Looking Forward to This Week

I hope we are gonna get my favorite "Name turned into a word"

Tell me how many of you use MacGyver as a verb?

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I don't, but I did like the show. Welcome aBoard!

Edit: to be an eponym, doesn't a term have to be named after a real person, not a fictional one?

Now I'm confused (yes, hard to believe...). What's the name of the plot device coined by Hitchcock, and is that an eponym?

I've heard but never used it

Like it too, just as smj does

http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/newword_display_alpha.php?letter=M

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I hope we are gonna get my favorite "Name turned into a word"

Tell me how many of you use MacGyver as a verb?

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I've never used it, but I like it. I have read it in several geek blogs, and I'm almost certain that the first time I read it was in a NASA press release, describing the unscheduled EVA during the last shuttle mission to the ISS.

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I don't, but I did like the show. Welcome aBoard!

Edit: to be an eponym, doesn't a term have to be named after a real person, not a fictional one?

Says you, sherlock.

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Now I'm confused (yes, hard to believe...). What's the name of the plot device coined by Hitchcock, and is that an eponym?

MacGuffin, possibly from a joke. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

Thanks, Myridon.

Hi Fan
My Dad was particularely good at McGuyvering but I didn't know anyone but he and I used it. Thanks for the flashback to a blustery fall day on the beach.