# MPSIMS name change? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 20, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203 "2009-01-20T20:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/81 "2009-01-24T13:56:09Z")
Keep the name. There have always been threads that were very obviously neither mundane nor pointless. Many of them have been some of the most visited threads (Tokyo Player’s threads about Ian and Beta-chan come to mind). ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/82 "2009-01-24T18:24:31Z")
I like The Water Cooler. ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/83 "2009-01-25T10:45:57Z")
I agree with the OP, and have long thought the title is inappropriate given some of the forum’s content. I have no particular preference for a replacement, anything is fine if it doesn’t contain either of “mundane” or"pointless". ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/84 "2009-01-25T15:14:30Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > [GALLIMAUFRY](http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-gal1.htm)? > > If it was left in caps there could be a contest to fill out the acronym. Thank you, **SiX** – ignorance fought. In [_Buck Godot_](http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buck.html) the gigantic spacestation that serves as sort of a intergalactic UN for thousands of space-faring civilizations is named the Gallimaufry. I never tried looking up the word as I had merely assumed Phil Foglio had just made it up. Silly me. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/85 "2009-01-25T17:32:05Z")
For what it’s worth, I started one of the threads mentioned in the OP, and I didn’t care what the forum was called. It didn’t even occur to me, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/86 "2009-01-25T18:21:36Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > .. I never tried looking up the word as I had merely assumed Phil Foglio had just made it up. Silly me. I guess it’s a little too pretentious though. It’s getting outpaced by _water cooler_ for Og’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/87 "2009-01-25T21:11:03Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think “14 k of g in a f p d” killed everybody’s appetite for acronym contests. 😃 Holy mother of Og… I completely forgot about that… You just gave me an instant migraine. That was never solved, right? Like.. We came to the agreement that it was someone’s clever and evil attempt at trolling? A fool’s errand? Oh, and keep the MPSIMS… Sometimes I use it IRL. “Oh, yeah, I was rambling there, it was em, pee, sims.” People wonder and I don’t usually explain. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/88 "2009-01-25T21:14:39Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > That was never solved, right? Like.. We came to the agreement that it was someone’s clever and evil attempt at trolling? A fool’s errand? It’s never going to be solved conclusively, but I found “[14 k(ilos) of g(rass) in a F(ord) p(arked) d(owntown)](http://www.14kofginafpd.com/items.php?id=11)” the most plausible. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/89 "2009-01-25T21:31:05Z")
So \*\*Marley23 \*\*are you seeing any trends in this thread? Enough to make a more prominent thread in IMHO about a name change? It looks like a compromise that retained the \*\*MPSIMS \*\*but changed the \*\*MP \*\*portion to other words would satisfy nearly everyone that has commented. The \*\*Miscellaneous/Personal \*\*pair is one such change from **Mundane Pointless** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/90 "2009-01-25T22:00:51Z")
The mods did talk about it earlier in the week. Everybody who weighed in preferred to keep the name the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/91 "2009-01-25T22:03:05Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The mods did talk about it earlier in the week. Everybody who weighed in preferred to keep the name the way it is. Well if that is true it seems like you might as well close this thread as we are just spinning our wheels. (I hope that doesn’t come out Jr modding, I am just suggesting.) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/92 "2009-01-25T23:01:10Z")
I like **Randy Seltzer** ’s idea. Plus it really is delicious irony. Most of us have forgotten, I think, just how cute we found the whole thing when we first heard it. It’s a little old to all of us now, but it will be good for a chuckle for every new Doper. Let’s not lose any chuckles. This world is hard enough as it is. > [@Carol Stream](#): > > I don’t care what the name of the forum is, but can posters stop putting MPSIMS crap in the Pit? Please? Bonus if the mods could bother to move threads (and/or) warn habitual abusers. You know, I used to care a lot about that too. Then I discovered meditation, switched meds, and found a purpose to my life, and I must say I’m a lot happier now. YMMV. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/93 "2009-01-26T04:57:37Z")
Late as usual, but I vote for no change… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/94 "2009-01-26T13:50:23Z")
I vote for no change- I like community history. It doesn’t take much for me to understand that no one thinks the loss of a loved or the such is mundane or pointless, it’s just a forum name based on a long history of the board. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/95 "2009-01-26T19:56:25Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > SIMS. A nod to tradition, another to reality. Not to mention, trademark litigation. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/96 "2009-01-27T12:54:54Z")
I can get behind either **Miscellaneous Personal Stuff I Must Share** or just **Stuff I Must Share.** ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/97 "2009-01-27T13:18:13Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > We honestly don’t have that many compared to the more lighthearted stuff. The whole point of MPSIMS is that it’s a mix. If we had a whole forum just for births, deaths, illnesses and engagements it wouldn’t get that much activity. It would have more activity than The Barn House or any SDMB Chicago forum. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/98 "2009-01-27T14:17:51Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > It would have more activity than The Barn House or any SDMB Chicago forum. …which has what to do with what? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/99 "2009-01-27T14:32:32Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > …which has what to do with what? Well, you seemed to be suggesting that if a forum did not get much activity there would be little point in having it. Is that not accurate? **Hi Neighbor** is merely pointing out that there are other forums that do not get much activity, and no one is getting rid of them. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203/100 "2009-01-27T14:49:01Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Well, you seemed to be suggesting that if a forum did not get much activity there would be little point in having it. Is that not accurate? > > **Hi Neighbor** is merely pointing out that there are other forums that do not get much activity, and no one is getting rid of them. And I’d say, again, that this has nothing to do with anything. We were talking about changing the name of a forum, then someone suggested adding one - not getting rid of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-name-change/482203.md?page=6)