Must one be nowned before they are renowned?

In response to last week’s question,  “Must one be nowned before they are renowned?”, my dad’s beach buddy Bob wrote, “Initially only ‘nowed and then’ until the ultimate prize, the recognition by everyone in the trailer park.”  My birthday bud Jon (and not his more refined wife Ruth) added, “that only works if you "verbalize" the word "nowned."

My friend Swany suggested, “I think it's referred to as prenowned,” to which my poster-making friend Chris concluded, “not unless they want to be and/or their press secretary says it’s OK.”

My sailing friend Kurt  replied, “The short answer is yes.  You must be known for good or bad before you can be famous for it.”

My friend Richard,  recalling similar Hmmm questions, explained, “This is one of those odd English words that appears to be a variant of an unknown or unclear base word, along “gruntled” (“to put in a good humor”), which was “back-formulated” from disgruntle. In other words, it was made up after the fact!”

Richard continued, “You can be discombobulated, which means “confused.” However, you cannot be combobulated, which presumably would be the state of having one’s ‘stuff’ together. Of course, such a state is pretty rare anyway, so the fact that the word combobulate doesn’t exist is easily understandable, as it would almost never be used.”

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:

Is a clear conscience the sign of a fuzzy memory?

Live well...laugh often and heartily…. have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!

Hal

Congrats to my TAG colleague Andy for completing his 2^nd marathon and proving that the first one wasn’t a fluke.  It is proof what a person can do in the quest of a clear goal.

Is there a difference between a leprechaun and a munchkin?

In response to last week’s question,  “Is there a difference between a leprechaun and a munchkin?”, my birthday bud Jon concluded, “a good agent” while my friend Swany explained, “about 6 inches.”

My engineering friend Steve observed, “Aside from the Irish vs Oz heritage, the munchkins are in the lollipop guild, so they're unionized.”  My videographer friend Ivan shared, “When a leprechaun eats a munchkin, Duncan Donuts earns a dollar. When a munchkin eats a leprechaun, Dorothy gets jealous and Turner Broadcasting gets fined by the FCC.”

My friend Royce explained, “Leprechauns are from Ireland, talk funny, and drink a lot of Guinness and play tricks while the Munchkins are from CA via the Land of OZ. However, rumor has it that some munchkins work at a chocolate factory and call themselves Ommpas.  My sailing friend Mike expounded, “Munchkins come in boxes of 25 or 50, all varieties.  Leprechauns drink your beer and end up green.  The important ones, however, are the (orange) Oompah Loompahs…..their color makes them easy to see in the dark. ”

My dad’s beach buddy Bob wrote, “Only one is edible...the other is enviable.”  My friend Addie replied, “You'll never find glazed chocolate leprechauns to dunk in your coffee (the drinking coffee, as opposed to last week's subject)!”  And my cycling friend Ted said the difference is “about ten shots of Baileys and 2 pints of Guinness.”

My friend Richard and Bruce called out, “A leprechaun is a little, magical, mischievous Irish guy who sells a breakfast cereal comprising primarily of sugar and oddly-shaped, colorful marshmallows. A munchkin is the dough from the doughnut holes sold by Dunkin Donuts.”

My colleague Kosol explained, “Leprechauns are weird and scary.  They walk around with their shillelaghs and hide their gold never to find the infamous four leaf clover.  I have been searching for this clover since my childhood years and have not yet to find one.   Leprechauns are fictitious as where a munchkin is tangible.  So I no longer have the desire to pursue this mythical Leprechaun and the four leaf clover.  However Munchkins I can embrace from dunkin donuts, hehe.  I  can call my son a cute little munchkin and it will sound cute,  it just wouldn't sound right calling him a my cute little leprechaun, the cuteness factor is just not there.

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:

Must one be nowned before they are renowned?  (From my friend Ted)

Live well...laugh often and heartily…. have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!

Hal

The Spring Equinox is coming.  Wishing y’all a happy Spring, which starts at 1:14am ET on Mar 20.

Is coffee the person upon whom one coughs?

In response to last week’s question,  “Is coffee the person upon whom one coughs?”, my friend countered, “I believe a coffee is someone who is in coffin.  I don’t know whether this includes vampires, who get out of their coffins periodically (or so we are led to believe in movies and really bad TV shows filmed in ATL).

My dad’s beach buddy Bob thought, “Depends on how ugly she is.”

My friend also countered, “No, it’s a new fundraiser…. a fee you are charged when you coff.”

My cycling friend Ted shared, “My mother always said a "Shlemiel" is one who spills his soup in a restaurant, and a "Shlemozel"  is the poor guy that he spills it on. By the same logic, a Coffee( Coughee) would be the recipient of ones airborne tussis pathogens (a new medical definition –coffee!)

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:

Is there a difference between a leprechaun and a munchkin?             

Live well...laugh often and heartily…. have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!

Hal

If you are born on Feb 29th, when do you celebrate your birthday each year?

In response to last week’s question,  “If you are born on Feb 29th, when do you celebrate your birthday each year?”, my friend Richard suggested, “3 out of every 4 years, those people take the advice of Walt Disney and celebrate a “very merry un-birthday”!  They can also say with confidence “I’m younger than I look”.”

My video and sailing friend Jodie observed, “That's only an issue when you're under 35. After that, we're happy to skip a few years.”  My DISH friend Mark confirmed this, “I have a good friend born on Feb 29th who celebrated on the 28th until her 21st birthday and on the Mar 1st until she was 35. After her 35th birthday, she then opted to acknowledge an age increase only on Feb 29th going forward. It's been a running joke for years. Although we met in 3rd grade, I'm 55 and she's about to turn 40. Some girls have all the luck.”  

My sailing friend Kurt agreed, “Just once every four years, that is one way to stay young.”  My cycling friend Ted responded, “You’re just aging at 1/4th the rate!! This would make me a 12 yr old!”

My dad’s beach buddy Bob sympathized with quadrennial celebrants, “When you go to renew your driver’s license, they can't find the date on the calendar.”

Please share your thoughts about "things that make you go 'Hmmm' “:

Is coffee a the person upon whom one coughs?

Live well...laugh often and heartily…. have a good week and never regret anything that made you smile!

Hal

A detailed answer to Feb 29 from the book Know It All:  What you celebrate on your birthday isn't the annual arrival of your birth date; it's the fact that you're one year older. One year = one complete revolution by the earth around the sun = 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. To figure the right day to celebrate your birthday, you add 365 and one-quarter days to the hour of your birth. Suppose you were born February 29, 1972 at 10 PM. Then 365 and one-quarter days went by and behold, the first anniversary of your birth hour came on March 1, 1973, at about 4 AM.

The second and third anniversaries also fell on March 1, at 10 AM and 4 PM respectively. Comes year four (1976), and your anniversary is back where it started, February 29 at 10 PM.

Things would have worked out differently if you'd been born at 4 AM on leap day. Your first, second, and third birth-hour anniversaries would have occurred on February 28 at 10 AM, 4 PM, and 10 PM, respectively. If you'd been born at 4 PM, your first anniversary would fall on February 28 but your second and third on March 1. What happens for leap-day babies born at other hours is left as an exercise for the student.

The real problem isn't leap-day people, it's those smug non-leap-day babies who think all they've got to do to be in synch with the cosmos is celebrate their birthdays on the same date every year. Not a chance, Lance.

If you were born February 28, 1972, at 4 AM, you were supposed to celebrate all your non-leap-year birthdays on February 27. Did you? Of course not. Before you were out of diapers you were shaking down the 'rents for gifts under false pretenses. Considering how today's youth start out, it's no wonder so many come to no good.

But look on the bright side. The year 2000, thank Jah, will be a normal leap year. Years divisible by 100 usually aren't. (The rule is: year divisible by 100, no leap year unless also divisible by 400, in which case leap year. It's to keep the calendar lined up with the solar system. Trust Uncle Cecil.) 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1216/when-do-leap-day-babies-celebrate-their-birthdays