I'm going to call it "The Black Sun Empire"....

So we''l be waiting a fair time for anything called "The Black Sun Empire" then...  ;)

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#4 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 02:56:58 pm
 :agree:

That's why I put "if" at the beginning of the sentence  ;)

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#5 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 04:18:34 pm

I've never quite got why people think that just because they have converted something to latin, it makes a good route name?

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#6 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 04:22:56 pm
Indeed. Pretentious, moi?

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#7 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 05:16:20 pm
Pretentious, moi?

That ain't latin! :P

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#8 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2007, 07:30:47 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28full%29

They sound like spells from Harry Potter. 

Apart from said spells from Harry Potter, I have a store of unused new route names on my phone, because I find whenever you do need one, all your really cool and fantastic ideas escape you. 

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#9 Re: do you need a route name?
August 21, 2007, 01:50:25 pm
I think it's kind of like having a tattoo done in Chinese characters or something - "well, i've got my name tattooed on my arse....but ooh!....it's in an exotic script which makes it seem mysterious and interesting" :)

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#10 Re: do you need a route name?
August 21, 2007, 01:52:45 pm
or a bit like almost naming a campervan "bubblegoose".

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#11 Re: do you need a route name?
August 22, 2007, 12:21:43 pm
katz will be jizzing in his pants
You've a problem with Il Migliore Fabbro?

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#12 Re: do you need a route name?
August 22, 2007, 01:57:38 pm
i dont need thos stinkin' names.
yesterday i sent a new little problem and named it "la macchina levitatrice del dottor lorenzoni", that means "doctor lorenzoni's levitating machine".
 ;)

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#13 Re: do you need a route name?
August 22, 2007, 02:13:51 pm
Yes, but that's local lingo to you.

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#14 Re: do you need a route name?
August 22, 2007, 02:16:39 pm
i was kidding. i love those phrases.

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#15 Re: do you need a route name?
August 30, 2007, 03:17:45 pm
I think it's kind of like having a tattoo done in Chinese characters or something - "well, i've got my name tattooed on my arse....but ooh!....it's in an exotic script which makes it seem mysterious and interesting" :)

The desire to do this comes from the same part of the brain responsible for the brief obsession with the wingdings font, just after the release of Windows 3.1

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#16 Re: do you need a route name?
August 19, 2008, 02:20:16 pm
http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/2625/5glossary.html

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Tom Cox's Traverse:   Work done by a man who bustles about doing nothing. Usually amplified by adding "running twice round the scuttle butt and once round the longboat".

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#17 Re: do you need a route name?
August 19, 2008, 04:42:28 pm
I think it's kind of like having a tattoo done in Chinese characters or something - "well, i've got my name tattooed on my arse....but ooh!....it's in an exotic script which makes it seem mysterious and interesting" :)

Always risky, never know what it really says. ever seen the film hard men? this guy has chinese writing down his spine, he had it translated and it said "big man with a little dick." a couple of friends of mine ended up with "lesbians" tattooed on their bellies!

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#18 Re: do you need a route name?
August 20, 2008, 07:17:50 pm
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why would any one want to call their route that? i dont care what language its in its crap!

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#19 Re: do you need a route name?
August 23, 2008, 10:46:05 am
I like it when a route name tells you something about the climb, the setting, the first ascent etc. Deciding a route name before youve even done it seems presumptuous and potentially lacks character.

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#20 Re: do you need a route name?
August 23, 2008, 11:48:15 am
I like it when a route name tells you something about the climb, the setting, the first ascent etc. Deciding a route name before youve even done it seems presumptuous and potentially lacks character.

 :agree:

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#21 Re: do you need a route name?
August 23, 2008, 03:21:19 pm
What, like the Pinch, and the Pinch 2?

 

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