Hangin' Out - in Outter Space

   
     "Hang" is a 13th century verb "to suspend." Further on in the 15th century its a noun for "a curtain; sling."
   
      Furthermore, to be suspended in one's thoughts is a psychological fixation known as a “hang up”. But one can also “hang-up” the phone and have a "hang-nail".

       Yet further, we can hang someone for a lynching and completely 180º from that violent action we have a craftsman who learns a new skill by “getting the hang of it.” And, if your hot to trot - try this little diddy a carpenter once told me:

its all about the angle of the dangle,
relative to the heat of the meat,
causing the size of the rise,
and the mass of the ass,
to expand all dimensions of extension.
Thus, the throb of the knob,
is proportional to the bootie of the cutie..... 

    Which could lead us to assume this fellow is either a consumer of nasal spray Viagra (a plain dick-head) or he is possibly “well hung”.

     Opposite once again, we have“hang-dog,” a despicable person. Of which you may be if your go the Federal Courts and the jury cannot decide about your crime so they are a “hang jury” at a standstill.    
     But innocently kids “hang around”, "hang out",  and in England sometimes “hang an arse.” Also, there's “hang fire,” hang-loose, and let it "all hang out", man.

    But to end on this odd etymology i will say two things: Hang (pronounced 'hong') is the name of a Vietnamese friend of mine and hang is also a modern sound instrument from Sweden (the hang drum) which is basically a 4th dimensional inspirational form of alien technology passed down to us sub-consciously and subliminally in musical form.

Really, look at that thing!

Now for the "Poop"

    I really wanted to title this post "The Nitty Gritty" but after looking up that phrase it was not all that much worthwhile for a meaningful beginning. Being not much more than a reference to Jazz players who tweaked this lingo from "finely ground corn". Thus we may have heard Fats Waller shout out a hundred years ago, "Hey Tuba Skinny, what's the nitty-gritty today?!"

    POOP, however not only an ignoble eye-catching (and fly catching) grand title, but also a fun etymology. So lets get started!


Poop - "the stern of a ship" where the steering of gears would maneuver the vessel. Recently becoming a military term regarding the necessary facts needed to command and captain the ship. So poop means "up-to-date-information" and much like the nitty-gritty you can say, "give me the poop, please".

Desire - an Old French phrase de sidere, "from the stars”

Youngster - "young-star"

Sky - is a simple Norse word meaning "a cloud". How's that for a paradox.
(May i remind you all of a previous post about "clouds" which literally means "rocks")

Cathedral -from kata-hedra: “the down face of a geometric solid”
 
Geek - "a croaking sideshow freak"
  
Ambulance - “walking (hospital)"

Bizarre - "handsome, brave," and as EtymologyOnline insightfully comments that it is perhaps from Basque bizar meaning, "a beard" because the history of bearded Spanish soldiers making a strange impression on the French to the point of influencing the development of this word.

Lazarus - Hebrew for “God has helped”



F.U.C.K. – well the rumors about this take on English's most popular four-lettered word are more interesting than the facts. Legend goes that it was an accronym describing the Biblical wisdom a person would possess for being intimate with another and thus, “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”. . . . F U C K.

Horizon - "a bounding circle"

Graffit - "to scribble" (originating from "ancient wall inscriptions found in the ruins of Pompeii!")

Mustard - "new wine"

Mayonnaise - named in recognition of Mahon, seaport capital of island of Minorca, captured by France 1756 after the defeat of the British defending fleet in the Seven Years' War.


Peewee - "a small marble"

Further acronym speculations about the etymology of NEWS: "north, east, west, and south"



Colossus - unknown in origin however first used by Herodotus when describing giant Egyptian statues.

Astronaut - a "star sailor"


Demiurge - "public worker"

Attitude: used "originally in 17th century as a technical term in art for the posture of a figure in a statue or painting; later generalized to "a posture of the body supposed to imply some mental state”.(EtymologyOnline.com)




To close this entry, here is a most perplexing word humour of which i don't know what to make because its referenced in a few cultures all with similarly strange meanings.
Middle English for "fluid or juice of an animal or plant," or Latin for "body moisture".

In ancient and medieval physiology, "any of the four body fluids" (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile) whose relative proportions were thought to determine state of mind. This led to a sense of "mood, temporary state of mind," first recorded 1520's.
(EtyologyOnline.com).


OkiDoki, stay healthy my friends. Be happy. And don't wet yourselves with too much humorous laughter. 

Hope you enjoyed the poop.
See you on the far side in the sky.

Copacetic Mountain Dew!

Thuggery - from the Hindu word thugee meaning "a religious system of assassination practiced by the Thugs."

Fellow - a “money lay”

Aldebaran - Arabic meaning "the follower (of the Pleiades)"

Copacetic - Hebrew word meaning "all with justice"

Mountain dew - "inferior whiskey"

Gigolo - "dance hall woman"

Pagoda - "divine temple of the idols"

Ziggurat -  "to be high"

Paradise - “a walled enclosure”

Jupiter - "Father Jove" (aka JOVIAL)

Golem - shapeless mass (hump of clay brought to life)

Jubilee - "ram’s horn"

Demiurge - a "public worker"

Procyon - "before the dog" (rising before the star Sirius)

Berserk - old Norse for “bear skin”, or bare naked!

Weird - “to turn wind”

Noble - a highborn who is in the know

Collude - "play together"

And three short stories behind 3 harmless words:

O.K. - "oll korrect". As WtymOnline says: "1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (such as K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go;" N.C. for "'nuff ced;" K.Y. for "know yuse"). In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect."

Altar - Latin for "high" and arguably refering to the elated trance state one aspires to reach when up upon the spiritual alter in the classic sense of worship and dedication to the faith or religion of choice. Thus, your perception and state of existence becomes ALTERED when you sincerely set foot on the alter.

Likewise, Entrance is the entryway through a church doorway, which ultimately leads to the individual becoming ENTRANCED by the ceremonies to follow (whether in a authentically enriching fashion or more often these days a indoctrinating manner).


That's all for now folk.
See you in the FarSide.

"tea(rs)"

"tea"

I bet you can guess the beginnings of the word "tea". Originating in myth-form from Bodhidharma (the 29th patriarch of that damn zen-man, Buddha!) whom is said to have fallen asleep near the end of his NINE YEARS of wall-gazing. Then after becoming angry with himself, he cut off his eyelids to prevent it from happening again. So when his tears hit the floor the first tea plants sprang up and thereafter tea would provide a stimulant to help students stay awake during meditation. How's that for an etymology!?

(Bodhidharma - a moody fellow)

Also, tea is slang for marijuana, which sometimes was brewed in hot water.

Revel in the dishevelled origins of wierd WORDS!

Pumpernickel - "devil farts" 
Darling  - "favorite minion"
Pedestrian - "a follower" (of Aristotle)
Robot - "forced labor"
Nice - “not knowing” (foolish)
Chaos - "original yawning abyss"
Government - "mind pilot"
University - "corporation" or "universal society"

Here's a curve ball: Hollywood refers to the Holly tree that ancient Druids selected branches from to remove and use. With these Holly tree limbs, Druids made magic staffs with which they could then cast spells. . . leading to greatest magicians/Druids of current time: "HollyWood". With such spell binding SFX, enchanting big budgets, and spectacles so supreme!

Now, let's indulge in combinations like:
Revel & Dishevel meaning "riotous merry making - with shaven head."

Hello - "stop, cease!"
Hippocrates  - "one superior in horses"
Lettuce - "milky sap"
Gymnasium - "to train naked"
Deutsch - "greedy men"
America - "work-rule"
Muscle - "little mouse"
Doctor - "alter, disguise, falsify"
Utopia - "no where"
Travel - "to work"

Orange - fatal ingestion for elephants (originally a Sanskrit work Naga-rata which carries old meaning about elephants who ate too many orange fruits then died leaving the doctor/examiner to be baffled by the autopsy and exlaim "this was a fatal ingestion for the elephant" which ultimately translated into Naranja in Spanish and, thus Orange today in English. . .)

Family - "servants of a household"
Taboo - "sacred"
Money - "warning!" 
Estate - "the standing collective assets of a dead person"
Religion - "bond between humans and gods"
Senate - "old" (senile)
Gentile - "chivalrous person; member of the nobility”
Philistine - "uncircumcised phallus"
Lord - "keeper of the bread" (load-ward)
Lady - "loaf"
Vagina - "sword sheath"
Addict - "roman slave"

Finally a few words of debatable origins:
Ciao - "i am your slave"

Pyramids (*) - "fire in the middle" (not a place for ascension of souls of deceased kings - rather it is a place of energy generation like a coal factory!) Thus,"Pyra"(Fire) and "Middo"(middle)?

Porcelain (†) - "Pigs Female Genitalia" . . . originally the chinaware so called from resemblance of its lustrous transparency to the shiny surface of the cowrie shells, however, the shell's name in Italian is from porcella "young sow," or porcus "pig”. Porcelain's connection between the shell and the pig is it's resemblance of the shell's opening and the exposed outer genitalia of pigs.



COMING SOON:
Great phrases and saying you should know for the workplace such as, "He who will swallows apple seeds, must consider the size of his anus."


*** "pyramido" referenced from: http://www.gizapyramid.com/mehler-originword.htm *** 
††† "porcelain" references from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=porcelain ***

A FEW MORE FUN ONES

Pedestrian, "a follower" (of Aristotle)

Weird, "to turn wind"

Estate, the standing collective assets of a dead person

Ciao, "i am your slave"

Bullshit, a combo of the stanky-untrusty-shit that comes from the Catholic chuch's papal bulls.

Eunuch, guard of the bedchamber or harem

Smithereens,"fragments" as Irish called it smidiríns

Lord, "bread keeper"

Lady, "loaf"

Cloud - "mass of rocks"

Service, "slave" (as in, duty of a military man)

Escape, "out of cape" (when capes were common in society, a person could evade an attack by removing their cape and throwing to distract the opponents)

Night, "day" (based on the measure of daytime)

Psychology, the study of the soul (hah!)

University, "corporation"

Asia, "to rise" (solar)

Europe, "to set" (solar)

America, "work-ruler"