Good morning Fixers!
I know it’s Monday and we’re all a little hungover tired and bleary but we here at ThereIFixedIt need your help. You see, you guys are apparently budding mad scientists and I hesitate to think what a freak lightning storm or improperly handled electric eels would produce. But it’s given rise to a problem. That of the Frankenstein category. It seems we need one. See the post below as an example.
But calling it the “Frankenstein” category is just too traditional for the likes of us. So chug that third espresso, discretely tilt your monitor away from your co-workers and start thinking of a great name for all the cobbled together kludges that are abominations against nature. Leave your submissions in the comment section and make sure to leave replies to any you find amusing.
On Friday, we’ll take the best of the best and put them in a poll for the Fixer community to vote on. Annnnnd…go!
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Unnatural ,monster, splicing genes together… How about Monsanto? – no wait that’s taken. How about Hybrid 0.1?
The Abominations category.
“Things that slapped Jesus in the FACE”
conglomeration + abomination =
conglomination
The Chimera Category
What about the ‘That just shouldn’t be!’ category?
Over Uglineered?
Kludgetastic, Frankenkludge, Not Found in Nature
How about JustNeedsANeckBolt catagory?
How about “Chimeras”?
Also, I second “Abominations”.
Skittlebrau
“Platypus” — started as an mole, finished as a duck.
FrankenKludge, Kludgegyver?
Mongrels
“Tab A, Slot Z”
1. MacGyver
2. TTGP (Thinning The Gene Pool)
3. Darwin Was Right
How about “Rube Goldberg”?
Bastardised (or bastardized if you are American)
What’s wrong with good old-fashioned “Heath Robinson contraption”?
The Devil’s discovery
I second Darwin Was Right.
Igor…Its alive!!!
Amalgamation
I second the “platypus”
How about:
Kludgineering
or:
Liger (half lion/half tiger – it’s a natural kludge, look it up!)
Frankenfix
I second Chimera and Amalgamation
I think a one word name is best, like Vombomb instead of Vomit Bomb
The Ugly Stick
Really? SERIOUSLY?!!
Doctor Jekyll or just plain Doctor (plastic surgery, anyone?). I second the suggestion for Igor.
I beleive we should call it the tragic mis-birth section.
Abomineering
I think Rube Goldberg is the best idea so far.
Seconded
I think its moving
Five thirds
Just plain unnatural
Things that shouldn’t be
Broke the mold
God has a sick mind (can be mother nature instead of god)
Drunk fixits (fix its that look like the person was drunk when they were made)
(PS: Ilove frankinchair)
I burst out laughing
Single Word Suggestions:
“Frankenvention”
“Innofuction” (didn’t know if you wanted me to use a “v” or an “f”, but it sounds the same either way)
“Malfuction” (did I forget the “n” again?)
“Kludgenstein”
“Weldenstein”
Multi-Word Suggestions:
“Outside The Box”
“Linear Family Trees”
“Too Smart For The Public Good”
“Square Pegs In Round Holes”
“That Ain’t Right”
“Darwin Award Nominees”
“Future Bleeders of America”
“Signs Of The Apocalypse”
“The End Is Near”
“Just Crazy Enough To Work”
Howsabout…uhm…Fixenstein? Or…
WHBSCBU *what has been seen cannot be unseen*
orrrr…
Failinstein…or Should Be Illegal?
Ooh! VICTIMS OF SCIENTOLOGY. XD
Pigorillamoosapotasuras…oh darn, that’s already taken by Nancy Pelosi.
@Thorswitch – Frankenkludge FTW!
I agree, Frankenstein is a bit overused but my dad used to build these… *things* and the whole family called them Frankenclones because usually his stuff would look sorta like what it was supposed to be but mostly like some kinda screwed up *something else* ugh, good luck finding a decent name! I’ll be along for the ride
P.S Daddy had pretty much only two rules:
1) if ya can’t fix it (ie; its not broken) improve it!
2) A: if it moves and shouldn’t–duct tape
B: if it won’t move and it should: WD40
monstrosity
monstrosities
leviathan
leviathan monstrosities
Durfunskin
Snicklefix
Fixn’giggle
I like TTGP (Thinning the Gene Pool) the best.
WWJM-what would jesus make?
liger-it’s a half lion half tiger
Everything AND the kitchen sink
american inventor?!?
what do you mean thats not a good name?
@Couch Commando
Has a nice ring
serious guess now:
crude contraptions
How about “That ain’t right”?
That’s usually what I say when I see most of the posts on this site, lol.
@Samantha
Ironically, those were two of the three tools Walt Kowalski gave Thao in Gran Tornio – duct tape, WD40 and Vise Grips. Walt (Clint Eastwood) said that with those 3 things, you can fix damn near anything in the house.
@Couch Commando
Dammit…came in here to suggest one and I LOVE THIS ONE.
Unholy Kludge
How about Igor’s Nightmares?
pre·ter·nat·u·ral (prtr-nchr-l, -nchrl)
adj.
1. Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural.
2. Surpassing the normal or usual; extraordinary: “Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel” (George F. Will).
3. Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
How ’bout “Franken-Gyver”
Unnatural progression?
how about “IT’S ALIVE!”
The “captain planet” category ( by our powers combined… )
voltron is too cool to consider.
“A-team material” or B team for that matter.
Mcgyver ain’t bad, but I think “mcgyver on paint thinner” more appropriate.
“it just wants to be loved”, like Frankenstein or any other monster.
Macgyver Was An Amateur
Leftovers
Abombi-Nation
Butterfung’ers
Chum is fum!
FooginBroken
Voltrons
The Meatloaf.
Transmechanized
Melange Mastery
I am a fan of “Abomineering”.
However, I also want to submit for consideration:
Concraption
Contraptionation
Over-Under-Engineered
Monstro-vention
And also, Frankenberry. Just because I like that stuff.
Hybridations?
Unholy conjunction
I like “JustNeedsANeckBolt” for originality
How about The Kludges of Dr. Moreau?
Frankenkludge
SLAGIATT
Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time.
“torqued out bindle rotor”
fubar
Brainchild
“The MacGyver Files”
WWRGD? – What Would Rube Goldberg Do?
McGyver’s off day
McGyver on acid
“Looks like I picked a bad day to give up drinking” (from the movie, Airplane”
how about McFrankengyverstein?
WTF
Underthought and Overengineered
I also like “Just needs a neck bolt”
I LIKE Frankenstein. FUBAR works too.
craptraptions
adapcraptions
The fire swamp.
Amalgabomination.
@Otto
I like Otto’s Abomineering
Abomineering is the most descriptive and rolls off the tongue the best.
Square pegs in round holes is my favorite so far
I’m a fan of WWRGD, but also would like to suggest a spinoff of all the macgyvers out there
“MacGyver’s Hotdog”
My faves are “Hybridation” and “Frankenkludge,” although “JustNeedsANeckBolt” has a certain poetry to it.
From a English major’s perspective, those things described are *physical portmanteaus* but that’s too much of a mouthful. I suppose you could call ‘em Pu-Pu Platters, but that’s a little too… poo.
“The rusty gene”
“The tree of trife”
“Taxonomy of improbable”
How about “Epic Kludge”?
i think thats great…
I’m partial to Chimera
Vivisection + Invention= Invisection, Vivention, or any other combo
I gotta say, I like Frankenstein as a category name. The images and themes evoked by the name “Frankenstein” describes the tagged kludges perfectly: it seemed like a good idea at the time, it came out horrible, and now, it’s going to whip round and kill its creator and possibly his entire family.
My vote’s for “Franken-Gyver” from Mud or a combo of john’s
Cluster-kraft
Frankenfixit
@Mud
Yes. This is clearly it.
Platygyver.
Interspecies fixes?
Platygyver.
He does?
WDITOT (pronounced “wi-dee-tot”. “Why Didn’t I Think Of That?”
Metamorphs?
@Mud
I LOVE the Franken-Gyver suggestion.
Or how about “You are NOT MacGyver”
Abomineering is my fav with JustNeedsANeckBolt in close second. Id also like to add: AggieEngineered and OxyMorons – Two things combined that dont make sense.
@Kenri That was going to be my suggestion, too.
recombinations?
The Fix-Its of Dr. Moreau?
FrankenFixes.
MeatballFixes?
or
wannabe Reincarnated?
Under Construction?
@Crispy
I think “looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue” would fit better.
Hodgepodge Mishmosh!
I vote abomineering and nominate
Bodge (Junkyard Wars term for making it work)
Bodgenstein
Graft
OSHAnator
Mergers & Hackquisitions
Amalgamated Fixes, LTD.
@John Q Private
Or even The Kludge-O-Matic
(for all you Gallagher fans)
MacGyveNots.
Cobbledegook
Tools 4 Tools
i like
1.abomineering
2.justneedsaneckbolt
wtf is too common in my opinion
Conjunction Junction
Conjunction Malfunction
Cornocrapia
“You are NOT MacGyver”
“MacGruber”
“So this is what crack makes you do!”
“Ducktape Can’t not fix this!”
“Please, less WD-40!”
@rhonda
more like Obamaneering
I’m thinking “Mephestos,” after the South Park character, or maybe “5-Assed Monkeys,” for his most epic creation.
Desperate Households?
Franken-Kludge
@glockninja I thought I found one awesome place on the internet without the constant f’d up political bashing. Thanks for pissing in the pool.
@Sean
I like Franken-Kludge!
What’s the problem with you people? Can’t you tell it’s Photoshopped? (not actually a category name suggestion- it’s just that every thereifixedit comment section has some lunatic saying that so I just figured I’d beat them to it)
I liked:
uglineered
meatloaf
WWRGD (What Would Rube Goldberg Do?)
Fix yoU Could Consider Kool (FUCCK)
“The 7 P’s” – Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
Give My Creation Life!
“If it Ain’t broke, fix it”
“Generation Duct Tape”
“What’s a tool?”
Enigmatic Engineering
what bout
(mashed & machine -) mashines
or
franken-design & co.
@SewerPickle (Lance L) “The Meatloaf”
CONTEST OVER. WIN.
@ Chris @glockninja” I thought I found one awesome place on the internet without the constant f’d up political bashing. Thanks for pissing in the pool.”
Second that.
TWTB-Thinking without the box
Creative reverse engineering
DAN-Darwin Award Nominee
RGBLC-Rube Goldberg’s bastard love child
OBRI-Only Babies read the instructions
cludge
How’s about… a Ripley?
Allow me to explain (from the synopsis of Alien Resurrection on JamesBowman.net):
“In one scene, Ripley leads her little band of smugglers and criminals into the room where the scientists keep their “cryo-tubes” containing the monstrous outcomes of their unspecified experiments. Looking like foetuses in various stages of development, they are meant to be seen as horrible mutants. One is alive and in terrible pain. It whispers to Ripley, “Kill me!” Ripley takes her flame-thrower and incinerates her. Then she incinerates all the rest of the mutants in their tubes.”
Thereshefixedit.
I would like to think nothing is new, and that everything here is pieced together my vote is for:
Piecers
although I do like craptraptions
A few suggestions:
regression of evolution
hodgepodge
engineering at its finest
what did you go to school for?
just sayin
Yeah thats all I have for now, I’m sure I’ll think of a few more.
@WalkleyBlade
No more cough syrup for you!
This is the internet after all, every site has extreamist on both sides, i just couldnt help but notice abomonation and obamanation sounded to close to not point out
“Frankenfix”
@Runolfr And even though I did a text search for it, I didn’t find that someone else already had that one.
@Herby
Sorry, Herby (do you pronounce that ‘erby, btw?)- we in the UK don’t get cough syrup with awesome side effects like you dudes do. I’ve seen what that stuff can DO!! (South Park, Sarah Silverman, and, yes, I know they’re fiction, but hey). My post was just the product of my warped little brain all on its ownsome.
How ’bout “with a little help from Igor”?
I like “Abomineering.”
a teletubby/robocop lovechild is my sugestion
Klorvesstein
@Glock Ninja Well, sorry to go off if the intention was just a pun. It’s just nice to have a break from the gutter brawl that invades every other space.
How about KludgerF@cks?
So far, I’m all for Abomineering.
Here’s a few from me, sorry if they’ve been mentioned before…
Double-You-Tee-Eff
Double-takes
Evil Genius Jr.
work-in-progress
clusterFix
How about:
“(dis)honorable mentions”
“No, just no.”
I don’t like “JustNeedsANeckBolt” because somehow it feels too much like something slashdot would’ve used if they’d thought of it.
I also like “Abomineering” and “SLAGIATT”.
How about good old-fashioned WTF?
Call it something with from Chernobyl/Tsjernobyl (dutch)
Or: Greetings from Чернобыль(Chernobyl)
Or something with mutated origins
@Gerbennjoh
Or the spare parts bin/creation
MY nomination for the Frankenstien catagory is ” The Rube Goldberg Connundrum” .
I nominate “The Rube Goldberg Conundrum” for the frankenstien catagory… it fits! LOL
Mutatoes
@jyawn
ClusterFix does have a nice ring to it.
steampunk’d!
Heh, I like Clusterfix too.
Overimagineering?
Katamari
Nothing about Rube Goldberg works. His inventions were long complicated processes that solved a aimple problem with a long drawn out process. He would have 15 steps to screw in a lightbulb, but he never made horribly scary contraptions that have a tendency to kill. This is my way of saying I am ok with anything as long as there is no mention of Rube, or cuss words
lets just call them “ligers”
or “tigons”
kludge freaks
I like that one.
Also, “Future Darwin Award Winner” (although I’m not sure it fits well)
How’s about “Igorisms”?
If it hasn’t already been suggested, Kludge Goldberg. Or Rube Kludgeberg. Sorry if I’m repeating someone, but I didn’t want to read through all 174 comments. Cheers!
I vote for abomineering or bubbaneering
I like Bubba-neering or Shade-tree Engineering.
@WalkleyBlade
I do like “Ripley”
When you see it, you feel like ur in a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
We Todd Did. I know overused.
to modify another suggestion:
Darwingineered
From the Frankenstein genre, remember “A B Normal”
…A B Normal from Young Frankenstein
Part 4 7:25
and
Part 6 4:25
Smash-up Mash-up
Bonus points for Katamari (a japanese word that means a wad of whatever; Katamari Damacy means The (Team) Spirit of the Wad (of things), roughly).
clusterFix works too; I hope we’ll get to vote on the options when we hit critical mass for suggestions to vote upon
Mr. Potato Head
Spare Parts Mosaic
Cattywampus
I Had Some Spare Parts, So …
Look What I Can Do!
It came from outer space!
Kludgenstein
(Sorry if its been suggested, if it has i second it!)
I think the catagory should be “straight from the factory”
The Chimera category
Abomineering is AMAZIN’. THE BEST!!!
@Otto
I like those ideas, Otto…
My favorite 2 have to be conCRAPTION and Over-Under-Engineered
I agree!
Off the top of the cortex…
The Kludgetorium
The Splice Factory
Tab A in slot Q
Cringineering
Look Ma, no brains!
i call it: the Joan Rivers
Probably way too late on this but, other than Abomineering, I’m quite partial to Maniacal Bodgery.
“Live and Let Die”
This! FTW!!
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There’s already a word for these: Chimera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)
Yeth Marthter
Abby-normal
What happens when I do this?
One good lightning bolt
It’s alive!
Igor calling
Turducken
That’s not a labradoodle
Yeth, Marthter
Abby-normal
What happens when I do this?
One good lightning bolt
It’s alive!
Turducken
That’s not a labradoodle
What…just…Happened?
we always keep track of our family tree because it is exciting to know the family tree ;”,