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Flurb Rating

Postby Grix » Fri May 11, 2007 1:51 pm

Stolen from e-Sam cause I thought it was funny:

Matthias Fleewinter wrote:ou can rate yourself or anyone else on their flurbiness quite simply.

1. Access the ORK's search page.

2. Take every real word (or proper noun) from your persona name (except for common words you wouldn't capitalize in a book or movie title, like 'a' and 'the') and do a search on the ORK for it. For instance, if your name was Grimwolf Firerazor of Blackspire, you'd do a search for 'grim', 'wolf', 'fire' 'razor', 'black', and 'spire'.

3. Record the number of hits you got from that name element. In the above example, you would get 56, 208, 112, 6, 148, and 4.

4. The total of the number of hits you got, and that's your flurbiness score. (534)

What the scores mean:

0-1: You must have made up some weird made-up name like "Bangor". You are not a flurb, but you come close.
2-5: Your name is original without being nutty. Good job! You are non-flurby and fancy-free.
6-10: Your name is mostly original. Not bad! Your level of flurbiness is negligible.
11-50: Uh oh! You probably have at least one "flurb word" in your name. Some hardcore stickjocks probably chuckled behind your back when you weren't looking.
51-100: Your name is pretty flurby. I'd be worried if I were you.
101-500: Oh my gosh you are teh Flurb! You'd best change your name ASAP.
501+: *sigh* there's no hope for you. How can you live with yourself?


Matthias also pointed out afterwards that you should count hits to your own ork entry, thus anyone with a first and last name should get at least a 2 (1 for each name).

My score is 1.
Hannibal's score is 436.
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Postby Griffin » Fri May 11, 2007 2:27 pm

My score is 8 - for carrying over my real name to Amtgard because it's pretty damn flurby in and of itself.

Using my last name adds another 6.

Common variant spellings add another 14 - so my score is somewhere between 8 and 36. Why include variant spellings? Well for a start, my wonderful Sheriff usually uses one to address me in email, so I might as well...

Oh, and one more if you count the award that I share a name with - though it is usually listed with one of the aforementioned variant spellings.

On another note though, I've always thought (i) that flurby meant role-playing obsessed and (ii) that RP names that are fusions of actual words are, by and large, pretty damn silly, and would primarily be used by less-flurby (by my definition) folks who wouldn't want a developed persona. Is this view of word-string names not shared by the Amtgard world? (Excepting, of course, anybody from Blackspire - if their full name is what I think it is, any of their players can be excused virtually anything, as they've been lead pretty far astray.)
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Postby Grix » Fri May 11, 2007 2:38 pm

Well, this is mostly meant as silliness but a lot of people make a name with the standard formula of combining two words to come up with something they think is cool and intimidating. That's what's being made fun of.

You know, silly things like Redfalcon, Swiftdrake, CobraCommander...
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Postby deimos » Fri May 11, 2007 4:01 pm

*sniff*

How dare you bring up CobraCommander! My father was killed by a CobraCommander!
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Postby Faye » Fri May 11, 2007 4:30 pm

Griffin wrote:Why include variant spellings? Well for a start, my wonderful Sheriff usually uses one to address me in email, so I might as well...


Eh, Griffin, Griffon, Gryphon, Griffyn... whatever.

Hah, I only have a score of 5, unless I spell it "Fay", then I have 26.

... huh... Faye, Fay, Fae... crud.
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Postby Hannibal » Fri May 11, 2007 4:35 pm

grix wrote:
Hannibal's score is 436.


Can my slogan be "Hannibal hurting his knight with pride since 2006" ?
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Postby Ailliath » Sat May 12, 2007 11:29 am

i got 0... unless i count myself. then, uno
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Postby 'Will' Northam » Sun May 13, 2007 1:13 am

Hmmn.
I'm either 15, or 1022.

Wilbur = 1
Force = 4
North = 10
Am = 1007

Far too many people have an 'am' in their name . . .

If I just go with Will Northam:

Will = 115
North = 10
Am = 1007

1132! Oh, yeah!
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Postby Sita » Mon May 14, 2007 11:56 am

Sita: 3
Maha: 6
Kali: 21

Woman: 9
at: 1162
Arms: 25


I duno, do you capitalize At? Do I add the Woman at Arms?

I'm confused

w/o: 30
w/o at: 64
w/everything: 1226

Somehow I don't think the at works... and Kali is pretty damn flurby.

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Sita is also a Hindu goddess, but I derive the name not from that, but from a book series. The goddess is gonsidered that of all motherly virtues that women look up to *blech*. Needless to say, I'm not in aggreement with that part of it.

Yea, like any of you give a damn ;-) I just thought the picture was awesome.
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Postby Grix » Mon May 14, 2007 12:12 pm

It'd just be your name, no titles or anything.

So for you, just 30.
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Postby thistledown » Wed May 16, 2007 9:56 pm

Thistledown Notagnome

Let's see.... 'a' doesn't count, so...

Thistle: 3
Down: 4
Not: 30
Gnome: 3

and myself: 2

So... 42. Yay flurbs!
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Postby Cream Puff » Sat May 19, 2007 10:48 am

I got three... somehow there is a second Cream Puff out there now... but no record page for him.

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Postby Hannibal » Sat May 19, 2007 1:19 pm

Are you a pink cream puff?
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Postby La Atti Dah » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:10 pm

Mine is a 0 La Atti Dah

I cannot even Find Myself
Maybe I am smarter than the Search page

or do I count

La = 1708
Atti = 12
Dah = 11

so do I get a '0' or do I get a '1731' ?

That would be the flurbiest name that does not even show up once... :shock:
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Postby Fiks » Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:57 pm

La Atti Dah wrote:I cannot even Find Myself


Yea, searching yields nothing. Must be something boinked with the your entry. edit: You do exist though: La Atti Dah.

Looking up my actual AmtGard name yields nothing. Looking up my unfortunant nickname returns me. So that's a 1. :P

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