#29589
05/19/2001 4:46 AM
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#29590
05/19/2001 5:16 AM
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I'm not sure but Schwarzenegger sounds like one of those to me.
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#29591
05/19/2001 5:19 AM
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#29592
05/19/2001 4:44 PM
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#29593
05/19/2001 4:45 PM
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...and his son Peter Stone II (a chip of the old block) 
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#29594
05/20/2001 4:48 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Hmmmm. I thought that Schwartzenegger meant black plowman, per The Arnold.
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#29595
05/20/2001 9:25 AM
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During a top-secret meeting of the Cabal of Pooh-Bahs....I know you are sworn not to reveal much, Max, but please tell the plebes a little of what y'all do at these meetings! And is there a secret handshake? When we get elevated, do we get secret decoder rings, and baseball [delicate cough] caps with 42 stitched on them? 
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#29596
05/20/2001 9:48 AM
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Max, but please tell the plebes a little of what y'all do at these meetings! And is there a secret handshake?
Yes, is it one of those " 'Scuse the warts!" jobbies? Reveal all!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#29597
05/20/2001 12:38 PM
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Max Quordlepleen>>>>
The idea for a thread soliciting such pleonasms was proposed, and here it is. Does anyone have any other "pleonastic" names to offer?
MaxQ, I am still not sure if I got the idea right of the word "neoplastic" so please let me know if Jasmine Flores (Jasmine is a flower and Flores is Spanish for flowers) is one of those names. Just so I get the concept right.
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#29598
05/20/2001 3:31 PM
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>not sure if I got the idea right of the word "neoplastic"
oh, I think you got it all right... malaprops to you.
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#29599
05/20/2001 3:46 PM
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typical pooh-bah meeting:
24:00 exchange of the sacred handshake
24:10 burning of top-sacred minutes-of-last-meeting
24:12 chanting of sacred number [indicipherable]
24:13 decoding of the top-sacred minutes-of-last-meeting
(problematic... no decoder ring... slightly charred)
24:14 selection of meeting chairthing, minuter
24:59 no progress, move to adjourn
25:00 adjourn
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#29600
05/20/2001 7:22 PM
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So, it seems that Pooh-Bahs have mastered the art of the committee meeting. That schedule shows that they can conduct a meeting in half the usual time, and yet accomplish much more than is typical. [applause]
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#29601
05/20/2001 7:55 PM
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#29602
05/20/2001 9:26 PM
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a spartan comment: half the usual time
aided by short attention spans...
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#29603
05/20/2001 9:32 PM
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#29604
05/21/2001 9:36 AM
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> Hmmmm. I thought that Schwartzenegger meant black plowman, per The Arnold.
Well, close enough. Put it this way the etymology comes from a job using a harrow (die Egge) and has nothing to do with any language used to specify a person's skin colour(e.g. der Neger). I sometimes eat at a traditional Bavarian place called Isenegger (I guess that's short for Wiesenegger, which is a field/meddow plougher).
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#29605
05/21/2001 9:40 AM
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#29606
05/21/2001 11:31 AM
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I have a cousin named Peter Craig*. His elder brother helpfully nicknamed him Rocky.
*From the Gaelic, creag, rock, crag.
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#29607
05/21/2001 3:10 PM
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Richard Shaw, nickname "Rick."
Tee Hee !
No "you don't look Chinese" jokes, please!
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#29608
05/21/2001 3:20 PM
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I've read this three times and am still laughing, tsuwm.
Well, zip up and join us wunchers (thanks, Rod) raght cheer.
tsuwm (see? I'm being nice for once), I'm glad you didn't tell about the sacred rite.
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#29609
05/21/2001 5:55 PM
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Linda Belle or Stella Astor (aster) or Maryjane Grass 
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#29610
05/22/2001 1:07 AM
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Charlie Bell, recently of the Michigan State basketball team, has a mother whose name is ...
Belle Bell
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#29611
05/24/2001 12:20 PM
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This all reminds me of the pilots in the Airplane movies ("Roger, roger. What's our vector, Victor?"). I have often been advised to seek a career in university administration so I could one day be Provost Provost. Perhaps I would be lucky enough to work with a Dean Dean!
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#29612
05/24/2001 12:24 PM
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We have a park in Ithaca named after, I believe it is, Roy H. Park. Or either one of his close family members, one.
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#29613
05/24/2001 12:51 PM
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While slightly off the theme, I am reminded of a pair of doctors who used to practice together in Oregon City, Oregon, USA some while back. One was named Jack Chitty; the other was Cameron Bangs. Many were hoping that their children would join them in their practice, thus producing the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic. 
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#29614
05/24/2001 2:10 PM
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A colleague of mine knows a fellow historian named Katsenellenbogen. We have also located another historian named Osenfeffer. We are now seeking an historical partnership of husdand-and-wife , or father-and-son or a pair of brothers, named Gilly, so that we can publish a joint paper about the seaside leisure industry over the past century or two. It would. of course, be entitled, "By the Sea." 
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#29615
05/24/2001 2:29 PM
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Ok--I am a bit slow-- how do you mix Gilly or 2 Gilly's with Katsenellenbogen and Osenfeffer. and come up with something related to sea side holiday resorts?
your references either require some knowledge of german, local UK resorts (I know Brighton!), or some esoteric tome that my mish mash of an education has missed--(or are so bloody obvious, that I am exposing my self as being dense!)-- can you make it simple for me?
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#29616
05/24/2001 2:47 PM
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Provost Provost, Dean DeanThen there's Major Major Major Major.
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#29617
05/24/2001 3:23 PM
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Sorry david-- you could never be a provost-- since its a well known fact that they never have anything but last names for their first name-- they are always a Williams or Johnson or Madox-- or have some other not to uncommon last name for the first name -- and they alway have three names-- so Harrison Ford misses out-- but Ford Harrison Ford has potential... (in fact a good deal of potential, since the xyx combo of names seems to be an indication of being provost material, and such named children are cultivated from an early age...)
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#29618
05/24/2001 4:06 PM
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...its a well known fact that they never have anything but last names for their first name
Perhaps I could sneak in if I went the equally popular "first initial, middle name" route: Provost D. Collins Provost sounds blue-blooded enough, I think.
PS After spending some time on Sparteye's great anti-E thread, simply spreading e's around without a second thought seems practically luxurious!
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#29619
05/24/2001 4:26 PM
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Or, using the Gomer Pyle*, last name first, first name, middle name last technique:
Provost David David Collins Provost
and if you want to squeeze the title in there
Provost Provost David David Collins Provost
*Or was that Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants?
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#29620
05/25/2001 11:07 AM
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Rhuby, I'm also in the dark... can you splain?
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#29621
05/25/2001 5:39 PM
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In reply to:
While slightly off the theme, I am reminded of a pair of doctors who used to practice together in Oregon City, Oregon, USA some while back. One was named Jack Chitty; the other was Cameron Bangs. Many were hoping that their children would join them in their practice, thus producing the Chitty-Chitty-Bangs Bangs Clinic.
That's hysterical, Geoff... I actually[tm] went to grade school with Shane and Chris Bangs, sons of Dr. Cameron Bangs! [Welling choruses of It's a Small World e]
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#29622
05/26/2001 6:21 PM
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'pon my honor, I once met a woman who had named her daughter Vicky Victoria.
I still cringe at that.
So, regarding "by the sea" - what's the Cat's Elbow got to do with that? (I'm pretty dense, too.)
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#29623
05/27/2001 12:48 PM
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'pon my honor, I once met a woman who had named her daughter Vicky Victoria.
Does she pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman?
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#29624
05/28/2001 3:07 AM
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To Ledasdottir, StrophicAnna, and Dark Victory:
Gilly Gilly Osenfeffer Katzenellenbogen (thanks for the spelling Rhuby) by the sea is a nonsense chant used in British school playgrounds for skipping games.
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#29625
05/28/2001 3:44 PM
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lucky enough to work with a Dean Dean!In my brother's faculty at U of Manitoba there really is a James Dean, assistant Dean of Arts (I think). So he's Dean James Dean.
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#29626
05/31/2001 10:50 PM
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Although not pleonastic, or even neoplastic (at least not in public), the Dean of Academic Records at the University of Nevada at Reno, who was kind enough to send my former housemate a letter cheerily informing him that his grade of "Incomplete" in a math class had been changed to "F," is aptually named Charles V. Records.
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#29627
06/01/2001 6:19 PM
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Bingley - many thanks for the clarification. That's a bit like Olly Olly Oxen Free in the game of hide and seek, or, as one of my friends said it, Olly Olly Umfree. Jazz- Who knows. All I know is that that parent was a bit confused. 
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#29628
06/03/2001 3:36 PM
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Maybe this qualifies... in the Minneapolis paper the other day, I took note of the article about a U of MN (ex-)professor's guilty plea to six counts of having child pornography. The professor's name? Richard Pervo. One can only assume he could go by Dick
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