[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Welcome, Al

  • From: Aloysius Qwantz <aloysius2k5@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:07:18 -0700 (PDT)

No,  qwantz is the middle name of the great
encyclopedic sage Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein
Gavronsky of Appenzell (CH), from whom,  unworthy as I
am,  I have nevertheless borrowed first name, and made
of his middle my last.

Guido


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--- Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> O.K. -- whence Qwantz? Does it have someting to do
> with dolphins, too? 
> 
> Cindy
> 
> 
> --- Aloysius Qwantz <aloysius2k5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Tursiop is a slight  involuntary misspelling of
> the
> > scientific name of the bottle-nosed dolphin
> > (Tursiops
> > truncatus), found in coastal waters of the North
> > Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. 
> > My last name has been temporarely changed to
> Qwantz,
> > 
> > but I may revert to Tursiops eventually.  The name
> > is
> > Latin,  likely of Greek derivation.
> > I don't think there is a special meaning. It's
> just
> > that I like Dolphins.  
> > 
> > 
> > 
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