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Topic Options #70929 - 05/22/02 09:38 PM pipe bomber wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Hebephrenic: a condition of adolescent silliness. Remember his inappropriate grin? Top #70930 - 05/24/02 05:25 AM Re: pipe bomber Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Hebephrenics in action: A child farts in the classroom while the class listens to an exquisite excerpt from Beethoven's 9th symphony. The resultant reaction from the rest of his classmates is hebephrenic, if hebephrenic can be used as an adjective. Hmmmm, pipe bomber is curiously appropriate here. Top #70931 - 05/24/02 05:31 AM Re: pipe bomber Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Well, smack my face and call me Sally. Look at this definition: 1. hebephrenic adj Suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior; Synonyms: schizophrenic http://ultralingua.net/dictionary/index.php3?letters=hebephrenic That definitely wipes out my application to the elementary music classroom above! Top #70932 - 05/24/02 09:41 AM Re: pipe bomber wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear WW: No indeed. Hebephrenia does not have to be pathological, though it often is. Top #70933 - 06/13/02 04:31 PM silly grin wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3789 Loc: Worcester, MA Does the name "Alfred E Neuman" ring any bells? Top #70934 - 06/14/02 11:43 AM Re: pipe bomber dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK Stems from Greek, hebe = youth. Hebe was also cup-bearer to the gods - was she noted for her youth? Not a medical question, just wondering. Forgive me! dxb. Top #70935 - 06/14/02 11:59 AM Re: silly grin wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear wofahulicodoc: Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine looks to me more like room temperature IQ than hebeprhrenic, which ususally has a distinctive inappropriateness in the facial expression. Top #70936 - 06/14/02 12:02 PM Re: pipe bomber wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear dxb: I suspect that Hebe was the role model, so that her name was applied to the type. I thought Zeus preferred male cup bearers. Divine deviation. Yuk. Top #70937 - 06/14/02 12:28 PM Re: pipe bomber dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK Dear wwh, Not sure of all his proclivities, but Zeus was married to Hera and seems to have enjoyed Leda and also Nemesis, by one or other of which he became father to Helen of Troy, supposedly hatched from an egg (swan egg?). Maybe he simply felt a godlike disdain for minor physiological differences. dxb Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8426 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209797 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members sylviasuper, continent2, a2teacher, teepee, smoothcriminal86 8426 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 21 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 wofahulicodoc 56 jenny jenny 56 endymion6 49 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Faldage 14 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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