July 17, 2006

If you have to ask...

Another example of the "names are destiny" phenomenon.

(Thanks to Thane for the link.)

Posted by Francis at 08:45 AM
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Does anyone have a hankering to see a short comedy about polyamory? (NSFW at all.) Here's "Polly Wally."

Posted by: Orange at July 17, 2006 06:54 PM

Well, that was...off-topic.

Posted by: Francis at July 18, 2006 12:35 AM

Yeah, I know, the poly thread was a few weeks ago (and crikey, it's now got spam comments appended to it—albeit mostly hapless spam comments without fruitful links).

Sorry 'bout that.

Posted by: Orange at July 18, 2006 10:39 AM

I think the Amigone funeral homes back home were the first example of wordplay in my life when I was say 6 and, on learning about death, realized that name was a bit odd when we'd drive by them.

I always wondered if they specialized in fake funerals or in resurrections or, say, zombification, to make the "amigone" name make more sense.

Posted by: Thomas at July 18, 2006 02:59 PM

Does Amigone rhyme with Antigone? As in Antigone Rising?

Posted by: RichM at July 18, 2006 10:20 PM

Antigone as in "Greek Tragedy" was what Orange was getting at, maybe.

Is this some sort of bletiquette gaffe or something, making references to the blog's past? Like if I mentioned time-cubes or promiscuous smurfs I would risk I would become a social pariah for a day?

Orange, I will never have a blog. But if I ever have one, I will welcome you there, and any allusion to past events.

I have no idea what that polyamory episode was really about.

Posted by: Ruby Dohler at July 19, 2006 11:49 AM

On a cross country trip we saw more than a few examples of mortuary wordplay. The two I remember most:

Somen and Bonin funeral home, platteville, wis.
('some' of course is Greek for body)

Cease funeral home park rapids, minn

Posted by: bluepoint at August 13, 2006 06:34 PM

correction: I googled and it is Bonin Soman Funeral home.

I think there are enough of these for a book.

Posted by: bluepoint at August 13, 2006 06:41 PM

even more funereal wordplay! re: "thanks to 'Thane' for the link"

'thanatos' is Greek for 'death'

Posted by: bluepoint at August 14, 2006 02:37 PM
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