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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Looking Forward to This Week #165168 01/15/07 06:02 PM Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 1 G gradeafan OP stranger OP gradeafan stranger G Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 1 I hope we are gonna get my favorite "Name turned into a word" Tell me how many of you use MacGyver as a verb? g Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165169 01/15/07 07:35 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165170 01/15/07 08:16 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Now I'm confused (yes, hard to believe...). What's the name of the plot device coined by Hitchcock, and is that an eponym? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165171 01/15/07 08:56 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA I've heard but never used it Like it too, just as smj does http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/newword_display_alpha.php?letter=M Last edited by dalehileman; 01/16/07 04:32 PM. dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165172 01/15/07 09:05 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui 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? g 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. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165173 01/16/07 07:15 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Quote: 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. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165174 01/16/07 09:03 PM Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX M Myridon addict Myridon addict M Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 557 Dallas, TX Quote: 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: MacGuffin #165175 01/16/07 09:46 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Thanks, Myridon. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking Forward to This Week #165176 01/17/07 12:45 AM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada 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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