Schicklgruber, Ger., handsome digger(?)
Inventive etymolgies "R" us
Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld
Poland / Norway
https://www.torgeirfjeld.com/
On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, 21:43 david ritchie, <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Inquiring minds will want to know if one can be further fathered. The
question may seem amusing, but before we get to comedy I might mention that
I’ve been thinking about some pretty awful fathers. In the Fatherland.
Also a man who has been “further arrested.” It’s a legal term.
We know Hitler’s father, Alois, was illegitimate, and so could have, like
Werner Herzog, taken his mother’s name Maria Anna Schicklgruber. After
Alois’ birth, Johan George Hiedler married Maria Anna and so Alois became a
Hiedler, also a Hüttler, Huettler and Hitler, all probably references to
little huts. Very Tyrolean. Adolf, son of Alois, was the fourth of six
children born to his third wife. There were other children from the
earlier mothers. Several died in childhood. It was rough, as was much of
mountain living. As my own father used to say, “You can’t eat scenery."
Adolf and Alois did not get along. To forge a separate identity from a
father who thought of himself as Austrian, among friends Adolf took to
using the German greeting “Heil.”
Werner Herzog would be horrified to be mentioned so close to Hitler, I’m
sure. All he had in common with that man is Bavarian birth and a change of
name. His father left early on and so he lived with his mother’s name,
Stipetich, until he began to make movies. Then his father’s name, German
for “duke,” seemed more cinematic.
Klaus Barbie’s father was wounded in the neck at Verdun, captured by the
French, and though probably descended from French people named Barbier,
hated that nation. The father’s drunken violence came out in his son.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-60202000
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/231395/can-a-person-be-further-arrested
Lighter thoughts. I learned this week that a protector protects a
protectee, and that this nation’s Vice President is one such person.
Similarly, if there are investors, it follows there are investees. And, of
course, procrastinators beget procrastinatees, editors (for example)
waiting with near-infinite patience for manuscripts from writers who wile
away the hours, wondering.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/kamala-harris-january-6-2021-democratic-national-committee/index.html?utm_content=2022-01-31T11%3A15%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/kamala-harris-january-6-2021-democratic-national-committee/index.html?utm_content=2022-01-31T11:15:04&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN>
Word comes from David Hackett Fischer, *Albion’s Seed*, that Newark was
originally called the New Ark of the Covenant, and that the early elite of
Massachusetts were in the majority East Anglian. Some came from what
Fischer calls, “fat marsh” country, which “ran many miles across east
Lincolnshire from the Humber to the Wash.” (p.40) The question
arises…flippantly…which is a good way to arise from a marsh…how anything
that runs so many miles remains fat? Maybe it should be getting pre-cooked
meals from someone who trained at *Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons* across the
way in Oxfordshire?
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/luke-shaw-physique-body-chef-jonny-marsh-977602
The Fens, I read, are an NCA, a National Character Area. There are 159 of
these, defined by a non-departmental public body, which is sponsored by the
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Some sentences
begin, “it is no stretch of the imagination,” which implies that
imagination is stretchable and that the Department of Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs could have had a role in Noel Coward’s, “Brief Encounter.”
Probably Myrtle Bagot, played by Joyce Carey. Remember her?
Myrtle Bagot <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136983/?ref_=tt_ch>: [smacks
her on the backside] Albert Godby, how dare you!
Albert Godby <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391361/?ref_=tt_ch>: I
couldn't resist it!
Myrtle Bagot <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136983/?ref_=tt_ch>: Oh, well,
trouble you for keeping your hands to yourself!
Albert Godby <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391361/?ref_=tt_ch>: Oh, you
blushing - oh, you look wonderful when you're angry... just like an
avenging angel.
Myrtle Bagot <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136983/?ref_=tt_ch>: I'll give
you avenging angel!... Coming in here taking liberties!
Albert Godby <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391361/?ref_=tt_ch>: I thought
last Monday, you said you wouldn't object to a friendly little slap.
Myrtle Bagot <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136983/?ref_=tt_ch>: Never
mind about last Monday... I'm on duty now. And I should think to what would
happen if Mr. Saunders should be looking through the window.
A script from another era. For the record, my next deadline is still a
long way off.
So, do carry on. Hamish and I are off, up the road.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
