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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 8:01 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dstockhoff@verizon.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">On 10/26/2011 10:11 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> *From:* David Stockhoff <A href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dstockhoff@verizon.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net</A><BR><BR>> > As for his name, he is clearly mad and his shipmates referred to him <BR>> > as a “header” or head case. Due to a period of imposed political <BR>> > correctness, perhaps in the Machine Era, such names are no longer used.<BR><BR>> They didn't actually say "header," did they?</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">It is a common expression in Ireland. If you say “he’s a header” it will be understood as “he’s a head case”.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> Why would Wolfe use an Irish expression in his far future Byzantine/South America? I would need other examples of Irish slang associated with Hethor.</DIV></DIV></td></tr></table>