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thagomizer Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons.
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- This is true, but it was not that meaning that was intended by the producers of the show. There are two versions of the story. Fran Striker told the Saturday Evening Post that he invented Tonto's name and that it was picked by merely alterring the consanants in the name Gobo.
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thagomizer from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons. See -ize, -er.
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- roflcopter. Invented by a Blizzard moderator on the Warcraft III forum. There is always much whining going on on those official forums, much sucking up to moderators and an awful lot of 'BLUE!!!o when one invented this new buzzword, it was grabbed and squeezed out and spread like a virus across all of the Blizzard forums and from there over the internet. The word is derived from a unit in Warcraft III, the gyrocopter (flying machine).
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It's Elemental Thallium is pronounced as THAL-ee-em. History and Uses: Thallium was discovered spectroscopically by Sir William Crookes, an English chemist, in 1861. Crooks had obtained the sludge left over from the production of sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) from a friend.
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Talk:Thagomizer Just because joking use of it can be sourced doesn't mean it should have an article. If this article is to be kept, it should be at the correct paleontological term, and Thagomizer a (silly, but valuable) redirect to it. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 00:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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Manifest Destiny In 1846 he supported a war of conquest against Mexico and in 1848 he urged that Cuba and Yucatan be made a part of the United States, by purchase or by force. O'Sullivan coined a catchy phrase for the expansionism of the 1840s, but his concept does not explain the motives, means, and goals behind aggrandizement. The historical evidence on this topic is abundant, contradictory, and often misleading.
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DPT vaccine In 1894 French bacteriologist Pierre Roux (1853-1933) developed a diphtheria antitoxin serum that he used to successfully treat more than 300 cases of the disease. In 1913 Hungarian scientist and pediatrician Bela Schick (1877-1967) introduced the Schick test, which tells whether or not a person can get diphtheria if exposed to it.
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Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) was a lawyer of Polonized-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).
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Palindrome The word palindrome was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin (πάλιν; again) and dromos (δρoμος; δρóμος, way). direction
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- DBA: Doctor of Business Administration: DBA: Database Administration: DBA: Database Architect: DBA: Database Analyst: DBA: Defense Base Act: DBA: Design Business Association: DBA: Downtown Business Association: DBA: Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen (German: Double Taxation Agreement) dBA: Decibels (Acoustic) DBA: Don't Be Afraid (Information Society album) DBA: Deutsche Ba (German airline) DBA
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[1.2] Where did the word 'robot' come from? History of the word robot. The term robot was coined by the Czech playwright Karel Capek (CHAH pek) from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and playwright.
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factoid We can thank Norman Mailer for the word factoid; he coined the term in his 1973 book Marilyn, about Marilyn Monroe. Mailer followed in a long tradition when he chose -oid; English speakers have been making words from -oid since at least the late 16th century.
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Stranger Things â Gematria Study & Illuminati Symbolism Stranger Things The Demogorgon The name Demogorgon first appeared around 400 AD, used to describe the demonic prince or supernatural authority of the chaotic underworld (Ether) who was known to the Gnostics as the Demiurge (Freemasons call him G.A.O.T.U).
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Maxillofacial Prosthetics: History to Modern Applications. Part 1 â Obturators According to Saul Bein,4 Demosthenes the Greek orator may have used pebbles to obturate a congenital cleft lip and palate. During the late 16th century, Ambrose Pare′5 is credited as the first to refer to “obturateurs” derived from the Latin word “obturo,” which means “stop up” (Figure 1). Over the centuries numerous examples of ingenious prostheses have appeared.
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- Origin: Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons.
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Thaumaturgy In original Greek writings, the term thaumaturge referred to several Christian saints. This is usually translated into English as wonderworker: a saint through whom God works miracles, not just occasionally, but as a matter of course. It was even said that God raises up not more than one every century.
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- I can't feel my face. Originally coined by rapper Ghostface Killah on his Fishscale album in the song Kilo, I can't feel my face is when you face numbs after snorting a lot of coke, blow, or yay-yo.Ghostface Killah lyrics intro to Kilo: Yo, Oh, Yo Rae... I can't feel my face... can't feel my face. Originally coined by rapper Ghostface Killah on his Fishscale album in the song Kilo, I can't feel my face is when you face numbs after snorting a lot of coke, blow, or yay-yo.
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Geostrategy Rudolf Kjellen kjellén was A swedish political scientist and student Of Friedrich. Ratzel he first coined the term.. Geopolitics his writings would play a decisive role in Influencing General Karl 'haushofer s, geopolitik and indirectly the Future nazi foreign. policyhe term  geo-strategy  was first used by Frederick L. Schuman in his 1942 article Let Us Learn Our Geopolitics.. It was a translation of the German term  Wehrgeopolitik  as used by German geostrategist Karl Haushofer.
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Manifest Destiny / Expansion Please try again later. In 1845 John L. O'Sullivan, a newspaperman from New York, coined the phrase Manifest Destiny.. This was during the time of the Alamo, Texas Republic's dispute with Mexico, the Oregon Territory, the setting of the northern border of the U. S., and the prelude to the Mexican War.
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Brinkmanship (Cold War) The term brinkmanship was originally coined by United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the height of the Cold War. The term came from the political Hungarian theory of pushing the military to the brink of war in order to convince another nation to follow your demands.
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Neoconservatism Irving Kristol was called godfather of neoconservatism. The term neoconservative was popularized in the United States during 1973 by Socialist leader Michael Harrington, who used the term to define Daniel Bell, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Irving Kristol, whose ideologies differed from Harrington's.
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Rush Limbaugh Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.. Limbaugh, Rush H., III (1992).
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10 Awful Realities Behind The Lobotomy Craze 8Patient Follow-Up. Moniz was the pioneer of the lobotomy and Freeman’s zeal quickly made it popular in the US, but the two of them often did not see eye to eye. Moniz felt that the ice pick method popularized by Freeman was not the most responsible way to perform surgery on someone’s brain.
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Orthogenesis Orthogenesis was a term first used by the biologist Wilhelm Haacke in 1893. Theodor Eimer was the first to give the word a definition; he defined orthogenesis as the general law according to which evolutionary development takes place in a noticeable direction, above all in specialized groups.. In 1922 the zoologist Michael F. Guyer wrote:
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Talk:Thagomizer Given that it's the same wording, [2], [3], and now [4], and the pointed edit summary in that last edit, it's probably the same individual. I previously discussed it with that individual at User talk:Quiddity/Archive 10#Thagomizer. This is just a note, for future reference.