Uh, about your nick... For some reason, I keep thinking that I've seen the phrase "a jovial cad" somewhere in relation to anagrams, but I can't remember what it was. I can't seem to come up with any single words that fit it. Care to hit me with a cluebat?
Yes, and I've even seen a few ZOTTED in pairs...
Uh, about your nick... For some reason, I keep thinking that I've seen the phrase "a jovial cad" somewhere in relation to anagrams, but I can't remember what it was. I can't seem to come up with any single words that fit it. Care to hit me with a cluebat?
"A Jovial Cad" may have some significance as an anagram, but if so I'm unaware of it. Indeed, the last time I even thought about anagrams was during the Scrabble scene in "Rosemary's Baby," LOL.
I think the phrase comes from Shakespeare, though I'm not sure about that. How I came across it was uniquely personal, but still an interesting story. When I was in the Air Force, I bought a set of those "great books" from an encyclopedia salesman I'd run across somewhere, entrance to a store or some such place. I guess I wanted to look intellectual or something, but my Air Force partying buddies knew me better than that, and it became something of an "inside" joke among us.
One of them, who was quite a bit smarter than the rest of us, was constantly asking to borrow one or other of the books from the collection, which is pretty much the only reading that got done in them until I got out of the USAF and into college.
Well, this fellow had signed his "farewell" to me thus: "To (my real name): a genuine cad--but a jovial one. Good luck." Thus was born the mighty FR moniker A Jovial Cad! LOL...
As I say, I'm guessing the phrase originally comes from some work or play of The Bard's, but don't know for sure.