The quotation at the bottom of today's mailing from Anu is:

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S.
Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1797-1812)

Not bad for somebody who managed to fit in quite a varied career before dying at age 15.

Bingley

Well, this nearly doubles his age:

Author: Buckminster, Joseph Stevens, 1784-1812.
Title: Sermons by the late Rev. J.S. Buckminster. With a memoir of his life and character.
Edition: Second edition.
Publication info: Boston : Printed and published by Wells and Lilly ...1815.

As long as we're playing junior Quibblemeister here, how about quibbling about calling it an eponym when the name itself is derived from the character's nature.

How very odd: my W.otD. has no quotation at the bottom of today's mailing . It reads:

"The arrogant nephew and his two drawcansir uncles appeared ..."
Washington Irving; The Widow's Tale; Defiance Democrat (Ohio);
Oct 13, 1855.

Eponyms -- AWAD's perennial favorites -- make their appearance once again.
We've had 38 weeks of them over the last 10 years. Eponyms are words derived
from people's names. There is a reason for their popularity: where else can
you a find a whole story in just one word? This week's selection features
words named after people famous and infamous, real and fictional, well-known
and relatively obscure. This week we'll see words derived from characters in
Greek mythology, French royalty, US law, and English fiction.
-Anu Garg
anu@wordsmith.org

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What are you, trying for the position of head nitpicker?

here's what is at the bottom of "Today's Word", which matches the dates in Connie's post..

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S. Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1784-1812)

No; but Bingley said he got something mailed to him, and I didn't get it! [jealous e ]

I got what Bingley got.

I did too.

In today's mailing:

thersitical (thur-SIT-i-kuhl) adjective

Foulmouthed; scurrilous.

[After Thersites, a Greek in Iliad known for his abusive and foulmouthed
nature. He called Agamemnon greedy and Achilles a coward.]

"The self-described beneficiaries of most of this I.Q. increase,
Princeton's 'Smart Fans,' have railed at season's end against
thersitical cheers and jouncing the stands at basketball games."
Bullyrag; The Princeton Spectator (New Jersey); Mar 3, 1998.

"To conclude, after the fashion of our Thersitical Magazinist,
Mr. Poe is about 39. He may be more or less."
Hiram Fuller; Mr Poe and the New York Literati; Evening Mirror
(New York); May 26, 1846.

This week's theme: eponyms.

Erratum: The year of birth in yesterday's quotation should have been 1784. [my bold]

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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be
just as proud for half the money. -Arthur Godfrey, television host,
entertainer (1903-1983)

"I got what Bingley got."
eta--
http://www.hokies.net/images/00-01/emoticons/01_11_01_face_tongue-small.gif

Great likeness, Jackie.

face_tongue-small.gif

what, you on vacation, too?

Actually, the fourth one in the second row here
http://images.google.com/images?q=tongue+face&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N is what I really meant, but the link to it is broken, alas; had to find a substitute. And a long time it took, too! All your fault, eta.

>the fourth one in the second row here

or the second one in the fourth row?
or the fourth one in the second column??

yikes, Jackie! 'twas a bold search!

Just a couple of problems with Google Image search. One, they seem to be on a shuffle thang, never in the same place you saw them the first time you googled 'em and second, who knows why some of the pic's that come up are there. I'm specific, but they aren't

It's possibly metadata in the image files "properties" tab. I often have the same sort of thing happen with Google Image search - results are listed that don't appear to feature any of the keywords I used. The other cause could be that the image occurs on a page that has the keywords used.

<<I got what Bingley got.>>
<<I did too>>

This all sounds just a bit cosier than kosher.

;)

Well, snuggle right on in, my dear--you are always welcome!