Thursday, July 17, 2025

Story Post: Kennedy Emerges Victorious Atop Nixon

Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:00:10 UTC

JFK defeats Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States presidential election, becoming the youngest president ever.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

17-07-2025 14:42:00 UTC

Score 4 “atop” is a bit clunky but other than that could be an actual headline

Darknight: he/him

17-07-2025 14:52:03 UTC

Score 4, against would have worked better

JonathanDark: he/him

17-07-2025 14:55:28 UTC

Against is in The Word Bank already

Josh: he/they

17-07-2025 15:31:20 UTC

Score 3. I like that we’re all doing real historical events for this! I feel like “victorious” and “atop” are mildly tautological, and I while I do think we’ll all want to be a bit more relaxed than usual about proper nouns in this round, using two quite context-specific names feels like a bit of a shortcut. But these a minor nitpicks on what is broadly a good effort!

Bucky:

17-07-2025 19:23:02 UTC

Score 3

Base 5 for elegance and simplicity, minus two for making proper nouns do most of the hard work.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

17-07-2025 19:36:53 UTC

Score 4, I don’t really have any beef against proper nouns and it’s quite clean

aria: she/they

18-07-2025 02:02:16 UTC

Score 4. Very clean, reads like a headline actually.

Kevan: Yard he/him

18-07-2025 10:02:04 UTC

Score 4. This is extremely strong and on point, but the “Atop” workaround is unfortunate.

Chiiika: she/her

18-07-2025 18:26:00 UTC

Anything that isn’t war related would be 4+. Gosh, darn; you all seems to kinda just remember wars. Score 4

JonathanDark: he/him

20-07-2025 19:59:42 UTC

This Backronym is now closed.

None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.

Clucky gained 4 Points from the median Score.