Word Game

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.

Just a few that come to mind:

placid
sphinx-like
undisturbed
serene
unflappable

i was thinking farmer hippy bovine docile or decaffeinated.

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

easy (like Sunday morning)
mellow

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

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

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

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 :smiley:

Farmers are laid-back?

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. :slight_smile:

that’s 6 times this morning that someone has said that to me. :slight_smile:

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.

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?

Lionel Ritchie?? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: They play that song on the musak at my work all the time!

I would go for “chill”.

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.

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 .

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·

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