Okay, we will all buy you a beverage of your choice at some point. Your kidneys and/or liver may file a restraining order against you, but again with the thank you. It’s a no harm-no foul in reality, nothing to be apologized for.
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All of those are taken. While thisisntevenourfinal.space might be cumbersome, if nothing else it motivates us to find something else quickly.
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Sure you want to inform them that we’re starting our own site? You could just park the domain and let it expire.
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I agree that caution may be warranted… but then again, the Owl was the one who suggested it in the first place, how can be blame us for going through with it? insert shrug gif here
For some reason, “the Waywards’ Refuge” popped into my head last night. It could either stand as is, or be modified (“the Wayward [Mutants’] Refuge.”) It’s probably too fancy and too long for the site, but I thought I’d throw it in there.
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It’s not that I’m afraid of their wrath; it’s just kind of an awkward way to make it known to them.
Announcing that we’ve abducted Jackhammer Jill and are holding her for ransom would be my vote — “Hey, we started our own site, but don’t worry it’s all in good fun.”
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Neil Patrick Harris, Danny Glover, Nicolas Cage
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I seem to remember him saying something along the lines of “if you don’t like the way we run the site why don’t you go off and start your own.” I can’t remember where he said it and Search isn’t helping me find it.
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I was really hoping you remembered him saying “if you don’t like the way we run this site, go start your own happy mutant site…” 
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It was in lounge welcome thread. I can thaw the archive and find the quote… I’ll have to retype it by hand, however.
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An argument worthy, in its disingenuousness, of the Petulant Owl himself.
Kudos 
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One of the authors popped into a PM thread to say hi, so they got invited here. While the others may not be aware of it at this point, some will probably think it amusing (Cory) or befuddling.
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Um, was that a compliment??? 
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I shudder to imagine the utter dragging we would get if we trademark smacked fans for having the term in a domain – it’s not even a registered trademark!? I’ll ask
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Absolutely.
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I’ve been trying to come up with a not-too-specific term suggesting the wide range of topics we hope to encourage here. Musings follow.
One model that comes to mind is the salons of 17th-18th century France.
Salon.com, of course, is too well-known to use the word, but perhaps we could refer to one of the famous salons of the era, such as the Hôtel de Rambouillet.
Alternatively, one of the terms used to refer to these salons was “ruelle”.
Ruelle, literally meaning “narrow street” or “lane”, designates the space between a bed and the wall in a bedroom; it was used commonly to designate the gatherings of the “précieuses”, the intellectual and literary circles that formed around women in the first half of the 17th century.
Ruelle.net is free. (Ruelle also appears in the Ruelle–Perron–Frobenius operator, which should please the math geeks among us.)
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Continuing from my last post, to keep it to one suggestion per reply,
Thinking of salons led me to the 17th-18th century English coffeehouses.
The description is perfect:
Topics discussed included politics and political scandals, daily gossip, fashion, current events, and debates surrounding philosophy and the natural sciences. Historians often associate English coffeehouses, during the 17th and 18th centuries, with the intellectual and cultural history of the Age of Enlightenment: they were an alternate sphere, supplementary to the university. Political groups frequently used coffeehouses as meeting places.
Reading down, I saw that Oxford coffeehouses were known as “penny universities”, and I thought “Aha”, but there are too many sites already using the phrase. Maybe we should bump it up to “nickel university” to allow for inflation. 
Old Slaughter’s Coffee House in London was a famous one, patronized by Samuel Johnson among others.
Oldslaughter’s.com is free, but that’s only one example, not necessarily the best.
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ClicketyClack.
- alliterative
- Prachett reference (I only sort-of know who that is, personally, but I know a lot of y’all like him)
- onomatopoeia (like the place we all migrated from, but different enough from that to not draw comparisons)
- sounds like typing/mouseclicks
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- don’t talk back
(hey, it’s close enough )
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More musings: I have always liked Newton’s famous quote
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
So I submit for your consideration SmoothPebbles.place (or .club or other extension of your choice).
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