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Doug... wrote:

Yeah, well -- you know that being THAT creative takes a toll on a
person. In Pat's case, it's obviously a toll on his memory.

I love the way you put that last reference, OM -- I think most people
would be surprised at how many things have been named (even formally)
based on such remarks. On the fictional side, there's Larry Niven's
Mount Lookitthat, but in the real world, there are also many examples.
Such as Montevideo in South America -- the word literally means "I see a
mountain," and the port was named because those were the first words out
of the mouth of the bosun (or whatever) who first spied it.

Doug


I had a friend in college who was a geology major. He says there is a
place in our state (Tennessee) that is named Bumpas because when it was
first settled, the hilly, shale-covered terrain caused lots of slips,
slides, falls and broken bones. Being the hard-working yet-uneducated
folks that they were, they named their little village . . . yep, you
guessed it . . . "Bump Ass". As the town expanded and got
semi-civilized, the newcomers were shocked and eventually the town's
name was gentrified into Bumpas.

Or so my friend swears . . .

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
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