This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Johnny E: Doesn't this phrase refer to two people closely missing each other? Even knowing it was a Shipping pun I'd have assumed it meant two characters very nearly getting it on but narrowly missing each other a few times first.
Taelor: Does anyone actually ship any of the Real Life couples. Unless a) they have a serious base that ships them for non-lulzy reasons (that would be a Crack Pairing), and b) they have almost no real interaction, they shouldn't be here. The Denisof-Hannigan and Hargitay-Hermann examples are borederline, and should only be kept if the actors RL relationship prompted fans to support en mass an in-universe pairing that had no canon evidence. Is this the case? And I don't think the Bondareva-Shapley example should stay, given that even the enty itself admitts that no one actually ships it. Any objections to the removal of some or all of thse examples?
TripleElation: Come now, and I suppose the ship depicted at the title picture (or any of the others mentioned) has this huge, non-lulzy fanbase? As I see it this trope is all but a subtrope of Crack Pairing. Had these been added to Fan-Preferred Couple or something I suppose we'd have a problem.
Taelor: If we abandon the non-for-the-lulz following test, then what's the point of even having this trope as distinct from Crack Pairing? Normally I'm all for splitters over lumpers, but there has to be at least some difference in material for the split to be justified. And yes, SasuHina actually does have a modereate following (or at least it did, I must confess that I haven't been active in the ''Naruto fandom for more than a year), mainly because it got both Sasuke and Hinata out of the way NaruSaku.
