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[META] "Let Op" a letdown
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Nightmare Tony
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inio
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aliendial wrote:
And they let you all name yourselves the utterly boring beekeepers


I think a "boring" name like "beekeepers" has a distinct advantage when approaching someone standing near a pay phone. Here's a little simulation of why:

"beekeepers":
You: Very Happy Hello. Are you a beekeeper?
Them: Confused Uh... No.

"Melissa's Minions":
You: Very Happy Hello. Are you a Minion of Melissa?
Them: Shocked Uh... <runs away>
[5 minutes later]
Cop: Please stop loitering around this payphone. We've been getting complaints.
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aliendial wrote:
Besides, the Admins name the forums here. And they let you all name yourselves the utterly boring beekeepers, so I think you can cut them some slack. Very Happy


Ummm...hey. That was me. Sad

The first night we started investingating the sites, we were flooding #unfiction with all our bee talk, until we decided it was time to take it to another channel...a couple minutes of what to call it (#ilovebees sounded so lame) I suggested #beekeepers (as a homage to #cloudmakers and #jawbreakers). Got a few chuckles from the crowd, so I ran off to register it.

As for Hunted Apiary, that was the brainchild of Space, and Space alone. (I have to admit I had to look up apiary in the dictionary.) And I think Giskard added the Let Op part later.

*shrug*
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HitsHerMark
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inio wrote:
aliendial wrote:
And they let you all name yourselves the utterly boring beekeepers


I think a "boring" name like "beekeepers" has a distinct advantage when approaching someone standing near a pay phone. Here's a little simulation of why:


Me: Hello, are you a Dendrite?
Them: No.... I'm Jewish...

I guess it just doesn't quite have the same ring...
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Cherry Cotton
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inio wrote:
You: Very Happy Hello. Are you a Minion of Melissa?


No, we're the Mrs. Melissas. Care to sign up? I have pamphlets... Very Happy

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MNPundit
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 		I thought Let Op was something like a nickname for the Operator.

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Gimme Gimme Octopus
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HitsHerMark wrote:


And secondly... I don't think "beekeepers" is boring. I think it's actually quite subtle and cool... It's a normal enough word that it doesn't throw people off to much if you say something like, "if anybody shows up looking for 'beekeepers', send them my way please" to your waitress, but uncommon enough to set us appart.

Though, now that we understand how the Operator's Axons work, it would be amusing if we called ourselves "dendrites".


"Dendrites" is cool, but "Beekeepers" goes so nicely with "Cloudmakers". Rolling Eyes

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 		If you want to be all highfalutin', you could always call yourself an "apiator." Smile
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Can-ned Food
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 		Gee, I always thought -- and this is just from the feeling of the words phoneticly in my mind -- that "Let Op!" meant something like "Get Going!", "Begin!", or [edit] "Have at it!", like you would shout at a race, as a battle cry, or some other enthusiastic phrase.

Hey, it was going to become one of those things linguists and phraseologists would ponder over for decades, if I had my way. Smile
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Prisoner2401 wrote:
If you want to be all highfalutin', you could always call yourself an "apiator." Smile


You know, I was all set to buy myself a pair of apiator sunglasses, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. They made me look a bit too bug-eyed! Laughing

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 		I've always felt that 'beekeepers' was a natural name for this group given 'I Love Bees' and so on. Yeah, I was a Cloudmaker, but still, it makes more sense than any other option and is easier to explain to outsiders.

As for 'Let Op!', I was initially confused by that and quickly gave up trying to figure it out; I presumed it was some sort of in-joke. Oh well.
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OmegaX
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someone above wrote:
boring beekeepers


Okay, I may have the quote a little bit off, but still.... *PQI 'false' beeps* Beekeepers has a lot more of a ring to it than, say, axon finders, or ilovebees'ers (as some people at flamefaqs would probably have called us, based on their names for people from LUE: LUEsers, and other things like that).
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Adrian wrote:

As for 'Let Op!', I was initially confused by that and quickly gave up trying to figure it out; I presumed it was some sort of in-joke. Oh well.


In-joke to whom? Any one of the people active on the forums would've been more than happy to help you out with the meaning of the phrase, and its usage on the forums as a topic header/ersatz moniker. I mean, it is an in-joke, after a fashion, to the denizens here. It was appended to the Haunted Apiary after we were made aware of the Halo 2 trailer. Before that, it was just Haunted Apiary.

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Giskard
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 		Re: [META] "Let Op" a letdown
Prisoner2401 wrote:
With the great power of being a very early beekeeper and helping to name the experience, comes the great responsibility of naming the experience something compelling and comprehensible -- not goofy and unintelligible.

Funny how something unfamiliar is instantly dubbed "goofy and unintelligible". One could argue that something that is not instantly intelligible might also be used to attract attention or challenge the mind... something not uncommon on a forum for ARG'ers.

I guess, in naming the next game, we have to take into account that there are also people who would rather not look farther than what they already know and recieve their information in easy, digestible chunks of "normal" language.

fireball wrote:
And I think Giskard added the Let Op part later.

That is actually a common misconception. Space was responsible for adding "Let Op" as well, he added it after asking me what it meant. Remember he was in the Netherlands shortly before ILB took off... and I for one think it was funny he did, I think it gives the name a funny little twist away from the seriousness of the word "apiary" Very Happy
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