...edited…

Thanks, but due to the great and handy grandmother I had I know how to embroider and crochet as well.  Luck on your endeavor.  I embroider my own hats.

Not everyone would admit to that Luke, a man of many talents, and wearer of numerous hats.  Maybe you should knock one up to go with your avatar.

I don’t think this thread should be in Word of the Day! 

It would be better in the ‘Omnibus’ category.

ACB - 23 January 2009 06:24 AM

I don’t think this thread should be in Word of the Day! 

It would be better in the ‘Omnibus’ category.

And obviously someone else agreed with you:  me too !

douglang - 22 January 2009 10:29 PM

Not everyone would admit to that Luke, a man of many talents, and wearer of numerous hats.  Maybe you should knock one up to go with your avatar.

My poor badly drawn boy
I still see him as a Babylonian with a sitar.
He needs a name that I can embroider onto his hat.
Something Babylonian?
Nebuchadnezzar??

We tried to get it into the omnibus, ACB, but the ticket inspector wouldn’t let it pass.  Is this a thread, or more like a yarn ?

I think a plume would do the trick Luke, with a Babylonian crest.

LukeJavan8 - 23 January 2009 12:55 PM

Nebuchadnezzar??

While reading the part of the Bible that concerns the famous King Nebuchadnezzar and the rest of the Babylonians, I often thought, “Where do they come up with these names?!?”

...I mean, do their names have meaning, or were they pretty much doing what I do…having fun with a couple letters here and there?

As a teacher and for a time a teacher of ancient history, I can tell you that they do have meaning.
Nebuchadnezzar, e.g., “Nabu (a god) protect my eldest (son)”, it is a prayer of the mother.
There are hundreds of places to find the context of names.  For example there are 108 names
in the Bible that have “el’ in them: Daniel, Samuel, Rachel, Michael, Gabriel,,
Elizabeth. “El” means god, so Daniel is God is Judge, Michael is Who is like God, etc.

Sean:

By the way, this is one of my favorite sites for name research:  http://www.behindthename.com/
Enjoy
Luke

douglang - 23 January 2009 01:08 PM

We tried to get it into the omnibus, ACB, but the ticket inspector wouldn’t let it pass.  Is this a thread, or more like a yarn ?

I think a plume would do the trick Luke, with a Babylonian crest.

I don’t know, Doug, do you think a plume would make him look like a “dandy” from
some Renaissance Faire??

We tried to get it into the omnibus, ACB, but the ticket inspector wouldn’t let it pass.

It was turned back by a burly GOG at the door.

Perky too~
Ever our Gog in residence.

I’m not touching that one, he said, touching off an uproar.

He needs a name that I can embroider onto his hat.

Is this a thread, or more like a yarn?

O my GOG, some people must be so confused.

In Slovakia, ticket inspectors don’t wear uniforms because it would be like hunting rabbits with a tambour.

Pretty impressive: putting all the threads together: almost poetic.
Keep it up ACB

At least somebody is paying attention.  There’s something quite endearing about that final quote - how could anyone ever make sense of it without the Agora ????

ACB, see if you can make sense of the parodied list of thank you’s I posted quite some time ago - no one else has figured it out yet.

Original contributors list:-

We would like to thank Bernard Comrie, Betty Starling, Christo Lombaard, Jaklin Kornfilt, John Whitman, Margarita Suñer, Mark Aronoff, Owen Beard, Patricia Tancred, Peter McCrossin, Philip Baldi, Tim Goodwin, George Williams, Ernesto Santos, Lucian Chimene, Jay Handle, Gestin Suttle, Robert Bell, and Simon Venner for helping yourDictionary collect this list of oft mispronounced words.

Abridged list:-

I would like to add my thanks to Barnyard Comry, Beady Staring, Crystal Humbert, Jacqueline Cornfield, John Blackman, Marguerita Sunrise, Mark Oftenon, My Goatee, Patrician Tankard, Potomac Crossing, Flip Toupee, Timgo Dwin, George McLaren, Earnest O’Santos, Loosened Chemise, J. Handel, Dennis Tito, Rupert Helmet, and Slim Veneer for helping yourDictionary collect this list of oft mispronounced words.

A small nod of recognition for the first person to figure out “Dennis Tito”.

  in “most often mispronounced words”

Gestin Suttle > guest in shuttle > space tourist > Dennis Tito.
Williams > McLaren - motor racing (Formula 1) teams.

I can’t get any meaning out of the others, apart from parody of the originals!

A small nod of recognition ACB, correct on all counts.