Talk:Eat Poop You Cat

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Etymology? 70.95.220.131 04:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

This page is a real reference... however odd Why should it be deleted?

The consensus on W:VFD was indeed to keep - the note stating it had been suggested for deletion has been removed from the article. IMSoP 23:46, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I suggest this page be retitled, or aliased, as "Telephone Pictionary".

My circle of Chicago-based comics nerd friends have been doing this for years without any actual name for the activity itself. The byproducts, however, we have simply called "corpses" (as in exquisite, of course).

I've never heard it as anything but "paper telephone". 69.180.13.107 02:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm certainly glad that this wasn't deleted. I played this game in college, and yes, the person who taught us actually did refer to it as "Eat Poop, You Cat". It's a great game. --Hermitage 02:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teledraw

I've always heard of this game as entitled "teledraw". I recommend this is mentioned somewhere, as it is a lot more aesthetically pleasing than the current name, and teledraw might entice more people to play or try it out.

And I've always heard it called Telephone Pictionary - I was very surprised to get a redirect to the scatological Eat Poop You Cat. Since I already see a mention of Telephone Pictionary here... how valid would that be as a retitling? Is this a regional/institutional variation we could discuss on the page? UltraNurd 15:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

While hardly great evidence, some Googling suggests that EPYC is more common with about 10,700 pages mentioning it versus Telephone Pictionary's 1,880 page mentions. In the absense of better evidence, I'm against changing it. As for discussing regional variations in name, that would be a great addition if any details were available. — Alan De Smet | Talk 01:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I think that the article should be renamed. Clearly, the game is known by several different names amongst different circles of people in different regions. When faced with this situation, it doesn't make sense to me that you would use the most weird-sounding, non-generic, non-descriptive, proprietary-sounding, controversial, inappropriate-for-children-and-polite-company, most-unlike-all-the-other-names name. E.g., I've always known this game by the name of "fax machine" (which I always took to be a play on words with "telephone"). If this article had been named Telephone Pictionary, or teledraw, or any of the other alternative names mentioned, I would have plausibly been able to guess that it was referring to a game like fax machine, because there is a family resemblance between all those names. But with "Eat Poop You Cat", I have no clue that it is related to the game I know as fax machine until I delve into the article. Which, all things being equal, is not what you want in a title. I think these considerations should outweigh the (admittedly "hardly great") evidence cited above. -David 216.104.211.5 21:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thesentencegame is "original"

Hi Alan - I noticed that there is now a second link to an online version of the game, so I figured I'd make the distinction that thesentencegame.com is the original online version of the game. This is substantiated by the dates that each site went public. No big deal, but I was surprised that you decided to revert the change. I'd be happy to discuss it though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.169.166.235 (talk • contribs) 09:58, March 7, 2007. (The preceding was copied over from here)

([1] is reversion in question.) I reverted it because "original" and "huge" cannot be easily verified. It appears to predate EatPoopUCat, but there might be older sites we're unfamiliar with. And huge is a bit subjective. — Alan De Smet | Talk 05:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, how about "over five thousand" instead of "huge"?
"Original", I think, is substantiated by a google search of "sentence game", "eat poop you cat", "teledraw" or any of the other variations on the name mentioned in this article. If another, older, site exists, it doesn't seem to be public. I appreciate the time you've put into this page, btw - very impressive.

[edit] Links

I tried to add a link to the recently-released Facebook version of EPYC, and it was auto-reverted. Given that there are already two versions linked to that are essentially the same, I don't see the harm in linking to the Facebook version. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.46.168 (talk) 16:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

What is noteworthy about the Facebook version? The two here are notable because one claims 7,000 completed games, while the other is interactive in the web browser. Both are open to the general web-browsing public. — Alan De Smet | Talk 19:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)