Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
(although I still don't know if there is an actual pun in there)
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
wait, what?
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
why, then you'll be a man, my soto!
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
i don't know what possessed me to post that
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago) Yes, I am saying exactly that. It took me ages to see that. Sorry for the thread derail. Nothing to see here, carry on.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i never made the tennyson connection before, but i don't know alfred IRL or anything like that to trigger a last-name connection.
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
the tender grace of a pun that was missed
― estela, Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
lol
this is blowing my mind a bit. Why would you have to know alfred personally to make the connection with the only person in history who has been called alfred, lord anything
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a powerful name. This what its owner had to say of it:
"A kind of walking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name to myself silently till, all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true life."
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah, why would you need to know a minor Victorian poet personally to make the connection with the world's greatest living rock critic? (xpost)
― rallizes mcguire (unregistered), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Well if you've never heard of Tennyson that's one thing, & not really "missing the pun". But like... If you were aware that there was a recording artist called del tha funky homosapien, and I posted for like a decade under the name "d3lg4do tha funky homosapien" & you didn't realise that the one was related to the other, that would be crazy whether or not you knew that that was my surname or were familiar with dtfh's oeuvre
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Meek milton
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
In my case for a long time some part of my brain decided it was a play on the Cordwainer Smith character Lord Sto Odin and even though I know Alfie doesn't read that stuff I just couldn't dislodge this clearly erroneous thought and see the obvious.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Explanation vmic, absolved
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
also, it's possible to have heard of tennyson yet not be so aware of the “alfred, lord tennyson" name/title construct, esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention
witness, wtf’s up with tennyson's name is frequent online question
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I thought Emily Post Punk was like what she does on Twitter, post punk-related stories.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Though I've never heard of her until a dozen posts ago.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Does she do that as a career or is she a part-time post-punk?
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
let it be known that I almost adopted the DN "d3lg4do tha fun quixo most apian", but while he is fun & rides around ilx courteously righting wrongs I don't feel our eponymous hero pertains greatly to bees
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/1/17/Bumblebee_Man.png/250px-Bumblebee_Man.png
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
accidentally racist display names i didn't make
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
ay
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
:-)
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention
I don't think 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson' follows convention, off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else with that 'Forename, Lord Surname' construction - I'm very possibly wrong about that though!
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
B-b-but isn't Alfred his surname?
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Tennyson, I mean, not Sotosyn.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Nope, he got me again. I blame Alfred College.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Time for a new screenname, I guess
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
still confused myself
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-306058.html
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
btw, even though it's ridiculously obvious, I'd never really thought about Alfred, Lord Sotosyn being a reference to Alfred, Lord Tennyson either!
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
That straight dope discussion was pretty useful, thanks. Now I sort know why in Isaac Newton bios the guy who got him a job at the mint and was apparently the paramour of his nice is variously referred to as Montagu or Halifax.
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
In the kindest way possible what the fuck is wrong with you all
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
this is my Ralph wiggum dreaming of a blue & white dress
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
wins, did you ever stop to think that when it seems like there's something wrong with the whole of ilx except you, that maybe there's nothing wrong with us? huh? well? did you?
(aimless folds his arms across his chest and looks exceedingly self-satisfied)
― Aimless, Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
"george, lord byron"
About 30,000 results (0.38 seconds)
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
(this is where i confess i don't remember ever consciously recognising Alfred's DN as a Tennyson ref)
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
what the goddamn hell
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 11:43 AM (48 seconds ago)
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
this incidence of dyspunia has clearly upset you
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
hey, it's entirely possible it has registered at some point down the years, but it's barely even a pun as such
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
It isn't a pun! Unless the "syn" corresponds to sth in which case I have missed a pun. This changes nothing
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
all freed, lord, so to sin
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
feel like after a bit any long-term display name just kinda drifts off your front brain without making an impression of meaning
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
I can see that, things like "dr morbius" are p divorced from their original referents by now. This changes nothing
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Lol drash btw
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
(Xp)Of course it isn't a pun. If it were in fact a pun, some of us might have decoded it sooner. But there is no Display Names That Aren't Quite Puns That You Had Missed Thread.
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
psotoalfredrine
― rallizes mcguire (unregistered), Sunday, 14 June 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
"george, lord byron"About 30,000 results
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link