Thursday, January 8, 2009
Rom Com - what cool people call Romantic Comedies, the much misunderstood film genre. The misunderstanding coming from people who think guys who like them are gay. But what's more gay: getting head from a lady friend during Maid in Manhattan, or giving your bro a back rub during The Fast and the Furious?
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I claim to have invented this term.
And I have credible sources to back me up.
Yeah, like Dr. Evil's dad invented the question mark.
I heard about this little spat and I figured that I should come check it out for myself. My dear friend Andrew came to me explaining that there was some undue haste about, as there was someone who had disparaged his creation of the term Romcom and was pawning it off as his own. I venture to this here blog only to see that Mr. Vaughan makes no such claim as to have invented any of these terms, his purpose is only to define them and not make claim to their creation. In his statement he only promises to define and clearly he would not claim to have invented the terms "tube top" or "Ted Nugent", so I switch my direction of interest to proving Andrew's credibility as the true creator of ROMCOM.
Fact: The term Romcom is found in the online version of the Urban Dictionary. It was posted to it as of Nov 20, 2005 as seen below.
(1. romcom
A romantic comedy.
mojo: "how was the movie".
aks: "yeah, gr8 i loved it, it wasa romcom."
by its_aks Nov 20, 2005 )
It is also mentioned in the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
(From Wikipedia: Romantic comedy film
Romantic comedy films, colloquially known as "romcom", are movies with light-hearted, humorous plotlines....)
However, as I can attest, my friend Andrew created this term well before the date on Urban dictionary. Although the actual date of concepiton is not known, it was created in high school making it likely anywhere between the years of 2000 and 2002. As for Wikipedia, the idea of the site was started in 2001 but has not boomed until as of late. So I find it fair to assume that the term was not used there until well after Andrew invented it, however there does appear to be a small grey area. Then finally the term again appears on Mr. Ryan Vaughan's blog several years later January 8, 2009. The question to be asked: is it possible that the creation, use and circulation of the term has spread so fast from Rochester, NY to all parts of our nation that it could be so widely used and appear on many credible websites such as this so quickly after concepiton? Is it plausible that Andrew and another man or woman co-created this term as it very directly relates to the abbreviation of Situational Comedy and all it would take is to simply apply that logic to the genre of Romantic Comedy? Not likely. Based on my calculations using complex mathematical theories, algorithms and placing them in a regression formula, I have derived that the chance Mr. Yurman-Glaser was the first to utter the word Romcom as it relates to the genre of Romantic Comedies is 87.32%. Making him the unquestioned mathematical creator of "Romcom".
Jack makes several solid points: the most important being that I don't claim to have invented the term. I did start using the popular nickname formula of "first initial, first syllable of last name" long before A-Rod and C-Web made it popular. My friend Brian Powers was B-Pow in the early 90's, yet I would never assume that I invented the popular usage. So, despite all Jack's elaborate calculations, I return to my former comment about the presumptuousness of young Yurman-Glaser. Saying he invented it is akin to Trump trying to copyright "You're Fired."
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