A Holiday Wish… This girl's fucked anyway....

[Danny Mac]

Pougue, You just caused me to bust out loud laughing. Good show, ole chap!

 

[Ponder]

James: Can you tell the forum why you ignore my question and try to be friends
with the owner of this site?

 

[mjp]

I'm confused.

I thought planahea was William J. "Bill" Whitaker, Martin's boy. You can see here how close they were, Martin gave him gold stars:

Which only goes to show, you can take the man out of office supplies, but you can't take the office supplies out of the man.

 

[Otto jr]

[...]Shakespeare is credited with contributing more new words to the English language than any other single person - approx 2,000! Some of the many new words he invented to enhance the Elizabethan language and vocabulary are as follows:

Accused Addiction Amazement Arouse Assassinate Blushing Champion Circumstantial Compromise Courtship Countless Critic Dawn Epileptic Elbow Excitement Exposure Frugal Generous Gossip Hint Impartial Invulnerable Jaded Label Lonely Luggage Majestic Negotiate Obscene Premeditated Puke Scuffle Torture Tranquil Varied and Worthless.

This is amazing. Deserves a thread of its own.
I think that from the beginning Shakey's work was so embraced by the public that the words almost had to catch on and become part of the vocabulary.
He was an institution even during his lifetime. Almost like today with the N.Y. Times. If the Times uses a word or grammar repeatedly, it becomes a proper word or proper grammar.
The word assassins existed in Persian. Shakey may have been the first to Anglicize it. The Assassins were a group of hired killers in the mountains of Persia. They were called the Hash Eaters. In Persian this sounded like hesh-eshans.

Kerouak tried this making up of words, but his made up words are so non-sensical that I don't think they will ever catch on. When I first read him, though, I was so young that I looked up some of them in the dictionary and couldn't figure out why they weren't there.