Talk:The Name Game

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[edit] Laura Branigan's Version

Makes a huge error. Instead of saying Fred drop the "F" she says Hugh drop the "H" go "ooooo." This doesn't work because you use the substitute letters B, F, and M you never use H so you'd never drop it. So the first two letters can only be the same with B, F and M. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.142.45.254 (talk) 05:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Banana

While I'm sure the source is correct I have never heard a version where it is not said "BO-na-na" not Ba-NA-NA" Thus they are not pronouncing banana correctly


[edit] Sentence on children getting others to swear

I took the following sentence out of the article. It may be true, but even if it is, it's clearly original research that is not on either of the two external links. 69.177.176.154 23:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

When children discover that names like Chuck or Mitch will result in gratuitous swearing in the course of the song, they invariably encourage their unsuspecting friends to use such names when they sing it.

When children discover that there's a Wiki page which purports to list all the profanity that can potentially be created by the game, they're invariably encouraged to rack their brains to add all manner of salty though I daresay not outright profane language to the article. As neither the original song nor any of the notable recordings mentioned contain these words, why is it in the article? While I can sympathize that most parents and teachers don't want their kids chanting mantras of phallus and fart, for example, are they actually profane words? As you can see by examining the edit history, other editors have removed such potentially colorful names time and again, only to have them re-added by either said naughty kids or embarrassed guardians. Is the service provided to the latter worth having this sentence here as a magnet to the former and an endless cycle of adds and deletes? We do have better things to do, no? Abrazame (talk) 19:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] (X−1) as the name without the first consonant sound

Should this be "as the name without the first consonant sound and its preceding vowels?" or "as the name without any beginning consonant sound" - I mean, if you have Adam, does he become Afam, Abam etc. (implied by the current wording), Fam and Bam (the former disambiguation), or Fadam and Badam (the latter)? If there's no general consensus on this, it should be mentioned instead of just ignoring the case of names beginning with vowels. -VJ 19:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Munchkin

Ah, now I know where the space version of the card game "Munchkin" gets "bobaser" and "bananafanafofaser". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.181.251.66 (talk) 04:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Scentless Apprentice

The main riff to this Nirvana song is very similiar to the melody to the Name Game. Also , the article for Scentless Apprentice says that it was written as "chuck bo buck" on early set-lists. Chuck is one of the names that will result in profanity from the Name Game. If anyone has a source for this then it should be in the In Popular Culture section of this article. Connör (talk) 00:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)