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Pointless Prizeless Challenge #12: Render A (Stupid) Story Title

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  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited January 2024

    New post for 2023 titles

    Books:

    • The Far Queue     ...and, of course, its sequel - Far Queue II !  cheeky
    • The Case Of The Suppository Repository
    • Quindlethrump The Troll   ...or perhaps Buttercup The Troll
    • Toshi Baba And The Faulty Keyboard
    • Moon Men From Mars
    • The Evitable Mise Of xyz     ...or something like that - you know, the opposite of The (In)evitable (De)mise Of xyz
    • Muffy The Umpire Slayer
    • Achilles' Willy   ...Achilles' Willies ?
    • The Sky Swimmers Of Archimedes 7
    • Uncle Carbuncle
    • The Time Flies   ...I think tht's already listed ?
    • The Bagoshite  ...something to do with nassty hobbittssess
    • The Prehensile Testicles Of Gerund Guatemala   ...inspired in part (guess which part) by Villa Incognito, a real book - look it up
    • Olduvai George
    • Dig-Dag-Dug !   ...seen on a T-shirt somewhere ?
    • Muffin's Meringues
    • The Umbrella Smeller     ...or Tyrant ?
    • A Beginners Guide To Putting Things On Top Of Other Things   ... the Monty Python classic
    • The Wholly Bullshit
    • Naked Tango
    • The Toothpaste Jugglers
    • The Papal Drone    ...sequel to The Papal Ass ?

    Characters:

    • Vincent Clinic
    • Amanda Studio
    • Vanilla Woodshaving     <= this one's probably my favourite name for a heroine
    • Felicity Strumpet     ...Fellatia Whipplestrumpet?
    • Dr Suppository    ...inspired by Dr Fallopian
    • Salacious Curdle   ....Crumble? Grumble ?
    • Quarrel/Querrule     ...the former was a James Bond character I think ?
    • Zebulon F Scrottlethwarbler/Wildebeeste
    • Fluenza Wanabe   ..could be Effluenza
    • Piety Perverström/Perversion
    • Reverend Sigismund Olaf McWorzel, vicar of the parish of Outsmouth and the church of St Beagle Of The Euphemism
    • Sydney Teller/Teacher
    • Trundleworth
    • Cromlech Stiltwalker
    • Generic Eric The Nondescript
    • Charlotte Bullwhisperer
    • Krint     ...sounds like a butler
    • Miss Goodride     ...James Bond Girl (sounds very familiar)
    • Topaz The Quaint     ...a fairly meek magician
    • Deeplord The  Unfathomable     
    • Petroleus The Unflammable

    Memorable lines:

    • From Adobe Mick - The famous opening line - "Call me Ishmael. Or Jemima. Whatever you want. It matters not one mote, for my name is Solomon Brunswick."
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  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,670

    Looks like it is going to be a fun one this year Pete!!!

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited August 2024

    Well 2023 didn't end up being much fun. Let's hope 2024 is an improvement. So here's a brand new post for the new year, a couple of weeks late but who's counting, for 2024 names and titles.

    And since this is in the Art Studio forum I'd better include some art a stupid picture as the last five posts, excepting Diomede's which includied a gallery link, haven't exhibited even a whiff of an image.

    So here's an old, rather poorly conceived and even poorerly implemented movie poster...

    You can see that I decided to leave all the stops firmly in, can't you ?

    STICK NO BILLS
    (aka reserved space for the poster)

    And on to the real reason for this post.

    Book titles for 2024:

    • ...I have a few written on scraps of paper somewhere which I'll add here when I find them
    • Dogsick And Spongebath Go Camping
    • Anoraknaphobia
    • The Stellar Aardvark
    • The Suppository Of Doom
    • The Sousaphone Of Trepidation
    • The Truffle Divers
    • King Leer

    Character names for 2024:

    Let's start 2024 with the ones from that poster

    • Valentine Voronoi
    • Jock Thruster
    • Barnstormley Crumphole
    • Verity Suffix   ...the eighth name.
    • Albert Prunewarbler   ...I think we had his brother Alembic back in January 2021 - the tenth name. And... (see line above)
    • English Nick   ...a bit of a wideboy and tea-leaf
    • American Nick  ...aka Nick the inaccurate slasher
    • Nick the prune
    • Joey the cow
    • Desiree Shagpile
    • Lewisson Crampet
    • Jericho Sandwich
    • Flamenca Spatula
    • Spinach McGuffin
    • Dr Edmund Homunculus   ...aka Big ed, of course !
    • Hamish McDevious

    And a few good words to roll around your palate and savour:

    • Gorn
    • seemly
    • vacuum
    • prodding
    • leap
    • bound
    • vole
    • recidivist   ...slightly dubious?
    • caribou

            omitted (if you don't know, don't ask)

    • ocelot
    • wasp
    • yowling

     

    (Feel free to nick* any of the titles in this thread for your own films, plays, novels, performance art pieces, etc, and to similarly nick any of the names)

     

     

    *That's English nick**, not American nick*** - obviously a couple more names to add
    **English Nick's a tea leaf
    ***American Nick's a slasher - not a very good one though

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  • TynkereTynkere Posts: 834
    edited January 2024

    Nice one.  Need to do more in B&W.  Also need better fonts.  Where did you get the ones used in your movie poster?

    Anyway, by coincidence, been having technical/hardware issues, so I did a satire aimed at a certain tech company.  

    Drivers Needed by Miles Milano

    What the critics are saying:

    “Miles writes an action packed tour-de-farce.”  -- New York Times

    “Miles does it again.  Thrill a minute page turner...”  -- Chicago Tribune

    “Guns. Mystery. Women in Nylons!  Motion picture potential...”   -- Los Angeles Times

    “A good cure for insomnia...”  -- Kirkus Reviews

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  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited August 2024

    Hurrah, a book cover !

    :happy dance:

    All my non-standard fonts are free ones usually from, I think, either 1001fonts.com  or dafont.com, and one of those font-finder sites tells me that what I used in the poster is Sofachrome Regular by Typodermic.

    Here's a shortlist of some free fonts I know I've got, most likely from 1001fonts:

    (Edit: links added to list below. All except Foucault available at 1001fonts)

    Sci-fi: Android Insomnia, Lazenby Computer, Liquid, Neurochrome, Space Age, 
    Classic: Celtic Hand, Cloister Black, JSL Blackletter, Foucault, Reynold, 
    Unusual: Elfic Caslin, Lovecrafts Diary, Wizard Speak,
    Miscellaneous: Kirjainkone, Psychedelia HM, Vtks Desgaste, Creepster. Liquidism

     

      Minya Nouvelle - 20 Mar 2024 - the one I used for the "Kachikety-Boom...Gajugata-jugata-jugata" on the back cover of "A Graphic Novel Without Pictures"

     Ombudsman Alternate - 17 Apr 2024 - a stencil font often comes in handy - a few years ago I was useing Stencil Cargo Army, but something odd's happening when I try to open the TTF/OTF freshly downloaded from 1001fonts/DaFont... (In fact I think the font I was using a few years ago was just called 'Stencil')

     SofaChrome - 18 Apr 2024  as mentioned in the first line of this post

     

    There's a number of good free fonts for book covers mentioned in the second post of Philebus "Pulped Fiction" tutorial here Pulped Fiction - Daz 3D Forums - plus of course it's an excellent guide for creating your own classic pulp covers.

    Another one I used for poker chips was a font called, I think, Broadway (or Broadway Regular) - but it's not on my laptop any more and I can't find it...

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  • TynkereTynkere Posts: 834

    Thanks for the tip.  Registered & just finished trying a couple their fonts.  Seem to work fine on aging versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. 

    Mildly amusing (to me at least) was 1001 font's User-Name robot.  I am "Tyke" -- apparently auto-corrected from Tynkere.  Who cares though.   Call me what they want if free content.  ;) 

    Best wishes & have a good 2024

     

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited August 2024

    Not exactly a book cover, but... well... who's checking...

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  • SofaCitizenSofaCitizen Posts: 1,940

    3dcheapskate said:

    Not exactly a book cover, but... well... who's checking...

    Sorry, I had the thread starred and meant to comtribute earlier in the year but forgot :(  I'll try an come up with a book or magazine cover to contribute soon.

    Nice work on this one tho - makes me want to play Dungeon Keeper again now!

  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited August 2024

    Dungeon Keeper !

    Ah, yes... I wasted many, many hours playing that... many, many years ago...devil

     

    Anyway, just to do something useful with this post - I found some printouts of all the extra free fonts that I added to GIMP, of which I've attached photos to this post.
    The first two sheets are the Khmer and Klingon fonts that I had. None of these were from the standard places I mentioned before so I'll try and find links to them if anybody's interested.
    The others are what I classified as symbol, miscellaneous, historic, scifi and handwriting - I think these were all from the standard free font sources mentioned previously and many/most I've already listed. Once again I'll try to find download links for any ones not already listed.

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  • 3dcheapskate3dcheapskate Posts: 2,720
    edited January 16

    Well 2024 didn't end up being much fun either, so let's hope 2025 is an improvement - we're not really off to a good start though, are we ?

    STICK NO BILLS HERE EITHER
    (aka reserved space for a picture - this is the Art Studio forum after all)

    Here's a brand new post for the new year, a couple of weeks late but who's counting, for 2025 names and titles.

    Onward and upward with the meat of this post (not to be confused with toast) - may gradually accumulate over 2025. Or may not.

    Book titles for 2025:

    Not a particularly good start - just a single volume.

    • The Three Handed Monkey
    •  

    Character names for 2025:

    • Thaddeus Filament     ...(co-inventor of the heavy bulb, apparently)
    • Jomski the Gnome
    • Erroneous Transcription    ...I think he was a medieval scribe ?
    • Syd Arter     ...sounds familiar - I think he's already been mentioned ?
    • Liberty Gusset     ...sounds familiar - I think she's already been mentioned ?
    •  
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