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-Z- (z@gundam.com)
Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:43:08 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org [mailto:owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org]On
> Behalf Of Lim Jyue
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 03:36
> To: gundam@aeug.org
> Subject: RE: [gundam] OT fun
>
>
> At 20:40 11/09/2000 -0800, -Z- wrote:
> >I normally use three names, not just two, but my first and last name yielded
> >Fortuitous Rhinoceros.
>
> Hmm.. you are sort of hard to bulge on certain points... =)
Only when I charge. Fortuitously, of course.
> >"Jim Lyue" resulted in Humongous Sea-Lion.
>
> I nearly died laughing seeing this. =)
>
> But my actual Last Name is Lim, not Jim.. So the sequence should be
> Jyue Lim, giving: Crossbow Sea-Lion. Cuute. =)
Sorry 'bout that. I seem to have made a Spoonerism there, transposing the first
letters of your two names -- Jim Lyue instead of Lim Jyue.
The Reverend William A. Spooner was an English clergyman and educator notorious
for mixing words up in this fashion, saying things like "the tons of soil" when
he meant to say "the sons of toil" -- although the transposition has to make
actual, sensible words to be properly called a Spoonerism. My favorite is from
a newspaperman who quoted a "high White Horse souse" when he meant a "high White
House source".... (White Horse was an actual brand of whiskey at the time.)
-Z-
(AKA "Lucky")
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