Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov

According to Norwegian site VG Nett, bus driver Andreas Jankov has formally changed his name to Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov. "I wanted to show that it is possible to be serious and at the same time take the name you like," said the film enthusiast. "I wanted to see how far I could take it with respect to the number of names. I started thinking about this three years ago and it was approved in January this year." Apparently, he's had his passport and bank card reissued, but the name was too long so he dropped "Highlander."

- Julius is an homage to the famous chimp at the Kristiansand Zoo
- 'Arn' is a Swedish knight movie
- Elessar and Gimli are from 'Lord of the Rings'
- 'MacGyver', just the greatest Richard Dean Anderson show ever!
- 'Highlander' could refer to either the movie or TV show
- Chewbacka (aka Chewbacca) is from 'Star Wars'

the Word for Monday

Ostrobogulous

The word is weird not only because it looks strange and is rather rare but because it can refer to something weird (or a strange, bizarre or generally unusual happening). To increase its peculiarity, it can also mean something mildly risqué, indecent or pornographic.

“Ostrobogulous” was Vickybird’s favourite word. It stood for anything from the bawdy to the slightly off-colour. Any double entendre that might otherwise have escaped his audience was prefaced by, “if you will pardon the ostrobogulosity”.

Magic my Youth, by Arthur Calder-Marshall, 1951.

It was coined by Victor Neuburg (Vickybird in the quotation), a gay British Jewish poet and writer and a close friend of the occultist Aleister Crowley, whose sexual magic practices he helped develop.

Neuburg said that the word was formed, highly irregularly as you might expect, from Greek ostro, rich, plus English bog, dirt, from the schoolboy slang sense of the toilet, and ending in Latin ulus, full of. So “full of rich dirt”. The Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t agree, arguing that the first part is from the adjective oestrous. But we ought to let Victor Neuburg have the last word, as it was his creation, even though he was a bit shaky on his etymology — the Greek word was ostreon, a type of mollusc (it’s the source, via Latin, of English oyster) that was harvested to obtain a rare and expensive purple dye, hence figuratively something rich.

Another meaning of ostrobogulous turns up occasionally.

I started out making toys because it was something I could do with no money, an artistic family and a Victorian sewing machine. In the evenings I made “ostrobogulous” toys, a term my mother used to mean harmlessly mischievous, and sold them in Heal’s, where I worked by day.

The Times, 8 Nov. 2003.

This matches a sense known to reader Graham Hill: “When I was at secondary school in the late 1960s ostrobogulous was used as an alternative name for a gonk.” (For those too young to remember, or who live in a country in which they never caught on, a gonk was a small furry soft toy, popular at the time.)

Ostrobogulous is a favourite of people who collect interestingly weird words. A notable appearance, in July 2009, was in the Daily Mail, a British family paper which might have looked askance at it had its editors known of its indecorous antecedents. It was quoted as the favourite word of Professor Christian Kay, who worked for 42 years on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.

the Joke for Monday

Have you ever wondered where and how

yodeling began? Many years ago a man

was traveling through the mountains of

Switzerland.Nightfall was rapidly approaching

and he had nowhere to sleep. He went up

to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he

could spend the night.The farmer told him that

he could sleep in the barn.As the story goes,

the farmer's daughter asked her father,

'Who is that man going into the barn?'

'That fellow traveling through,'said the farmer.

'needs a place to stay for the night so I told 

him he could sleep in the barn.'The daughter 

said,'Perhaps he is hungry.'So she prepared him

a plate of food for him and then took it out to

the barn.About an hour later,the daughter returned.

Her clothing disheveled and straw in her hair.

Straight up to bed she went.The farmer's wife was

very observant.She then suggested that perhaps the 

man was thirsty.So she fetched a bottle of wine,

took it out to the barn and she too did not return

for an hour.Her clothing was askew, her blouse 

buttoned incorrectly.She also headed straight to bed.

The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got 

up and continued on his journey,waving to the farmer 

as he left.When the daughter awoke and learned that 

the visitor was gone,she broke into tears.'How could 

he leave without even saying goodbye,'she cried.'We 

made such passionate love last night!''What?'shouted 

the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking 

for the man,who by now was halfway up the mountain. 

The farmer screamed up at him,'I'm going to get you! 

You had sex with my daughter!'The man looked back down

from the mountainside,cupped his hand next to his mouth

and yelled out.....'LAIDTHEOLAIDEETOO!' 

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the Word for Sunday

DIGAMY

A second marriage after the death or divorce of a previous spouse.

Perhaps those few people who have come across it believe it is just another term for bigamy (a sense the word could indeed once have had) or perhaps the ease with which the two words can be confused led to the less common one dropping out of casual use. It does appear on rare occasions in academic works. The word comes directly from Latin digamia, with the same sense, which in turn derives from Greek; its first recorded appearance was in 1635. An alternative that once had the same sense is deuterogamy, though this is now equally defunct.

the Joke for Sunday

The 98 year old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink but she refused. Then one of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen. Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened and poured a generous amount into the warm milk. Back at Mother Superior s bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank a little, then a little more and before they knew it, she had drunk the whole glass down to the last drop. Mother, the nuns asked with earnest, please give us some wisdom before you die.
She raised herself up in bed and with a pious look on her face said, "Don't sell that cow."

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