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Originally Posted by RM
That would be fine and dandy except my last name is pronounced Mason. The 'e' is silent. Other examples of names/words with silent e's are Ronald Reagan, Shea Stadium, and great. I've struggled with this my entire life. It's a curse of some sort.
I'm having a hard time with the latest quizzers.
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Sorry about the name mispronunciation, Ron. You were almost immortalized in song, er...not quite, but I blew it on your last name. Such are the limits of the written word for the poorly vetted in researching such basics as promunciation ! Thankfully by letting me know, I will put your name to rights in context if I can, if not you'll know I tried. Then all I'll have to do is rhyming, illiteration, content, just about everything is substandard, except one thing, now that I think about it, make it
two, Char's nickname, and the beautiful song it came from.
Maybe I should study
Sun Tzu and his
Art of War, or better yet, the non-combative, serenity of T'ai Chi, and find my center, balanced T'ai/Chi, (however, I think my CG is in my spare tire at my belly..lol..a least follow the Zen path of the leaf, floating in water....and do
Haiku instead ! All I remember from elementary school on Haiku is that I need 17 syllables, that don't rhyme, or even resemble poetry, but does have meaning, or imagery. I will become one, with my Chi ! and all of that Zen, er....sumpin' like that..
Also, in what way are you having a hard time with the current (list of 11) quizzer clues, Ron ? I would appreciate any advice as to how to make the quizzers more fun, primarily, but please do tell me in what way, assuming other than just they are too hard ? The previous 10 were solved- all in a bit less than 6 hours, as I recall, and I
did consciously make these, save for a few, a bit harder, to attempt to restore balance of too easy/too hard.
Is that what you are speaking of, Ron ? I'll be hapy to change that in the next list, and give some strong clues to add to the 2nd clues up in the current list. Its cool- fire away; I won't take offense. Any and all constructive criticism is welcome,
despite some thin sklin I have exhibited over the last eight months; but without unneccessary explanation, I think most of you understand where it came from.
The Holiday Poem, well, shall we say I was not born to be a wandering minstrel-cum-singer/songwriter,
or poet ! I'm running out of things to work with here....lol . No realy, I
am sorry for the mispronunciation, or more precisely, the assumption thereof by virtue of assuming your name to rhyme ! I'll find a way to re-write it !
And what-with the life-long mispronunciation you've endured, sounds exactly like the kind of flub I stick my foot in mouth over; please pardon my presumtion of the way it is said. Even a sore spot for you to boot ! Oh man, I am going down in flames here. Can you forgive this ole' mapper who has grown weary and not-so-wise, I feel much amazed, but I still
do have a few good tales to unwind...sometime, in some thread..., I think I heard it stir.....lol.
Thank you for letting me know, Ron. "Onward, McDuff !", as my Dad used to say to me on the trail up to the climb; at around 54 - he could out-hike/out-climb me at 19 ! What a guy.... and I worked out 3-4x/week, and had gone to a year long Climbing School ! And he said with regard to what was apparently some older adage that I've even heard in movies and read in books a few times - "Work-out ? Jog ? What 'working-out' - I'm an Engineer ! I don't have
time or the inclination to 'work -out' !
Ron, you'd have liked him. A man of few words; when he did speak, anyone with one bit of sense listened.
A man of sound wind and limb, and a razor-sharp, virtually unparalleled mind; a solid gold heart, and a life paradigm of unwavering ethics, compassion, dedication, and self-discipline. For those reasons and more, it was a very, very hard thing to watch him physically succumb to Parkinson's as he did, and watch what remained throughout - a magnificent man, succumb physically and verbally to Parkinson's. But, I never saw even one iota of the 'spark' flag in those shining eyes full of whit and wisdom, a veritable genius in his own right.
He retained his strength in the form of his admirable values and no matter what he perceived as the wavering mores of the times, he remained unflappable, and strong in his own sterling values and ethics; stolid, in the best sense of the word - dedication as a truly magnificent
gignere. As we
all will in verying amounts and ways, I truly will miss two of the closest people in my life this Christmas. Having allready gone badly off-thread on a non-sequiter from 'onward, McDuff' to a mini homage to Dad; I'll not make the mistake and engage in the poor taste of
further excess and impertinance here on my most obvious loss right now, for this Christmas, unless it comes up in context in another post, likely in another thread, if that, to truly serve what needs to be said, and is still forming in my mind.
I'll fix'er Ron. Thanks for letting me know kindly as you did. And if you made it this far; thank you for kindly reading such thoughts as I ought keep to myself, at least in corfid. We all have enough to deal with !
I'll address Q242 in a seperate post here, to at least give the possible impression of not babblibng to much in one thread..... hah! he says.