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#23811 03/22/01 05:45 PM
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I like that; I can say I come from New York, New York, New York :)

Start spreading the news-news, already


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Start spreading the news-news, already

N'york, N'york, N'york.
I saw that, F.!


#23813 03/22/01 07:48 PM
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"Next thing you're gone tell me you got South Lyon there in Michigan."

Of course. It is about 10 miles north of Ann Arbor. I have friends who live there.

"Some other classical names in my neck-o-the-woods; Rome, Romulus, Etna, Podunk, Cincinnatus.

Michigan has a Rome Center, a Romulus, and two Podunks. Did I mention that a lot of New Yorkers settled here?



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A friend of mine in Spain originally comes from a small village in the north called La Hija de Dios (God's Daughter), which I think is rather a beautiful name for a village... Unfortunately, he doesn't know anything about why it is called like that...

I was looking over Bridget96's bio this morning and think I am safe in saying Hija de Dios derives its name from Bridget having once been seen there; but, since she *is* a goddess, it would be unseemly to speculate in what century this may have been. ...

Something else just occurred* to me. If our goddess has a bio, surely the verb form of "to live" applies** to the Divine. This would suggest an answer to harrysiegel's query under "lives" in "Q&As about words." I will have to amend my early opinion and say "God enters our hearts and lives" means "God enters our hearts and dwells there." To forestall any peanut gallery mumblings, this is no plug for religion, but a stopper (meant ludely, not lewdly): A new Divine rises on our shorter time horizon; Her number is 96.

*"To occur to" is an interesting expression, think?

**Can a thing be said to apply *to* God, or can it only be said to be an attribute *of* God? And if a thing *can* be said to apply to God, a a verb be such a *thing*? (PGMs, again, are out of place)


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And because someone mentioned "the longest word that isn't a Welsh Town", a story about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
- When I was a grubby teenager we had codewords based on place names we wrote on "love-letter" envelopes: BURMA=Be Undressed Ready my Angel; Norwich=(k)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home, etc. You get the picture, right? The august Daily Telegraph had a competition a few years ago for some new ones, and Llan... won with a phrase starting "Listen Love, Accountancy's No Fun.." and ending up "Oh God, Oh God, Oh Christ, Hanky!"
I didn't find the complete answer with Google yet - can anyone post it?

Ro* Ward

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A new Divine rises on our shorter time horizon; Her number is 96.

ahhhhh if it were only true, my dear. lest this get out of hand, let me take this chance to assure you - one and all - that my stated profession was a capricious misnomer, which could have been equalled only if tsuwm had've listed his as "simpleton" (sorry to pick on you, tsuwm; i had a whole list going in my mind but feared i'd leave someone out in my indirect praises).

bottom line is i just thought 'goddess' sounded a bit more catchy than '7-years without a degree college dropout, currently unemployed'.

[retreating back to Olympus to dine on her mid-morning ambrosia emoticon]


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Fascinating stuff, Rod. I wonder where our resident Taffy is to fill us in. Maybe in the meantime, you'd like to start trying to build a story out of a really long place name
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu

And don't come back 'til you're done, y'hear!


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Rod, those are great!

And Max, who's Taffy?


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"Taffy" is a generic term for a Welshman. I have always assumed it's a corruption of Daffydd, the Welsh "David"


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"Taffy" is a generic term for a Welshman. I have always assumed it's a corruption of Daffydd

Ok, will someone please explain Taffy? And I doubt that a man from Wales is a daffydowndilly!


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