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Third in a series of unexpected installments to repurpose archaic terms for the names of Indy Pop Bands or Micro Brew Beers . This time naval terms from the Naval Terms and Definitions by Commander C.C. Soul, U.S.N. (Second Edition, 1926), previously reviewed in an earlier blog.  Jibber the Kibber* Runner and Tackle Spanish Burton Double Bottoms Eyebolt Monkey Gaff Man Ropes Preventer (mistyped and misheard as Perverter and Prefer Her) Rose Lashing Tanner Blish Machine Against the Sun Parbuckle Squilgee Eye-Splice Shaft and Alley Snorter Ice Blink Recognition Signal Keep her so Heave 'round   *the only term not to come out of Naval Terms and Definitions

     What’s your favorite color? This may be the most innocuous ice-breaker to open a conversation with a child or ask on a first date.       A survey of ten countries across four continents shows that one color – blue – is the most popular answer, whether it is in Great Britain, China, or Indonesia. The best selling crayons of all time, Crayola Crayons gives us a choice of 64 colors. Cognitive experts have shown that we can see about 100 levels of red-green and 100 levels of yellow-blue, with thousands more variations for levels of light and dark. They calculate that the total number of colors the human eye can perceive is as much as 10 million.      Color is how we express our moods. I’ve got the blues. Shakespeare coined, green with envy. Color is associated with national identity. Dutch Olympic athletes always wear orange. A patriotic American is said to bleed red, white, and blue. Color influences what we eat. Comedian George Carlin...

An unexpected second installment to repurpose archaic terms for as Indy Pop bands names or Micro brew beers.  This time architecture terms. Acanthus Scroll   Ashyler   Baluster Bargeboard Battlements Blind Arch Broken Pediment Corinthian Order Egg and Dart Fenestration Festoon Hewn and Peg Nulling Splat Stopped Flutes Wattle and Daub  

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                  I've become fixated with names. Names of people, products, places, and companies. Anything that gets a name. This post is a collection of riffs mostly about names of people I like from the books I've read so far this year.  From the second book in Sir Osbert Sitwell's memoir, Great Morning Miss Primrose Miss Figglestone Sir Titus Tittlebyte Lady Viola Tree and her daughters, Iris and Felicity and husband Sir Herbert . They could be depended upon to supply an entertainment of the most delicious personal fantasy based on the flimsiest and most delicate foundation of sense. Lady Tree when offered two kinds of fish at dinner, 'Ye cannot serve both Cod and Salmon.' Another icthyophoagous bon-mot when offered Haddock responded, 'Cry Haddock and let slip my dogs of war!' On her death bed, she referred to her lawyer coming to her bedside to teach her death duties.   More names from another book, Kearny's March Aquilla Gl...

Is there opportunity in this world to repurpose Old Golf club names as Indy Pop bands (plural) or Micro brew beers (singular). The Spade Mashies Pitching Niblicks Wooden Cleeks The Baffie Spoons The Brassies  The Jiggers

15/ Full Metal Jacket. In collecting vintage American Crayons, the packaging is as interesting as the crayons inside. ACC was known for high quality wood boxes but they also devoted the same attention to manufacturing small steel cases to package and protect their crayons. Some of my favorites are the cases for Prang crayons — I especially like the variations on Old Faithful trademark including one in an art deco style that allowed you to see the crayons inside. This and other stories in my book Color Capital of the World. https://blogs.uakron.edu/.../color-capital-of-the-world