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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,<BR>
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Not sure if this has been posted before; I couldn't find it in the archives.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Check out the third definition of Jonah (from which Jonas is derived) as given below:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jonah">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jonah</A></FONT>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Jonah</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">A male<U> </U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">given name </wiki/given_name></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(Biblical) A book of the</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Old Testament </wiki/Old_Testament></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> and the</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Hebrew </wiki/Hebrew></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Tanakh </wiki/Tanakh></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(nautical,</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">slang </wiki/Appendix:Glossary></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">) A person who brings a ship</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">bad </wiki/bad></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">luck </wiki/luck></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(</FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">slang </wiki/Appendix:Glossary></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">jinx </wiki/jinx></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I wonder if crash landing a space ship after centuries adrift in time and space could be considered bad enough luck to qualify!</FONT></P>
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