It is often interesting to identify the initial inspiration source for a new HB idea. There are some obvious ones, and others which are a bit more obscure. We sometimes speak of these inspiration sources in the annotations, but I think it would be very HB of us to methodize the nomenclature of the various
types of inspiration that exist. For instance:
Titular Concatenation (TC)
- combing the titles of two or more existing ideas
Extreme Frustration (XF)
- inspired by the need to make something annoying stop
WIBNI to Reality Extension (WRX)
- the possible realization of a long-standing WIBNI
Idiotic Pun, Clever Pun, Tiresome Pun (IP, CP, TP)
- (self-explanatory)
Manifest Genius (MG)
- the (almost divine) flash of inspiration that makes us all slap our heads
Too Many Beers (TMB)
- a patently absurd idea that had to have occurred to the creator after a particularly saturnalian binge
Idea gratia Ideatis (IGI)
- (someone fix my wanting Latin, please...) obviously posted just for the sole purpose of posting an idea (such as this idea)
Ad Absurdum (AA)
- some method or notion taken to its logical extreme and introduced in reality
Science Takes a Holiday (STH)
- a dimwit extends a half-learned scientific notion to fantastic length and solves the world's problems
Stupid Idea Rework (SIR)
- a bad idea inspires a real solution to the same problem
Stupid Idea Extension (SIE)
- a bad idea just gets worse
Of course there are many more. We could simply post the associated abbreviation and be done with it. This is similar of course to the use of terms like WIBNI and the infamous WTCTTISITMWIBNIIWR (or whatever that was...), but this is more directly focused on what mode of inspiration led the person to think of it, good or bad, whereas those HB terms are specifically for reasons for deserving an m - f - d.