tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4665394315926336752024-03-13T16:51:19.648+00:00Like a GloveNames that fit like a gloveMichael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-82922543576322994412021-04-27T11:28:00.002+01:002021-04-27T11:28:58.008+01:00Rose fills the pots<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zbVqrXrcbik/YIfl5iYkLAI/AAAAAAAAEP0/g75Ljozyzl0Sdqd2fPPWbXgbe3gCg7PfACLcBGAsYHQ/IMG_5291.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zbVqrXrcbik/YIfl5iYkLAI/AAAAAAAAEP0/g75Ljozyzl0Sdqd2fPPWbXgbe3gCg7PfACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_5291.jpeg" width="480" /></a><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We were there on Friday. If I'd known she was there, I'd have asked to shake her by the hand. In a Covid-compliant manner, of course.</span></p>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-27803098693221333422012-02-11T14:42:00.001+00:002012-02-11T14:42:41.476+00:00Vickers galore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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The Revd Michael Vickers, who appeared on the <a href="http://aptronymics.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-name-fits-job.html" target="_blank">Today Programme</a> the other week, is vicar of <a href="http://www.stlukescranham.org/home-1" target="_blank">two churches</a>; that could well be why he has a plural surname. However it doesn't explain why he's not wearing a dog-collar; or two, even.</div>
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He's out-vicared by the Rt Rev <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Vickers" target="_blank">Michael Edwin Vickers</a>, who looked after many more than two congregations - he was Bishop of Colchester from 1988 to 1994.</div>
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And yet another <a href="http://www.potbelliesrfc.com/the-committee/rev-michael-vickers.html" target="_blank">Rev Michael Vickers</a> is the Club Missionary for the <a href="http://www.potbelliesrfc.com/" target="_blank">Pot Bellied Pigs RFC</a>, the club that puts the "Pink" back into Rugby.</div>
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As you can see, I googled for 'Rev Michael Vickers' - God knows what aptronymic glories await us under other first names. </div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-31832022990611602582012-02-11T14:14:00.000+00:002012-02-11T19:09:12.896+00:00When the name fits the job<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Gloves on the BBC! A </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9664000/9664697.stm" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">Today Programme item</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> from a few weeks back (scroll down the page for the audio clip), with John Hoyland, the New Scientist journalist and Nominative Determinism researcher (sorry, can't find a link to the web page he mentions), along with prime examples </span><a href="http://aptronymics.blogspot.com/2008/12/frances-crook.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">Frances Crook</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> and <a href="http://aptronymics.blogspot.com/2012/02/vickers-galore.html" target="_blank">Michael Vickers</a>. And plenty more tasty aptronyms, some of which will doubtless find their way here.</span>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-8841491746081460672012-02-11T13:27:00.002+00:002012-02-11T13:31:36.067+00:00Rayment's raiments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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Nigel Rayment is in the rag trade. He's a <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2011/07/11/" target="_blank">raiment</a> merchant - he sells raiments of all types and for all occasions. And for all shapes and sizes: <i>Sizes 8-28 with a vast range of plus sizes</i>.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-3880624420450702642012-01-12T10:44:00.001+00:002012-01-12T10:44:56.705+00:00Ye shall not round the corners of your heads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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"Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group have pleaded not guilty to charges of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16522281" target="_blank">beard- and hair-cutting attacks</a> within their community.<br /><br />They are accused over five incidents in which the beards and hair of Amish men and women were cut, an act particularly offensive in Amish culture.<br /><br />It is alleged that an internal religious dispute involving a group led by Samuel Mullet motivated the attacks."</div>
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For background on 'Bishop' Mullet, see <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/18/ohio-amish-beard-cutting-attack_n_1016620.html" target="_blank">Beard-Cutting Attacks Throw Spotlight On Amish Sect</a>. See also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish" target="_blank">Amish on Wikipedia</a>, and <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/ame/amish/index.htm" target="_blank">The Amish (1938)</a>.</div>
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And here's what a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_%28haircut%29" target="_blank">normal, non-sectarian, mullet</a> is, and <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mullet+haircut&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1134&bih=879&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kLcOT8LSL8ueOtXWhJUD&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQsAQ" target="_blank">what it looks like</a>.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-15621464087978987082011-11-23T16:21:00.001+00:002011-11-23T17:02:23.185+00:00It all Stacks up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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Then you can factor in his pension pot of £8m, after 18 years in the company, which is bringing him in some £700,000 - yes, seven hundred thousand pounds - per year in pension payments. That's £13,461.54 per week.</div>
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And what does a Head of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources" target="_blank">Human Resources</a> do, exactly, apart from sack people? Anyone sacked by Stack, and now qualifying for a State Pension, will be getting £5311.80. Per year.</div>
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Didn't Cadbury use to be a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8467833.stm" target="_blank">Quaker company</a>? With principles??</div>
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And if you're wondering how he's getting on now he's retired, Bob Stack is now making good use of his expertise and experience in negotiating salary packages - he's Chairman of the Remuneration Committee at both Sainsbury's and IMI.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-85183896161435455992011-11-06T22:52:00.001+00:002011-11-06T23:06:45.541+00:00Salt of the Earth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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Gardener Bob Salt tends to the grounds of Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28American_Standard%29/Matthew#5:13" target="_blank">Salt of the Earth</a>, that man (Matthew 5:13). Or, in even older English, '<a href="http://www.poetryclub.com.ua/metrs_poem.php?poem=13626" target="_blank">salt of the erthe</a>' (Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, line 2196).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">See the glorious original <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2011/nov/03/1#" target="_blank">Eyewitness photo</a> in the Guardian.</span></div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-8051035516299656892011-10-28T19:16:00.000+01:002011-10-28T19:16:57.641+01:00The Bishop that thinks he's a Cathedral<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/aug/19/bishop-london-richard-chartres" target="_blank">Richard Chartres</a> is the current Bishop of London. The current Bishop of <a href="http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/chartres-cathedral" target="_blank">Chartres</a> is called <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Pansard" target="_blank">Michel Pansard</a>, which is a pity. We think it would be nice if his name was 'Michel London' - or at the very least 'Londres'.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-70491107344432498252011-10-28T18:40:00.000+01:002011-10-28T18:40:09.838+01:00Roger is all sopping<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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On 31 August he swam across in 17 hours 51 minutes. At its narrowest, between Dover and Cap Gris Nez near Calais, the Channel is 34km (21 miles) wide, but looking at the <a href="http://www.openwaterpedia.com/images/9/98/RogerAllsop_A4.jpg" target="_blank">zigzag route</a> he took he must have covered twice that distance. As you can see from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqsjjcR1LqY" target="_blank">videoclip</a>, when he came out he was all <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/sopping" target="_blank">sopping</a>.</div>
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Sadly, <a href="http://www.malcolmsinger.co.uk/Malcolm_Singer/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Singer</a> MA (Cantab) is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, and a Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The one thing he doesn't appear to be is a singer.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-66777508523779132732011-10-15T12:26:00.004+01:002011-10-15T12:29:42.880+01:00Cash on costs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers" target="_blank">Brian Cash can put a figure</a> to the cost of Alabama's new immigration law: at least $100,000.</div>
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And behind this frivolous post, the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-families-trapped" target="_blank">harsh social and economic facts</a>: in Alabama, formerly the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_v._Alabama" target="_blank">heartland of white supremacy</a>, the administration is trying to get rid of thousands of Hispanic workers and their families. It seems old habits <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/07/01/notorious-alabama-politician-keynotes-white-supremacist-conference/" target="_blank">die hard</a>, or not at all. However, as Brian Cash's disappearing workers and rotting tomatoes show, the local economy depends on the immigrants. The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/alabama-immigration-law-appeal-justice-department" target="_blank">US government is challenging</a> the law.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-41765281852350478292011-10-15T11:48:00.000+01:002011-10-15T12:28:22.202+01:00Price on Prices<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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Bob Price, Chief Executive of the <a href="http://cideruk.com/" target="_blank">National Association of Cider Makers</a>, argues that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/13/higher-prices-heavy-drinkers" target="_blank">Higher prices won't deter heavy drinkers</a>. And he should know - in the cider industry, there aren't many higher Prices than Bob.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-76816028365525333902011-10-11T16:39:00.000+01:002011-10-15T12:51:19.263+01:00Scholar and egg-head<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-richard-scholar" target="_blank">Richard Scholar</a> is a man after my own heart - he's a language teacher, and also does good work for <a href="http://www.oxford-amnesty-lectures.org/" target="_blank">Amnesty International</a>. As you can see, he's well on the way to becoming a fully fledged <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead" target="_blank">egg-head</a>.<br />
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Tom Kitchin is, of course, a cook. So he spends his entire working life in his kitchen, which he even calls '<a href="http://www.thekitchin.com/kitchin/home" target="_blank">The Kitchin</a>'. </div>
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It's not a bad restaurant, apparently: "The Kitchin was recently awarded ’Best UK Restaurant 2011’ by Square Meal".<br />
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<a href="http://www.leparisien.fr/draveil-91210/essonne-une-meteorite-tombe-chez-mme-comette-08-10-2011-1644714.php" target="_blank">Une météorite tombe chez... Mme Comette !</a></div>
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"Son nom la prédestinait"</div>
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<a href="http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/insolite/draveil-une-meteorite-chez-mme-comette-145743.html" target="_blank">Une météorite chez Mme Comette !</a></div>
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"Un nom prédestiné"</div>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/10/comette-family-home-damaged-meteorite" target="_blank">Comette family home damaged by egg-sized meteorite</a></div>
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"When your name is Comette . . ." </div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-34331087032457363202011-09-19T23:49:00.000+01:002011-09-20T00:00:34.757+01:00Shulman indeed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/london/east-end_addresses.htm" target="_blank"><i>Synagogues in the East End and City of London</i></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>shul</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> = synagogue in Yiddish</span></div>
Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-40619330941744534172011-09-18T22:46:00.000+01:002011-10-15T12:52:22.839+01:00Couch on psychoanalysis<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Or should that be the other way round?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1999-15190-005" target="_blank">Therapeutic functions of the real relationship in psychoanalysis</a>.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">By Couch, Arthur S.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, Vol 54, 1999, 130-168.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Or you could try: <a href="http://www.thecjc.org/pdf/couch.pdf"><i>Anna Freud's Adult Psychoanalytic Technique</i></a> - but be careful, it's 20 pages.</span><br />
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Dan Saladino is a producer on the BBC Radio 4 <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnx3" target="_blank">Food Programme</a>. But it's not all salads for Dan. He is "vastly knowledgeable about the politics, psychology and philosophy of what and how people eat" (<a href="http://www.alibhai-brown.com/article.php?id=252" target="_blank">Yasmin Alibhai-Brown</a>).</div>
Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-75490215463929090062011-08-25T12:34:00.000+01:002011-09-18T22:49:48.546+01:00The Bean Counter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/biographies/bean.htm" target="_blank">Charlie Bean</a>, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England.</div>
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A classic '<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bean%20counter" target="_blank">bean-counter</a>' if ever there was one.</div>
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Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas<br />
<a href="http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=476" target="blank">Conference and Exhibition</a> dates: 24-26 Feb 2011<br />
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London<br />
Keynote speakers: Briony Campbell, Paul Preston, Laurie Lipton<br />
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Kindly sponsored by the <a href="http://bit.ly/dQPZeQ" target="blank">John Coffin Trust Fund</a> and the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London.</div>Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-27810760556266254552011-01-28T11:57:00.000+00:002011-01-28T11:57:47.083+00:00Paintin the Head of Art<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michalska/5395467740/" title="Isaac Newton (British Library) by michalska1, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michalska/5395519522/" title="Isaac Newton (British Library) 2 by michalska1, on Flickr"><img alt="Isaac Newton (British Library) 2" height="225" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5395519522_f5762c7908.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/26/elaine-paintin-obituary">Elaine Paintin</a> died a few days ago. Amongst her many contributions to British cultural life, she was the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/">British Library</a>'s head of art (1987-97), and trustee and director of the <a href="http://www.cartoonmuseum.org.whisky.webhoster.co.uk/site/">Cartoon Art Museum</a> (1998-2003). She commissioned the emblematic statue of Isaac Newton (by Eduardo Paolozzi), that is the focus of the courtyard to the Library - clearly a sculpture, but also without doubt a Paintin.Michael Shadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03769991041294693716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-466539431592633675.post-55699191124868576092011-01-27T15:09:00.001+00:002011-01-27T15:10:52.155+00:00Weather by Storm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kp0RpdBLbrU/TUGJJNuldiI/AAAAAAAAA1M/fBdNfw5D3cc/s1600/weather+200w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kp0RpdBLbrU/TUGJJNuldiI/AAAAAAAAA1M/fBdNfw5D3cc/s320/weather+200w.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Weather, by Storm Dunlop. Nothing more to be said.</span><br />
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