07-06-2015, 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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Roy Rogers was devastated when a stray moggy took off with his latest pair of moccasins. Tonto quickly recovered the footwear & returned with the skin of the guilty feline saying“Pardon me Roy is the cat that chewed your new shoes?”
08-06-2015, 08:42 PM
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Digging plots, camping, Roy Rogers and Gaza's Elbow, have ye all lost the run of yourselves?I haven't went camping since I was a boy scout, before I left with the troop I always said a prayer to the patron saint of hikers and campers, Pope Pious the Tent.
08-06-2015, 09:02 PM
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I haven’t heard a ‘Seanachie’ in years, I thought they were all gone fineto no more so I was pleasantly surprised to see an old Seanachie in the pub we went to on Friday night in County Wexford, they tell a long old story studded with old sayings and funny incidents, very entertaining if you like traditional stuff and it’s done right, there was also a great ballad group there and male and female Irish dancers.Here’s a very brief history of the Seanachie, pronounced Shan-a-key.
“The Irish hold a great appreciation for the 'spoken word' and the use of language and have created a unique and beautifully poetic oral literature.
In ancient Celtic society bards held a position of esteem, second only to kings. Bards memorized vast amounts of poetry which they performed live, and their poems and songs were often the only historical record available. Some may consider them to be historians.
Bards evolved into storytellers called 'seanachies' who wandered from town to town.*In this informal way, an ancient oral literary tradition continued into modern times.*
The seanachie is an important link in Celtic/Irish cultural heritage and continues to play a dominant role in the oral tradition, bringing old stories to life for modern day listeners”
09-06-2015, 12:00 PM
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Thank you Gumbud.I'll try to put one or two Seanachie stories together when I get the time. Something completely different now.
Interesting the amount of Doctors with diseases named after them, I could never decide whether that was a compliment or an insult, if I was one of those Doctors that is, but human nature being what it is fame and fortune comes first I suppose.
I did have an unusual complaint meself many years ago, my right Jaw turned a light green colour and was very painful when I spoke or ate, I went to my local Doctor and he was baffled, hadn’t a clue what it was and neither had the specialist he sent me to, they looked up all the medical books they could but no luck. (no Google back then) There was nothing anyone could do about it so I just named it ‘Jems Jaw’ and got on with my life, it’s not easy living with Jems Jaw I can tell you but I offered it all up for my sins.
One day I was minding my young 5 year old niece, she asked me for an apple and I sliced a ‘Granny Smith’ apple in half and gave her half, we were eating the apple together in the garden when she accidentally fell over in my direction and the half apple brushed off my face, I took a tissue and wiped my jaw, when I went to look in the mirror the green tint has vanished and the pain was gone, Newton ain't the only one who can mess with apples you know, I never claimed fame for discovering a cure for Jems Jaw, but if you ever happen to be inflicted with this distressing condition you now know what to do, rub a Granny smith apple over your Jaw.
Here’s a small sample of names linked to diseases, didn’t see Leonard Lemmington listed, all those with ‘Lemmington’s Lip’ will be disappointed I’m sure, my hearts bleeds for anyone with the dreaded Lemmingtons Lip.
Wikipedia.
Some examples of autoeponyms include:
• Huntington's disease: Dr George Huntington diagnosed himself and his father and grandfather with this autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease.[6]
• Jones fracture: Dr Robert Jones described this break in his foot behind the fifth toe in 1902, broken while dancing.[7]
• The Prausnitz–Küstner test: In 1921, Prausnitz injected Dr. Küstner's blood into himself to show that the allergic reaction to fish Küstner suffered from had been transferred.[8]
• Rickettsia: In 1906, Howard Ricketts discovered that the bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is carried by a tick. He injected himself with the pathogen. Ricketts died in 1909 while investigating typhus (Rickettsia prowazakii) in Mexico City.[9]
• Thomsen's disease: An autosomal dominant myotonia of voluntary muscles described by Julius Thomsen about himself and his family members.[10]
• Carrion's disease: Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión inoculated himself with Bartonella bacilliformis in 1885 to prove the link to this disease, characterized by "oroya fever." He is now regarded as a national hero.[11]
• Trousseau's sign of malignancy: Dr Armand Trousseau described in the 1860s this clinical sign of hypercoaguable states showing as migratory thrombophlebitis. Late in life, Trousseau diagnosed himself before he died of gastric cancer.[12]
• Pirogov embalming technique: Dr. Nikolay Pirogov himself was preserved by methods he developed and his body is still on display in a room temperature glass-lid coffin in the Ukraine.[
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