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According to my Forgotten English Calendar its Byron's Birthday today!
It then goes on to tell me:
"Among the superstitions in which Byron chose to indulge, the supposed unluckiness of Friday, as a day for the commencement of any work, was one by which he almost always, allowed himself to be influenced. Soon after his arrival at Pisa, a lady of his acquaintance happening to meet him on the road from her house as she was returning thither, and supposing that he had attempted to make a visit, requested that he would go back with her. "I have not been to your house," he answered, "for just before I got to the door, I remembered that it was Friday, and not liking to make my first visit on Friday, I turned back. "It is even related of him that he once sent away a Genoese tailor who had brought him home a new coat on the same ominous day. - Thomas Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, 1830
Oddly the word today is eargh which means: "Superstitiously afraid. This is the word of which eerie is a later form. The Anglo-Saxon form is earh - Walter Skeat's A Student's Pastime, 189
Hmmm. Plot bunnies, plot bunnies. *evil grin*
In other news, Rob Zombie is bad for your job prospects..
No really! This morning I was listening to the Best Of CD on the way to work and just as I pulled into the work car park 'Dragula' came on. I love this song, so I sat and head banged (complete with satan's horns hand gestures) in the car until it finished. When I looked up, I realised one of my senior partners was standing watching me quizzically through the windscreen...
*facepalms*
Definitely a good time for use of the word "Eargh"..
It then goes on to tell me:
"Among the superstitions in which Byron chose to indulge, the supposed unluckiness of Friday, as a day for the commencement of any work, was one by which he almost always, allowed himself to be influenced. Soon after his arrival at Pisa, a lady of his acquaintance happening to meet him on the road from her house as she was returning thither, and supposing that he had attempted to make a visit, requested that he would go back with her. "I have not been to your house," he answered, "for just before I got to the door, I remembered that it was Friday, and not liking to make my first visit on Friday, I turned back. "It is even related of him that he once sent away a Genoese tailor who had brought him home a new coat on the same ominous day. - Thomas Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, 1830
Oddly the word today is eargh which means: "Superstitiously afraid. This is the word of which eerie is a later form. The Anglo-Saxon form is earh - Walter Skeat's A Student's Pastime, 189
Hmmm. Plot bunnies, plot bunnies. *evil grin*
In other news, Rob Zombie is bad for your job prospects..
No really! This morning I was listening to the Best Of CD on the way to work and just as I pulled into the work car park 'Dragula' came on. I love this song, so I sat and head banged (complete with satan's horns hand gestures) in the car until it finished. When I looked up, I realised one of my senior partners was standing watching me quizzically through the windscreen...
*facepalms*
Definitely a good time for use of the word "Eargh"..
