The Jungle Gazette: Name the War Contest II (again)

UnOrthOdOx · September 30, 2002, 16:46

OK.

Name the war.

By this I mean the entire war, from our declaration on France down to the last stinking hole we drive the Persians from.

The American war, if it should happen, will be seperate.

Rules:

No Negative suggestions will be considered. I have never published a negative story about the Government or our decisions, despite my own feelings, and I am not about to start. So keep you 'great mistake' and 'needless violence' suggestions to yourself.

Top five candidates will be polled on.

All editors, past and present,(currently myself, Tassadar5000, Donal Graeme, and Shiber, may have another before this is done, though) will help me determine the top five.

This will be open for suggestions for 5 days, then we will choose five and poll.

Winners will recieve a collectors edition of our first issue. Stored in a sealed case, and specially processed to prevent deterioration. Comes with a certificate of authenticity. Estimated value: 300 Lyton

So come and claim a piece of Apolytonia's history!

GePap · September 30, 2002, 16:54

Are we to consider the Persian campaign to be separate from the War with France, or is this the final act of the war begun so long ago? That important point must be made.

If its all one War,as a name for thr whole war; then either: The Franco-Persian War, or the War of the First Coalition. For just the Persian part: The Eastern Front, the Great Eastern Push, The Drive East.

If the war with Persia is by itself: The Drive East (again), The Eastern War, the Blue-Gray war.

EDIT: sorry UnOrthOdOx for missing your point about it being just one war. My bad.

Vlad Antlerkov · September 30, 2002, 16:58

The Six Hundred Years' War (from when we declared war on France to when we make peace with Persia, give or take 50 years). If it goes on longer, the Seven Hundred Years' War, or simply the Long War.

civman2000 · September 30, 2002, 17:15

The Great War of Southern Abananaba Major

Reddawg · September 30, 2002, 17:17

The Hero's War
(because we got two great leaders in it... but I really like Vlad's idea).

Donal Graeme · September 30, 2002, 17:46

When did the war start? I am thinking that we can call it the War of (input date here). That would give us a single date to associate with the war, because the possibility of another long war is up in the air(you never know...)

Also, we can call this The Great Patriotic War. Or perhaps The Great Repulse War. Another possibility is the Tri-Partite War(not sure if I spelled that correctly). More ideas to come.

jdd2007 · September 30, 2002, 19:00

lets keep this simple, cuz NO ONE uses the great leap forward. i would say the persian annexation...

GhengisFarb™ · September 30, 2002, 19:19

The Great Cleansing

Arnelos · September 30, 2002, 19:44

hehe, I love Donal Graeme's suggestion of the Great Patriotic War... hehe

EDIT: How many people actually get that?

UnOrthOdOx · September 30, 2002, 19:52

War of the Wonders

adaMada · September 30, 2002, 19:53

"War of the Wonders"

-- adaMada

Apocalypse · September 30, 2002, 20:07

I was going to say War of Wonders

Vlad Antlerkov · September 30, 2002, 20:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Arnelos
hehe, I love Donal Graeme's suggestion of the Great Patriotic War... hehe

EDIT: How many people actually get that?

The Russian name for World War II? Yeppers.

I still think that, if we have another really long war (stretching over at least an entire term), we can call it the "Second Long War" or somesuch.

Donal Graeme · September 30, 2002, 20:57

War of the Wonders works for me! However, rather than saying War of the Wonders, maybe just War of Wonders... as in there were many more wonders than just the three we have now, like why the Germans bothered to declare war on us, and wondering what the Persians did with their army, and what France payed to get them on our side, etc.

GhengisFarb™ · September 30, 2002, 21:03

How about Wonders War One, or WWI, assuming we will take other civ's wonders later in WWII............

Nimitz · September 30, 2002, 21:06

The Great War or the War of French Oppression

Aro · September 30, 2002, 21:52

War of the Wonders is the best. In second, close, The Six Hundred Years' War.

ruby_maser · September 30, 2002, 23:15

well, being new to the democracy game, I'm gonna have to trust the history buffs and say if this war has really gone on for six hundred years, we go with "The 200000 Day War" (thats 364.25 x 600 and I'm rounding down) along the line of Vietnam's 30000 Day War which started with the French (ironically) and ended with the pull out of the US.

Donegeal · October 1, 2002, 02:34

War of Wonders sounds good, with the acronym of WWI, but lets go ahead and continue with this train of thought.

Why not World War I? IIRC, almost every nation in Upper Abananaba was involved in more then one war.

Apolytionia vs France, Germany and Persia
Greece vs Aztec and England
America vs Aztec and England

I don't remember if an Abananaba Minor country was involved in the Greco-American vs Anglo-Aztec war and I also remember something about a Germanic-Abananaba Minor war (might have just been discussion). In any case, all of Upper Abananaba was in major Strife. And seeing as Upper Abananaba probably has most of the land in the world, it could conceivably be called World War I.

History note: the entire world was NOT involved in WWI, just the major powers, and yet it was still called WWI (I know, it was called the Great War and The War to End All Wars)....

Hey there's an Idea... since we don't want to fight any more major wars for some time, why not The War to End All Wars? This would make the DIA happy I think

astrologix · October 1, 2002, 06:16

The Wonders War, yeaaaahhhhh !!

UnOrthOdOx · October 3, 2002, 09:42

This closes tomorrow, any more suggestions?

Torkkeli · October 3, 2002, 11:02

The war that never ends

Or

The never ending war

UnOrthOdOx · October 3, 2002, 11:44

Going over the suggestions:

Franco-Persian War
War of the First Coalition
The (Insert # of years) War
The Great War of Southern Abananaba Major
The Hero's War
The Great Patriotic War
The Great Repulse War
The Great Cleansing
War of the Wonders
Yeppers (was that a serious suggestion? with the

Im not sure...)
Wonders War (I) later wars II, III, IV...
The Great War
The War of French Oppression
The (insert # of Days) War
The War to End All Wars
The War that Never Ends/Never Ending War

DAVOUT · October 3, 2002, 11:47

The Way to Greatness.

You will appreciate the multiple meanings of way !

GhengisFarb™ · October 3, 2002, 11:55

Quote:

Originally posted by DAVOUT
The Way to Greatness.

You will appreciate the multiple meanings of way !

War of Expansion
War of Vengence
The Abananaba Basin War

UnOrthOdOx · October 3, 2002, 11:56

Quote:

Originally posted by DAVOUT
You will appreciate the multiple meanings of way !

If you mean what I think you mean, you have been paying ALLOT of attention to what I post around here...

ruby_maser · October 3, 2002, 13:52

the Banana Crusades or the Great Banana Crusade

jdd2007 · October 3, 2002, 17:39

didnt you see my 'persian annexation' suggestion? o well, no one will vote for it

GodKing · October 3, 2002, 18:32

The Persian Campaign

Proserpine · October 3, 2002, 18:48

The War of jdjdjd's . . . Ear?

IIRC jdjdjd was in France just before the war started. Wasn't he expelled for certain transgressions, which expulsion was cited as the proxima casus belli (along with other grievances) in the declaration of war.