Who gave me my custom title?

**hotreds** · 09-12-2011, 07:27 PM

I will not tell you anything tomorrow!

**Go West Young Man** · 09-12-2011, 07:35 PM

On a related note, how have you been here since 2008 and never noticed the custom titles getting handed out????

**JoshuaNY** · 09-12-2011, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Go West Young Man

On a related note, how have you been here since 2008 and never noticed the custom titles getting handed out????

That is a very valid point. I am curious myself.

**nemo** · 09-12-2011, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by captp

Heinlein? Really? I thought for sure I got that from my dad; he never read Heinlein, but I read a lot of him. Maybe I just thought he was as smart as Heinlein and got them confused.

I always thought it was Mark Twain. And Robert Heinlein was my neighbor.

thanks professorchaos!

**RichGem** · 09-12-2011, 08:06 PM

Ouch has put lipstick on a pig. The pig didn't look any better.

**Quietville** · 09-12-2011, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by maxman

This guy knows the answer.

Lol'd hard!

**Quietville** · 09-12-2011, 08:15 PM

Seriously! Who gives us our titles though? Not a fan of mine....

**beginish** · 09-12-2011, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Quietville

Seriously! Who gives us our titles though? Not a fan of mine....

Keep posting. This too shall pass.

**RichGem** · 09-12-2011, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Quietville

Seriously! Who gives us our titles though? Not a fan of mine....

The Kabal of Mods (with advice from the Stonecutters, Illuminati, and a few other secret societies) hands out the custom titles. Yours, however, is just a standard one related to post count.

**captp** · 09-12-2011, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by captp

Heinlein? Really? I thought for sure I got that from my dad; he never read Heinlein, but I read a lot of him. Maybe I just thought he was as smart as Heinlein and got them confused.

Did a quick search on Teaching Pigs to Sing. Seems to be from Heinlein's Time Enough for Love. Can't remember anything about it, but I know I read it. Curiously, I also found an attribution to Twain, but not what work it would be from. Oh, sweet mysteries of life.

**_JP_** · 09-12-2011, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by _MementoMori_

This comment has placed an image in my head of a council of solemn, stone-faced moderators in a ghoulishly lit room and seated around a glittering black conference table. You were arguing your case for whatever horrible custom title you wanted to visit upon me, and some other faceless, less malicious moderator seated at the table tried to reason with you and talk you down from your cruel pronouncement. Lightning may or may not have shot from someone's fingertips.

I don't know if that's how it really happened, but that's what your comment put into my mind...

I've always pictured it as several Jim Carey types behaving in a highly animated cartoonish manner while swapping maniacal laughter.

The one thing that I do know is that if you hear a SHAZZAM its too late to duck.

**ouch** · 09-12-2011, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by RichGem

Ouch has put lipstick on a pig. The pig didn't look any better.

Not since college. And, in my defense, it was very late.

**Doc4** · 09-13-2011, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by hotreds

I will not tell you anything tomorrow!

Oddly enough, that's how it turned out.

**xraygun** · 09-13-2011, 08:29 AM

I think Heinlein gets credit for the singing pig, and Twain was the wrestling pig.

**Jim** · 09-13-2011, 08:48 AM

As long as I get credit for the BBQ ribs I can agree to that.

**AABCDS** · 09-13-2011, 09:03 AM

If you thought your custom title is bad, check out thebigspendur's.

**professorchaos** · 09-13-2011, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by captp

Heinlein? Really? I thought for sure I got that from my dad; he never read Heinlein, but I read a lot of him. Maybe I just thought he was as smart as Heinlein and got them confused.

Perhaps it is just a bit of Americana attributed to Heinlein?