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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 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?
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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?
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Last edited by dalehileman; 01/16/2007 4:32 PM.
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Quote:
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
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Thanks, Myridon. 
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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.
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