UPSB v3

Philosophy / Pen spinning

Informal name?

  1. Glamouraz
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 11:28:16

    I think that to call what we do as pen spinning is kinda informal. I mean, other stuff has proper names like table tennis.

    Informal name: Ping-pong
    Formal name: Table tennis.

    Imagine.. someone asks you.. What's your hobby.. and you say: Pen spinning..

    They'll be thinking that you mean doing the TA or the charge and they'll think you have no life but then again.. it's because they don't know about this like they might know about soccer and basketball etc..

    What do you think?

  2. daffy
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 11:42:21

    thats actually happened to me before sad.gif
    i cant figure out what a good formal name would be though huh.gif
    but i love the idea

  3. Rorix
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 11:51:58

    If you're calling 'pen spinning' informal then how would a more formal name make you seem like you have more of a life? It'd probably make it seem more foreign to someone who hasn't heard of it.

  4. WhiteFang
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 12:11:34

    don't worry. pen spinning sounds more formal than yo-yoing

  5. kazeikan
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 12:56:29

    informal=pen spinning
    formal=WCPD [ what cool people do ] xD

  6. Glamouraz
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 13:00:28

    Hm.. I guess you're right then..

    What's WCPD?

  7. kazeikan
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 13:12:42

    lol sorry if i didnt make it clear:
    W = what
    C = cool
    P = people
    D = do

    xD simple?

  8. Tialys
    Date: Mon, Sep 29 2008 19:16:05

    formal: pen spinning
    informal: spinning, PS, etc.

  9. shoeman6
    Date: Tue, Sep 30 2008 02:28:08

    formal = Pen manipulation? Penmawashi? soemthing like that?

  10. Rai289
    Date: Wed, Oct 1 2008 07:05:48

    Pen spinning is just blatantly stating what you do. Table tennis is basically tennis on a table and pen spinning is when you spin a pen.There's nothing wrong with that. Besides, you wouldn't exactly call it TUMOSAP... That stands for:

    T = The
    U = Unique
    M = Motion
    O = Of
    S = Spinning
    A = A
    P = Pen

    That would be a mouthful and chances are, they would probably fall asleep halfway through explaining it...

  11. kazeikan
    Date: Wed, Oct 1 2008 07:44:26

    wel if you say it table tennis = tennis on table
    so then pen spinning = spinning a pen

    so we dont need one

  12. Chinese
    Date: Wed, Oct 1 2008 20:20:06

    "Object manipulation", then you say "Pens mainly" biggrin.gif

  13. shoeman6
    Date: Wed, Oct 1 2008 21:52:22

    QUOTE (Rai289 @ Oct 1 2008, 02:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Pen spinning is just blatantly stating what you do. Table tennis is basically tennis on a table and pen spinning is when you spin a pen.There's nothing wrong with that. Besides, you wouldn't exactly call it TUMOSAP... That stands for:

    T = The
    U = Unique
    M = Motion
    O = Of
    S = Spinning
    A = A
    P = Pen

    That would be a mouthful and chances are, they would probably fall asleep halfway through explaining it...

    Thats not a bad idea.... But it should be shortened to TUMSP <--- =]

  14. Sfsr
    Date: Sun, Oct 5 2008 19:38:50

    QUOTE (shoeman6 @ Oct 1 2008, 11:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Thats not a bad idea.... But it should be shortened to TUMSP <--- =]

    He said it was a bad idea.

  15. TurbulentTurtle
    Date: Wed, Oct 8 2008 01:27:46

    You could probably just say pen manipulations.

  16. Glamouraz
    Date: Fri, Oct 10 2008 08:49:34

    Yea i think pen manupilation sounds good.

  17. Mystic
    Date: Fri, Oct 10 2008 21:55:03

    Pen Spinning

    That's it. There's nothing wrong with it.

  18. Fripâ„¢
    Date: Sat, Oct 11 2008 01:17:52

    Do you want it to be stick manipulation?

  19. sangara
    Date: Sat, Oct 11 2008 02:31:11

    QUOTE (shoeman6 @ Sep 29 2008, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Penmawashi?



    that is penspinning...

  20. Glamouraz
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 13:04:33

    Stick manupilations is.. is..

    Just weird..

    Hi! I'm now gonna tell you about my hobby. It's stick manupilations! Lolwut?!

    Or..

    Hey, my favourite hobby is object manupilations. Pen spinning.. to be exact.

    I think the latter sounds nicer.

  21. Mightyboy
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 15:04:26

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourish_(disambiguation)

    A flourish is a stage magic term for a visual display of skill.

    Pen flourishing den. Sounds pretty classic. o_O

  22. Rai289
    Date: Sun, Oct 19 2008 07:30:35

    Stick manipulation... sitting in front of the computer in nothing but you're tighty whities saying up... down... eeek.gif

  23. Glamouraz
    Date: Wed, Oct 22 2008 14:05:37

    How's rod twirling?

    Anyone for rod twirling?

    Twirling sounds like those dancers with long ribbons lol.

  24. Wolfhunt
    Date: Wed, Oct 22 2008 22:06:53

    QUOTE (Glamouraz @ Oct 22 2008, 06:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    How's rod twirling?

    Anyone for rod twirling?

    Twirling sounds like those dancers with long ribbons lol.


    no, if we all started calling what we do twiling we would be mocked like crazy

  25. daffy
    Date: Thu, Oct 23 2008 00:37:57

    @wolfhunt. +1

    teacher: Ari, what are you doing?!
    Me: rod twirling wink.gif

    that wuld suck tongue.gif

  26. Shadowserpant
    Date: Thu, Oct 23 2008 00:39:55

    LOL rod twirling sounds so gay
    not just the twirling... the rod too
    xDD

  27. kazeikan
    Date: Thu, Oct 23 2008 08:11:28

    pen aerobics

  28. Resonance
    Date: Thu, Oct 23 2008 19:53:32

    I guess you could just say you're doing manipulations with various objects, and your specialty is pens... or something along these lines.
    Dunno.

  29. Glamouraz
    Date: Fri, Oct 31 2008 16:24:18

    Then what is it called?

  30. GabGaab
    Date: Fri, Oct 31 2008 22:11:57

    Pentricks > Pen Spinning

  31. Glamouraz
    Date: Tue, Nov 4 2008 12:26:36

    pentrix?

    no no.. kam will kill us.

    Stick manipulation?

  32. Ralys
    Date: Tue, Nov 4 2008 12:39:41

    Why not just take a pen out of your pocket, start doing your stuff shouting PEN SPINNING!!!?

  33. Nzo
    Date: Sat, Jan 17 2009 15:27:54

    lool rod twirling sounds like a pen spinner from hogwartz or something.

    i always thought something like "pen manipulation jutsu" so its kinda grouped with marital arts =D. and does any1 know how to actually say that all in japanese?

  34. minche
    Date: Fri, Jan 23 2009 11:14:18

    QUOTE (Shadowserpant @ Oct 23 2008, 01:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    LOL rod twirling sounds so gay
    not just the twirling... the rod too
    xDD


    yeah, laugh.gif

    and what's wrong with pen spinning
    okay, it's not exactly just "spinning", but if you call it manipulation then you could call writing with a pen a manipulation too O_o
    and if you want to be to exact then it takes too long to explain...
    so it's just pen spinning (informal: psing, spinning...)

  35. Jaron
    Date: Tue, Jan 27 2009 20:23:59

    I personality think pen spinning or pen manipulation is good enough.

  36. Tekkai
    Date: Tue, Jan 27 2009 22:51:20

    Contact juggling with pens. That is technically what penspinning is. You could probably word it better, but that's the idea.

  37. Mystic
    Date: Wed, Jan 28 2009 20:37:52

    Pen Juggling

    But it's not that different from pen spinning... not that there's anything wrong with it to begin with...

  38. H2FLO
    Date: Thu, Jan 29 2009 00:46:17

    i agree w/ mystic. after all this, i'm still gonna call it pen spinning...

  39. Antonio Garcia
    Date: Sat, Jan 31 2009 14:32:17

    pen twirling lol laugh.gif

  40. Loanshark
    Date: Wed, Feb 11 2009 17:18:39

    The Art of Deftly Maneuvering A Writing Utencil Through One's Fingers Quickly and Smoothly


    imo, Pen Spinning is better ><


    goddamn euphemisms

  41. mssuxsoup
    Date: Wed, Feb 11 2009 21:56:58

    lol scince teacher: QUIT FLIPPING DEM DANG PENCILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  42. Dev
    Date: Wed, Feb 11 2009 23:27:27

    I think the most formal is pen manipulation

    so it would be pen manipulation>pen spinning

  43. Kuma♥
    Date: Thu, Feb 12 2009 01:15:06

    Random girls tell me it is baton spinning / pen twirling and then i get pissed

  44. Jtrophy
    Date: Thu, Feb 12 2009 03:32:44

    what i hate most is when people call pen spinning "pencil twirling". it pisses me off so much. but i agree with Dev in that pen manuplation sounds better then pen spinning ^^

  45. Stevieboy7
    Date: Thu, Feb 12 2009 07:10:21

    uh... pen spinning makes the most sense.. because that is all that we are doing.
    Spinning= moving in a circular motion in space.

    about 95% of penspinning tricks involve a circular motion, whether it be vertical like a charge, or on a horizontal plane like a shadow...

  46. Loanshark
    Date: Wed, Feb 18 2009 15:46:24

    I still think that TAODMAWUTOFQAS should be it.

  47. G.lanz
    Date: Wed, Feb 18 2009 16:54:33

    contact juggling = all kinds of 'pen' spinning

    pen spinning = spinning with actual pens (no buster CYLs or other non-writable pens)
    ---
    I was spinning a non-writable object once, and someone asked what I was doing. I said 'pen spinning', and the person said "wow, that's one weird pen. how does it write?". I had a hard time explaining that you don't actually have to have a pen to spin a pen. This made me think: "now why is spinning sticks still called pen spinning?"
    ---
    ^^
    Why we couldn't have 'pen' in the formal name

  48. Zweebna
    Date: Wed, Feb 18 2009 22:45:38

    QUOTE (G.lanz @ Feb 18 2009, 11:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    contact juggling = all kinds of 'pen' spinning

    pen spinning = spinning with actual pens (no buster CYLs or other non-writable pens)
    ---
    I was spinning a non-writable object once, and someone asked what I was doing. I said 'pen spinning', and the person said "wow, that's one weird pen. how does it write?". I had a hard time explaining that you don't actually have to have a pen to spin a pen. This made me think: "now why is spinning sticks still called pen spinning?"
    ---
    ^^
    Why we couldn't have 'pen' in the formal name
    Contact juggling is too general a term. Contact juggling is just a form of object manipulation in which the object stays in pretty much constant contact with juggler's body, so penspinning is really just a form of contact juggling. As far as the stick/pen thing is concerned, everything is made from pen parts, and can almost always be made writable, so that doesn't really matter IMO.

    Pen manipulation seems best for formal, penspinning for informal.

  49. Dev
    Date: Thu, Feb 19 2009 01:12:04

    QUOTE (Jtrophy @ Feb 11 2009, 08:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    what i hate most is when people call pen spinning "pencil twirling". it pisses me off so much. but i agree with Dev in that pen manuplation sounds better then pen spinning ^^


    I HATE angryfire.gif When people call it pencil twirling. It makes me want to take there pencil and shove it up were the sun don't shine