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It's time to freshen up the PF Lounge title! We need your help! Suggest a clever and fun name to replace the "PF Lounge" category name. Vote by using the "Like" link. PF has final say.

example:

"Event Horizon Cantina" or "The Star Dust Watering Hole"
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
It's time to freshen up the PF Lounge title! We need your help! Suggest a clever and fun name to replace the "PF Lounge" category name. Vote by using the "Like" link. PF has final say.

example:

"Event Horizon Cantina" or "The Star Dust Watering Hole"
Josephson's Junction
 
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Wrichik Basu said:
I propose the name "PF Discussions Observatory".
Ground State
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
It's time to freshen up the PF Lounge title!
What?? You mean these things are on a schedule!?? :oldsurprised:
 
Vanadium 50 said:
The [itex]\hbar[/itex].
I have seen this being used before. Let me recall... Yes, Physics Stack Exchange has a chat room named "The [itex]\hbar[/itex]". (I was a member in that site before I joined PF.)
 
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I vote to keep it PF Lounge.

It's a relaxed forum where can just lean back, shoot the breeze, and not think too hard. Just like a real-world lounge. :wink:
 
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I absolutely agree w/ Tom. PF Lounge is exactly what it is. Are we going off here into the modern American methodology of "it ain't broke, but let's fix it anyway" ?
 
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Tom.G said:
I vote to keep it PF Lounge.

It's a relaxed forum where can just lean back, shoot the breeze, and not think too hard. Just like a real-world lounge. :wink:

phinds said:
I absolutely agree w/ Tom. PF Lounge is exactly what it is. Are we going off here into the modern American methodology of "it ain't broke, but let's fix it anyway" ?

The category will stay how it is, but maybe we can be creative in its name. I refuse to believe I lazily came up with the best name possible :biggrin:
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
The category will stay how it is, but maybe we can be creative in its name. I refuse to believe I lazily came up with the best name possible :biggrin:
Well, it might have been beginner's luck, but you did, dammit. Leave it alone :smile:
 
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phinds said:
Well, it might have been beginner's luck, but you did, dammit. Leave it alone :smile:
Even if you like the word lounge, we don't need to keep it a boring "PF Lounge". We can come up with something like "The Particle Zoo Lounge" :biggrin:
 
"A Physicist walks into the Forum Lounge..."

(kind of long, but humorous...) :smile: Guess we need something more general than "Physicist", though...
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
"Event Horizon Cantina"

I like the analogy between the event horizon of a black hole and our general discussion board because until very recently, scientists believed that no useful information could come out of either of them!
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Perhaps we can keep the word "Lounge" in the title but can we make it a little more creative?
jack action said:
If we have to go the same but different, this is the way I always read it:

Pff! Lounge

I will conditionally go with the suggestion from @jack action . The condition being that: only if the powers that be insist on asserting their power to make a change.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
The Particle Zoo, The Double Slit Cinema, The Quark Pit, Schrödinger's Saloon
Hey, you left out the best one --- "PF Lounge" !
 
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phinds said:
Hey, you left out the best one --- "PF Lounge" !
Facebook's motto is "move fast and break things". PF's motto is "break things because it annoying phinds" :biggrin:
 
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