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Offline s2srea

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« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2011, 06:08:44 PM »
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    • I'm drinking Jasmine Green Pearl tea now.. mmmmm!
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    Offline Sigismund

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    « Reply #16 on: August 05, 2011, 09:37:02 PM »
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    • Quote from: Raoul76
    '76 was the year I was born.  I was going to be named Raoul until my grandpa, at the last minute, suggested Mike.  I always found this funny, since the name Raoul seems like the worst choice possible for me.  I'm a pale skinny half-Polock rather than a swarthy Super Mario.  

    However, I have recently grown a kind of conquistador goatee and I'm looking pretty "Raoul."  

    Man of the West, are you Polish or Russian?  You are extremely Eastern European looking at least from what I can see in the small picture.  


    Gee, I have always assumed that you look like St. Vincent de Paul.
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    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    « Reply #17 on: August 05, 2011, 09:41:50 PM »
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    • Sigismund was the only Unitarian king in history. I was in the mood for a screen name completely antithetical to myself.  Being neither a Unitarian (perish the thought) or a king (alas) it seemed to fit the bill.
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    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

    Offline MyrnaM

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    « Reply #18 on: August 05, 2011, 09:44:56 PM »
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    • My name is my name, refuse to use a moniker.
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    « Reply #19 on: August 05, 2011, 09:45:14 PM »
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    • Lybus is a name that i made up completely. It has no real meaning.

    However, if I could change my name, I would make it "Joyeuse", the name of Charlemagne's sword. I always wondered why he called his sword "Joyful."
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    In regards to being a responsible man, would it be interesting to learn, after six years of accuмulating all the wisdom you could, that you had it right all alon

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    « Reply #20 on: August 05, 2011, 11:43:43 PM »
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    • Quote from: s2srea
    Okay, your turn. :popcorn:


    Excellent topic!

     I have commented on the posts of the St. Lawrence Press Blog as "Xenophobic hobbledehoy," a name under which I had intended to register at CathInfo, but it was too long I reckon. So I just chose the "hobbledehoy" part.

    "Hobbledehoy" is defined a young man bereft of social grace and composure. So the reference is autobiographical.  :smirk:

    I will allow the scholar Michael Quinion to explain the meaning and history of this word:

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    You will not find a better description of the type than in Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington: “Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy”.

    But where the world found it is far from clear. The word seems to have been around at least since the sixteenth century, but was long distinguished by seeming never to be written the same way twice. It may well be related to Hoberdidance or Hobbididance, which was the name of a malevolent sprite associated with the Morris dance (and whose name is from Hob, an old name for the Devil; nothing to do with hobbits). It may also be linked to hobidy-booby, an old English dialect word for a scarecrow. The modern spelling seems to be the result of popular etymology, which has changed a puzzling word into something that looks as though it might make more sense.


    When I registered here as "Hobbledehoy" this past February, I had forgotten that I had registered before as "Glastonbury" in the first days of CathInfo. I had published blog posts under that name before, and I posted under the name "Glastonbury_thorn" on FE only to leave just before Vox implemented her anti-sede policy.

     :detective:
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    « Reply #21 on: August 06, 2011, 12:16:24 AM »
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    • PartyIsOver221 = my patron saint Padre Pio and 221 is my date of baptism


    And cause the party [of sin and worldly decadence, etc] is over once Padre Pio comes!!!
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    « Reply #22 on: August 06, 2011, 05:04:32 AM »
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    • Mine comes from my birth certificate.
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    « Reply #23 on: August 06, 2011, 10:15:38 AM »
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    « Reply #24 on: August 06, 2011, 10:33:03 AM »
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    • Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.
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    « Reply #25 on: August 06, 2011, 10:42:46 AM »
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    • Archbishop Fenelon wrote Les aventures de Télémaque, which is where I got the name at fisheaters.

    I thought it was too pagan sounding, so I took the name of Pope St. Telesphorus after seeing his feast in the bulletin.
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    « Reply #26 on: August 06, 2011, 10:55:46 AM »
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    • Quote from: Augstine Baker
    Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.


    Sounds like an interesting figure, a scholar and mystic. Why "Augstine", though? Initially a typo, but you rolled with it?

    Graham is my real name. According to the internet, it means "gravel home" or "gray home". But according to a personalized coaster I got for my birthday, it means "he who comes from the gray place".

    Coaster > internet.
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    « Reply #27 on: August 06, 2011, 11:35:42 AM »
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    • For what it's worth, Evensong is my time of life, as in the signature, and the prayer/poem is from Angelus Press 1962 Missal, p.64.
    Allso, it's just a lovely time of day ...
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    "At the evening of life, you will be examined in love. Learn to love as God desires to be loved and abandon your own ways of acting."   Saint John of the Cross

    From Evensong:
    "The day is done, its hours have run;
    And Thou hast taken care of all
    The

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    « Reply #28 on: August 06, 2011, 12:52:43 PM »
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    • Quote from: Telesphorus
    Archbishop Fenelon wrote Les aventures de Télémaque, which is where I got the name at fisheaters.

    I thought it was too pagan sounding, so I took the name of Pope St. Telesphorus after seeing his feast in the bulletin.


    Didn't Pope St. Telesporus give Easter celebrated on Sunday (instead of Passover)?
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    « Reply #29 on: August 06, 2011, 02:46:33 PM »
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    • Quote from: Graham
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    Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.


    Sounds like an interesting figure, a scholar and mystic. Why "Augstine", though? Initially a typo, but you rolled with it?

    Graham is my real name. According to the internet, it means "gravel home" or "gray home". But according to a personalized coaster I got for my birthday, it means "he who comes from the gray place".

    Coaster > internet.


    Like I said, I was drunk one night and spilled some Louis Qtrzze on the keyboard and messed up when I was entering the name.

    I just rolled with it.

    He wasn't a great scholar, probably a mid-range academic figure that we'd never have heard of had it not been for the Queen and her father murdering all the Catholic Scholars in the land.  

    He was active in London and various parts of England, living fairly openly as a Catholic religious, making converts and generally doing good work.

    Like I said, he was an ordinary man who got into the history books because he lived a very mild-mannered approach to the Catholic Faith in very violent times.

    Ironic, I guess.

    He was salt of the earth and a very decent man.  I think his life should be familiar to a lot of modern people, and his approach, although largely untried would be very useful for people living in a protestant country like ours.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker
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