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"The Okay-ish Barrier Reef". Can you change the adjective great in famous sayings/names to another one?

Asked by rebbel (35553points) August 14th, 2021

To give one more example: the Great Recession.

The…..... Recession

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ragingloli's avatar

Alexander the Meh.
Ivan the meanie.

kneesox's avatar

The Annoying Depression.
The So-So Wall of China.
The Somewhat Superior Pumpkin.

An Adequate Question.

Patty_Melt's avatar

Alexander the hot
The frigid beyond
Pompous Britain
Puny white shark

canidmajor's avatar

Katherine the Bizarre

The Dirty Outdoors

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

The black sniffle.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

The Mediocre Gatsby

Patty_Melt's avatar

Tolerable Balls Of Fire
Routine Expectations
Tender Gatsby

Nomore_lockout's avatar

The Wannabe Khan

JLoon's avatar

Low Expections – by Charles Dunkins

The Average Gatsby – by F. Not Fitzgerald

The Mediocre Escape – starring Steve McPawn

The Best Story We Can Manage – the life of Jeebus

janbb's avatar

Ordinary Central Station
The Bleh Tetons
The Not-so-spectacular Canyon
The Nebbishy Old Opry
Attila the Nun
Alexander Who?

canidmajor's avatar

The Not That Tall or Majestic Tetons.

filmfann's avatar

Underwhelming balls of fire.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

God is “ok”

Nomore_lockout's avatar

Lol this thread is hilarious. It’s really gr, uh, mediocre.

Patty_Melt's avatar

Sweaty Balls Of Fire
Stinky Apes
Fleabitten dane

janbb's avatar

The Measly Train Robbery

kritiper's avatar

When it comes to The Great Barrier Reef, “GREAT” is part of the name so not an adjective. Same in some other “GREAT” names.

janbb's avatar

@kritiper For the sake of this game, I don’t think it matters.

kneesox's avatar

Oz the Ho-hum and Semipowerful.

janbb's avatar

The Lousy Smoky Mountains

kneesox's avatar

The Dullest Show on Earth.

“Have a reasonably good day.”

filmfann's avatar

Unremarkable Day in the Morning!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Yielding State Building in NYC

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Minor Cayman Island

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Pebbly Mountains in Colorado

kneesox's avatar

The Pitiful Lakes.

The Unimpressive Plains.

kneesox's avatar

Ramses the Common.

The Run-of-the-Mill Pyramid of Giza.

janbb's avatar

The Midget of Rhodes
The Hanging Laundry of Babylon
The Buoy of Alexandria

kritiper's avatar

OH! It’s a GAME! Shucks, you shoulda said that in the first place…

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Short Island home of Montauk, Hampton Bays, and Westhampton NY

kneesox's avatar

@kritiper anyway it doesn’t stop being an adjective just because it’s part of a name.

kritiper's avatar

@kneesox Then why is it capitalized?
(A person, place, or thing is a noun.)

kneesox's avatar

Capitalizing has nothing to do with it. It’s capitalized because it’s in a name, but the part of speech has to do with the meaning and use of the word. Tons of names include adjectives. They were adjectives before they were part of a name, like the “white” in White House and “first” in First Lady. “Great” is an adjective and nothing else. It isn’t a person, place, or thing.

YARNLADY's avatar

@kneesox I love this exchange, since I wasn’t clear on the subject.

smudges's avatar

The Chilly War
The Pretty Darn Good Smokey Mountains
The Very Nice Canyon

Brian1946's avatar

All Creatures of Whatever Size and Small
The Failed One-Term Dictator.
The Impotent Pretender
The Grated Santini- starring Slobbert Dufailure

Nomore_lockout's avatar

“The Claustrophobic Escape” staring the late, Fair to Middling, Steve McQueen

Nomore_lockout's avatar

The Horniest Generation. (Those Wonderful Folks who brought you all of us Boomers).

Kardamom's avatar

The Bland Canyon

The Scanned Tetons

The Damned Ol’ Opry

The Big Bored Wolf

Rotund Red Riding Hood

Welcome to MacDunkle’s would you like to order a Crappy Meal?

Nomore_lockout's avatar

I’ll pass on the Crappy meal. Just a big bowl of Sugar Frosted Flakes. They’re marvelous!!!

flutherother's avatar

Alexander the Grape
Hubcap Theft Auto
The Panned Canyon

seawulf575's avatar

When the thick lady sings. Possibly When the gravitationally challenged lady sings.

kneesox's avatar

Seems like we’ve gone a long way from “great”.

Patty_Melt's avatar

@kneesox I see we have not only strayed far from great, but also a single word substitute.

I’m feeling like some jellies don’t know what an adjective is.
However, on the formerly issued statements, OP does include statements AND names.

The Amusing Depression
The Slight Divide
Frail grandma
Talkative grandpa
Silent Escape

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