#MadeUpNames

@stevenbeard.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Mac forehand sounds like one of the names Bob Mortimer makes up on Would I Lie To You #WILTY #WinterOlympics #BigAir #MilanoCortina #MadeUpNames #WinterOlympics2026

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

9 months ago

“Exactly. Bargbeasts, Drikes, Scungledinks. You see one of them coming you don't hang around to see if its in a good mood. You run first and ask questions later, got it?” Bodkin caught Farringdon looking at him sideways. “What?” “It's just... what's with all the weird names? Bargbeasts? Drikes? Scungledinks? Skrawks? Who comes up with all this stuff?” Bodkin sighed. “Are you familiar with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?” “I've heard of it, yeah.” “Well in 1890 its author, Lewis Carroll, became mayor of the London Night Society after Joseph Assheton Fincher stepped down. It seems that once the Tiddlywinks money started rolling in he didn't need the yearly stipend anymore. It was Carroll who started naming everything, and by all accounts he had a lot of fun doing so. He always did like his funny names, what with his snarks and his jabberwocks and his jubjub birds. Getting to apply them to the real world was a chance he could not resist. “Anyway, after he died in 1898 his replacement, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tried to formalise things a bit more, give the ghosts proper names, but to no avail. Daft though they were the old names stuck, to the point where by the time Agatha Christie took over in 1920 a bunglewump was a bunglewump and there was nothing she could do about it.”

I wonder how a screen reader will deal with all this nonsense lol. #MadeUpNames

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