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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Due to the international nature of this group #20923 03/02/2001 2:06 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I wish to announce that I have become an eponym. http://notmuch.com/Speak/BBS/Odds-And-Ends/816x3.html I post this here merely to add to my resumé the line World famous Eponym. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: faldage the eponym #20924 03/02/2001 2:13 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Well, good for you!! Quite a coup. Now, go change the Profile. wow (High Priestess) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Due to the international nature of this group #20925 03/02/2001 3:42 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I know this is coming full circle, but it seems (somehow) apropos to the situation.... faldage - [Law] An old privilege by which a lord of the manor could set up folds in any fields within the manor, in which his tenants were obliged to put their sheep, the object being to manure the land. -joe bfstplk Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Faldage #20926 03/02/2001 3:46 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Thank you, tsuwm. That explains a lot. [irresistable impulse emoticon] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Faldage #20927 03/02/2001 4:30 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 As Theodore Sturgeon said: "Right. 90% of everything is crap!" Or as Anon so aptly put it, "Remember. Everything we eat has, at one time or other, been eaten before." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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