[FRIAM] FW: Thread bender
Steve Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Thu Jun 4 18:54:54 EDT 2020
> Funny you say I was alluding to Gods. I was thinking about what would
> be a good name for a caveman. I looked at the list of characters in
> the comic strip B.C. One of them was "Thor".
I was wondering why the joke mixed the two tropes (caveman and gods)!
At Merle's meeting in Stockholm in December, the first Swede I met had
written on his name tag "Thunder Bear". It was a little hard to keep a
straight face while addressing him, and it took most of the evening at a
dinner table with him (and 8 others?) to discover that his given name
was "**Torbjörn*" *which unsurprisingly translates to: "Thunder Bear".
I thought it odd and unique but not surprising on reflection. At the
end of my trip there, I took a one-night AirBnB stay at the home of a
young (30something) man who turned out to be very fascinating to chat
with AND his name was also **Torbjörn* *and he made it clear that this
is a very common name throughout modern Scandinavia.
Glen keeps telling us that "communication doesn't exist", yet we DO
continue to attempt/pretend to do it!
- Steve
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