Trump Street
... that Trump is directly connected to Russia?Source: Any London Street map, or Google Maps, also mentioned here
- Comment: The hook plays on the tendency in US English to drop the "street" qualifiers (cf: Haight-Ashbury) to be grammatically correct.
Created by Edwardx (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Ritchie333 (talk) at 14:20, 9 January 2018 (UTC).
- I tried to think of something like ... that Trump's path to King runs through Russia, but I couldn't make it work and anyway there's no way to top the original hook. I bow down to its author. When it appears, beware of fools looking for excuses to pull it. EEng 18:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- I remember an Arbcom case that resulted from a “joke” about Trump. I would ask the nominator to rethink this. Mr Ernie (talk) 18:54, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Wow! That was fast! EEng 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- "In authoritarian countries, creators of artworks may remove material that their government might find controversial". Is that what we've been reduced to? —David Eppstein (talk) 20:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Wow! That was fast! EEng 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
For the faint of heart, or those thinking of ArbCom, or whatever, I'll offer:
- ALT 1 ... that Trump Street is directly connected to Russia Row?
- It's still funny this way, and all I did was un-pipe the links. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Wait! I've got it!
- With any luck we'll get our own tweet: "Failing Wikipedia, with its fake news..." Not a big problem, but some of the stuff at the end is sourced to non-RS websites and probably needs to go. Ritchie333, have you a preference? If so I suggest you strike the other two, and if your choice isn't ALT0 ping the reviewer for a new tick. EEng 20:33, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Go with ALT2, I think Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:08, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Before we ping the reviewer back, can Philafrenzy modify the Digimap ref to spell out a specific map that gives the hook information (adjacency of other two streets, direction of travel)? There must be a map number or something that can be added to the cite. EEng 21:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Done. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Before we ping the reviewer back, can Philafrenzy modify the Digimap ref to spell out a specific map that gives the hook information (adjacency of other two streets, direction of travel)? There must be a map number or something that can be added to the cite. EEng 21:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Go with ALT2, I think Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:08, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- ALT 3 ... that Trump Street leads one way to Russia Row? (It's a one-way street in that direction since around 2000 as confirmed by modern maps and Google street view. Used to run in the opposite direction.) Philafrenzy (talk) 22:44, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- ALT 4 ... that Trump Street leads directly to Russia Row? Philafrenzy (talk) 00:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- Both are the same level of humor-adjacent (i.e. not actually humorous) as ALT1. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- Possibly but I am not sure we should be truncating it just to "Trump" and "Russia". We are supposed to be politically neutral. Given in full it is a valid standard hook that allows the reader to have their own "Aha" moment. Certainly Russia Row should be in full in any case. Philafrenzy (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- Both are the same level of humor-adjacent (i.e. not actually humorous) as ALT1. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)