Word Game

primitive · Post by **primitive** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:34 am

I need a word that describes a person who is very laid back, calm and collceted, and lives a peaceful life. Something along those boundaries. I can't really think of anything.

Carola · Post by **Carola** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:06 am

Just a few that come to mind:

placid
sphinx-like
undisturbed
serene
unflappable

chad · Post by **chad** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:46 am

i was thinking farmer hippy bovine docile or decaffeinated.

GlottalGreekGeek · Post by **GlottalGreekGeek** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:48 am

I would just use the term "laid-back" myself, since it implies the other qualities you listed.

Bardo de Saldo · Post by **Bardo de Saldo** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:52 am

easy (like Sunday morning)
mellow

primitive · Post by **primitive** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:36 am

ah see im trying to come up with a name for a band...

Deudeditus · Post by **Deudeditus** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:23 pm

what kind of band?
I would suggest (only half-kidding) The Tibetan Monks of SoCal.

William · Post by **William** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:56 pm

primitive wrote:ah see im trying to come up with a name for a band...

Do what the Grateful Dead did – they purportedly opened a dictionary and picked two words at random. On second thought, I'm not sure it worked out for them. The name is kind of crappy...

WB

amans · Post by **amans** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:39 pm

Why not use a Greek name? 'The Galenes', 'The Eudias', or 'The Hesychias' perhaps? I am pluralizing, assuming you're bunch of cool, laid-back guys

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:48 pm

chad wrote: farmer

Farmers are laid-back?

chad · Post by **chad** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:48 pm

i think so compared to people working in city jobs. laid-back doesn't mean lazy at all to me, it's how much stress you show i think.

annis · Post by **annis** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:56 pm

chad wrote:i think so compared to people working in city jobs. laid-back doesn't mean lazy at all to me, it's how much stress you show i think.

You have clearly never seen a farmer paying the diesel bill.

chad · Post by **chad** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:59 pm

that's 6 times this morning that someone has said that to me.

Carola · Post by **Carola** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:04 am

Oh! Band names - that's different. I think the most important rule is to get something that doesn't date. It's OK if you are doing a short term project but think about that 20-30 years working life..... (So if you called yourself the Psychedelic Bananas back in 1970 you are forever condemned to playing that kind of music!) I like the idea of the Greek name, it is a bit mysterious and doesn't date. You could have a poster with the name in Greek letters or something.

Carola · Post by **Carola** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:14 am

chad wrote:that's 6 times this morning that someone has said that to me.

Be grateful you don't live in some parts of country Australia where you have to drive 300 km to see a doctor or dentist! (Or get your hair cut!)

I might actually start another post about what we are all paying for fuel. Is everyone suffering?

Kopio · Post by **Kopio** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:58 am

Bardo de Saldo wrote:easy (like Sunday morning)

Lionel Ritchie??

They play that song on the musak at my work all the time!

I would go for "chill".

Bardo de Saldo · Post by **Bardo de Saldo** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:57 am

A group? That changes everything: "The Couch Rhythmatos".

I had no idea that was Lionel Ritchie, Kopio. I must have heard it at the Classic Rock station.

PhilipF · Post by **PhilipF** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:42 pm

William wrote:
primitive wrote:ah see im trying to come up with a name for a band...
Do what the Grateful Dead did – they purportedly opened a dictionary and picked two words at random. On second thought, I'm not sure it worked out for them. The name is kind of crappy...

WB

Apparently a fan of the band who is a biologist named an insect after them . 'thanatogratus' . Although he comitted the solecism of combining Greek and Latin so did the inventor of something called 'television' which they said would never catch on . I am sure I came across the phrase 'the grateful dead 'in an old poem .I can't track down the phrase . I think it was to do with the American Civil War.
If you like the Beatles you could call yourselves 'Kantharides' Which is also a toxic aphrodisiac .

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:20 am

primitive wrote:I need a word that describes a person who is very laid back, calm and collceted, and lives a peaceful life. Something along those boundaries. I can't really think of anything.

I call it "my dream".

I apologize for an offshoot from the flow of the discussion.
Once I uttered this mysterious word, it reminds me of a sentence quoted for an exercise in Chase & Phillips,
τί δέ τις; τί δ’ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος.
the ὄναρ was ringing along with the word ἀνήρ I learned before for years since. Maybe because I was not keen at accents then.

Now I learned that it's from Pindar, Pythias Odes 8:135 ~
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ’ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ, λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών·

Kopio · Post by **Kopio** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:21 am

Soryy...completely off the topic but....Mingshey, your daughter just gets cuter and cuter....what a doll!

primitive · Post by **primitive** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:29 pm

haha wow. see i want to pick a name that has something to do with all of us in the band (4). and we are all very very laid back. we never really get angry, or waste time yelling. really cool calm and collected. for now we've settled on 'valhalla', but i really don't like the name too much. thanks for the suggestions. oh btw, we're a blues, jazz, and rock band kind of like zeppelin and ray charles combined.

Yhevhe · Post by **Yhevhe** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:05 pm

If you told me Valhalla, I'd say heavy metal with 8 valkyrie singers (no offence meant)

Asgard(r) would be another nice nordic option, if you're going by that side.

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