Bon, I think she wants the word for the other person in the namesake pair, not a word for the name itself.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 2:53:31 pm PDT #7221 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
bon bon - Apr 19, 2005 2:58:26 pm PDT #7222 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My understanding is that matronymic is the name. Matronym is the named.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 2:59:51 pm PDT #7223 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Patronym applies to the name, so I'd extrapolate matronym to the same relationship.
aurelia - Apr 19, 2005 3:01:27 pm PDT #7224 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hey, Aurelia, I was just thinking about you Friday! My 11-year-old is fascinated by stage lighting now. I was telling him about footlights and then I wondered -whatever happened to footlights, and when did they go out? When I was doing amateur theater as a teenager, we still used them.
Oooh, the history of stage lighting. When stages were lit with candles or oil lamps, the lights lined the edge of the stage because that was the closest they could get to the actors. Then came lenses and reflectors and electricity which meant the stage could be lit from further away. Then someone figured out that if they put the lights up over the audience they could make a more realistic looking picture. A much more detailed timeline can be found here [link] . It's a neat read just because things have changed so much, so quickly because of changes in technology.
Footlights still exist in some places for the same reason mom always cut the end off the ham before baking it. 'Cause that's how it was always done.
Have your son look in a mirror and use a flashlight to light his face from different angles. Light from below is spooky and unnatural because all the shadows are in the wrong places. Sometimes this can be useful in a show, but more often than not it isn't really the desired effect.
-t - Apr 19, 2005 3:02:38 pm PDT #7225 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How about eponym or protonym? [link]
Jessica - Apr 19, 2005 3:02:57 pm PDT #7226 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I received a jury summons about a month ago, except I served in 2003 and so shouldn't be eligible until 2007. I meant to fax in the certificate that says I already served, but I completely spaced on doing it until tonight. Problem is, I was supposed to call in last night to see if they needed me as a juror. How much trouble am I in?
Betsy HP - Apr 19, 2005 3:07:07 pm PDT #7227 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Oh, thank you, Aurelia!
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2005 3:08:23 pm PDT #7228 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Who is it really?
Emperor Palpatine, from Star Wars
I am SO glad that I wasn't the only one who had no idea what made that wikipedia entry funny.
signed,
there are only 3 Star Wars movies, and they were all released prior to the 1990s
DXMachina - Apr 19, 2005 3:09:35 pm PDT #7229 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
there are only 3 Star Wars movies, and they were all released prior to the 1990s
Except Palpatine was in one of them, too.
brenda m - Apr 19, 2005 3:11:15 pm PDT #7230 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And that Palpatine I'd have recognized.