Hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Three things to talk about this mornin':
1.) As you may have noticed, there wasn't a Sheldon Sunday strip this weekend: That was the first day in six years the site didn't have a new strip up...I hope you'll forgive me the day off once every six years. Next up: 2016! :)
2.) Next, THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER: Check out the mockup of the Emperor's ship La Invencible that Drive reader* Robert Maxwell created. I can't stop smiling when I watch it...he got it just perfect:
3.) In typing out the above, I realize we don't have a reader nickname for "Drive" readers...and that can not be allowed to stand! Someone long ago suggested "Sheldonistas" for Sheldon readers, and that one seemed to stick. So let's hear it: What are your best name suggestions for Drive readers?
I'm not arguing that "drivers" isn't a good and solidly logical choice. But just to be different, since the drive is both the reason and theme of the strip, and takes a shape so distinctive that the name of the shape is used as another name for the drive, well, "ringers" rather amuses me.
Glad all is okay, Dave. No sweat missing a day in 6 years, but since you are normally as regular as the atomic clock at WWV, we worry when a strip goes missing. It's because we care.
You're a victim of your own reliability, I guess. ;-)
Hmmmm.... "Drivers" is surely the obvious answer... but I think Dave is the "Driver" because he is taking us on the journey through these characters lives. My suggestion, therefore, is "Passengers". Please consider.
Yeah, second all that. "Drivers" is the first thing that comes to mind, and it works great. Also, yeah - when a very very regular comic like this one here fails to update just once I'm more curious about the why than frustrated ;)
Hmmmm.... 'Drivers' is surely the obvious answer... but I think Dave is the 'Driver' because he is taking us on the journey through these characters lives. My suggestion, therefore, is 'Passengers'. Please consider.
"Big Happy Fleetmates", in reference to http://www.sheldoncomics.com/drive/100327.html. Or "Pinchers". Just for the sake of confusing everyone and having options.
"Drivers" and "The Driven" sound too bland to me. It should be something unique and searchable; search for "the driven" on the web and it's unlikely that Drive will ever be the first result :)
So how about:
- Drivenauts
- Machitonauts
- Singringers (singularity ring)
- Empujefilos (loose Spanish for "Drive-o-philes") ;)
I was mostly coming by to say don't choose "Drivers," but I seem to be in the minority opinion there. Drivers is just a bit too obvious and it's also really boring. I do kind of like "The Driven" though. It definitely requires that "The" in front of it, but as a two word phrase it works nicely, even if it does sound a bit culty.
I'm not sure "Drivers" is the best choice, but it's certainly better than "Drivees" or "Drivanoids," and "Driven" sounds too passive. I mean, would you rather be someone who drives, or someone who's driven?
On another note, though, was I the only person hearing the Imperial Theme from the opening of Star Wars IV in the back of my head while watching that very nicely rendered ship fly by?
OK all -
What about "drovers" as in "Drovers for Drive"? the original word means a herder of sheep or cattle ...
We also have Louis Prima to thank for idea that we could be "The Witnesses" (... to the story, the accident, the court case, whatever).
... which can lead us to "The Back Seat Drivers" (which I kinda particularly like). We can shorten it to The Backseaters or The Seaters, but you get the idea.
And, for "Driven" fans, what about Drivenistas? We are subversives, after all, loyal in our own ways to Dave and his creations.
-LIC
Change of topic... while I was a kid, my family took a trip down to the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Mexico. Our Mexican tour guide at the ruins told us it was the WINNERS of the ball game who were sacrificed, not the losers as many people think. The winners were superior to the losers, and thus made a worthier sacrifice to the gods. And the players actually -- get this -- played to WIN, because being sacrificed was considered a great honor.
Of course, English wasn't our tour guide's first language. But he even scoffed at the idea of sacrificing the losers, so this wasn't a lost-in-translation moment or something.
Oh, and DEFINITELY "Drivers." I have no doubt there will be some very clever alternatives thrown around, but given the number of people who came up with "Drivers" on their own so quickly, that tells me it's the name people will naturally gravitate to anyway.
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