paulrw@live.com wrote:Yes, the Copperhead is neat and pretty. Now I have named many,many patterns, and I wish peop would accept my names. Many were nameless, and some did not have good names. Usually my names are descriptive. Copperhead is not obvious, BUT it IS nice and rings well, so I accepted it.
Names like ROWLAND EMMETT'S FUNICULAR, PILEDRIVER, ROSE WINDOW, FERN LEAF, WOLF TRAP, THE CONJOINED, WELLDRILLER, HORNET HIVE, MANHATTEN PROJECT, MACE, BROADWAY, FROG BOG, LINCOLN TUNNEL, SEWING MACHINE, THE LION OF BELFORT, RADIOLARIAN, SIGNAL INJECTOR, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, TV TEST PATTERN, INTERNAL COMBUSTION (the last from a defective website that would NOT show a pattern named this, so I put the monicker on an appropiate P13 osc.),WILY COYOTE, ///
There are so many things wrong with this Catagolue comment.
First of all, if he's gonna tell his ideas for names he should probably say whatever these are actually called. Otherwise it's like, "We're getting signals from the aliens but we cannot decrypt their language." (Which is, to be fair, pretty much how it would work.)
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Who? I've never heard of him.
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Must be a pretty violent object.
3. Could describe nearly any billiard table
4. I though those were called fronds or something
5. I don't need to be criticizing all of these; I'll just skip over more boring ones...
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9. It's
Manhattan.
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12. At least it rhymes.
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16. Nobody has heard of those-- I am surprised I did somehow
17. THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED THAT; YOUR WISHES CAME TRUE!!! SURPRISE!!!
18. Sounds like a good title for a terrible book.
19. One of those old things? Like the 3... 2... 1... thing with the rotating bar?
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21.
and the Rhode Island runner-- unless he's not naming it specifically after Wile E. coyote.