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Well Batman (Bruce Wayne) is an orphan. His parents' deaths at the hands of a mugger are in the very first Batman comic. (If you have a copy, mail to me for safekeeping.) As far as his being a bastard, I dunno.
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re: Supposedly, curry favor is from ME currayen favel with favel, fauvel being a fallow colored horse, which was a symbol of deceit, so, to be hypocritical. and fallow colored as we know from the fallow thread, is a sort of yellow. in the middle ages, beggers, lepers, jugglers, and marginalize peoples were required to wear striped clothing--very often yellow stripes.. and the devil in 'plays' was always shown wearing yellow stripes.. yellow has an interesting association with sin and deceit. stripes, and attitudes toward stripes in clothing have changed, but we still have the comic book assocication of prisioners wearing stripes... and stripes (broad, garish stripes) are still used on servants clothing.. (like doormen, or jockies, or McDoDo's employees) of course, i still don't 'get' why to curry favor is.. has something to do with a chestnut.. (but don't bother trying to explain...) more on stripes.. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1134/10_110/80774396/p1/article.jhtml(or you could read the book..)
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A chestnut is a horse that is chestnut colored. Likewise a roan, though they may be of other colors.
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A currycomb is used to groom a chestnut roan
Well for heaven's sake, mav--there is no "getting" you: I thought that one was way too obvious for your devious little mind!
Didn't know, or had forgotten, about favel--thanks, jheem.
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(just as i don't ever use the word dear to mean expensive or pricey). but then the irish (as well as americans) have a long history of using word the english think to be archaic (just because they have stopped using them)
Actually, I think 'dear' meaning expensive is still alive and well in England. I don't think I would say something was dear (so blunt, these Americans) but I might say "It's a bit on the dear side".
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"Dear" for "expensive" is not only still common here in Zild, it is easily the most common use for the word. I've often wondered if the similarity between dear and teuer is merely coincidental.
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> way too obvious for your devious little mind!
I thang you :)
I was pertickly innerested in this expression because it's an example of a language fossil.
Nope: Batman may be a less specific term than the capitalisation suggests... <eg>
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I love the deadjectival form of dear, dearth, along with all its -th cousins.
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as in Darth? 
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Darth didn't bother me as much as Binaka, but, yes, sure, Shrdlu, Ani's yer pop.
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