I have to admit I am not an aficionado of early 21st century crime procedurals, not enough to know that
Casting Pike's Number One
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I don't watch many. I only ever gave that one a shot because it had Boreanaz and a Deschanel.
Oh. And Billy Gibbons.
Besides craps, McCoy was also a master of dominoes.
A Renaissance man.
Skeletor?
While finally "canonizing" the whole divorce backstory that's been an "unofficial" part of the McCoy's history since Day One . . . even if it never actually made it onscreen until the reboot.
The USS Enterprise Officer's Manual wasn't even authorized by Paramount. It was a fan-published manual, exactly the kind of thing CBS would shut down today.
Oh please, equating a nickname with a steam engine is ridiculous.
Most nations of the world understand the existence of steam engines, most nations of the world bar one have no need to understand the cultural details of the US civil war and its connection to any medical slang.
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Though to be fair, one of the links posted in this thread shows that the usage of "sawbones/bones" in this manner goes way back to England well before the US Civil War.
Kor
Gay used to mean merry for ages, now it can mean something else...shock horror!
A good deal of phrases we use in every day speech, in English, are throwbacks to things we generally don't know the roots of. Has your room ever been a shambles? Why did you just call it a medieval meat market?
How many things we say, for instance, that are directly pulled from Shakespeare and most of us don't know it, and the rest in general speech use it without awareness. We're still speaking Elizabethan english, mostly oblivious to the context the phrases were used in, but that's fine, they still work anyway:
"one fell swoop", "wild goose chase", "in my heart of hearts", "laughing stock", "fancy free", "green eyed monster", "good riddance", "as luck would have it", "for goodness' sake", "wear my heart upon my sleeve", "break the ice" "be-all and the end-all", "give the devil his due", "love is blind"
anyway, that's the "foregone conclusion" and I "refuse to budge an inch" "in my mind's eye"
so McCoy being called Bones for various reasons, does not seem out of context to me. Seems like we're making much ado about nothing
How many things we say, for instance, that are directly pulled from Shakespeare and most of us don't know it, and the rest in general speech use it without awareness. We're still speaking Elizabethan english, mostly oblivious to the context the phrases were used in, but that's fine, they still work anyway:
"one fell swoop", "wild goose chase", "in my heart of hearts", "laughing stock", "fancy free", "green eyed monster", "good riddance", "as luck would have it", "for goodness' sake", "wear my heart upon my sleeve", "break the ice" "be-all and the end-all", "give the devil his due", "love is blind"
anyway, that's the "foregone conclusion" and I "refuse to budge an inch" "in my mind's eye"
so McCoy being called Bones for various reasons, does not seem out of context to me. Seems like we're making much ado about nothing
And even if most people might not remember the origins of those phrases, if one would invent a new origin for one of them it would feel foolish to those who knew the real origin.A good deal of phrases we use in every day speech, in English, are throwbacks to things we generally don't know the roots of. Has your room ever been a shambles? Why did you just call it a medieval meat market?
How many things we say, for instance, that are directly pulled from Shakespeare and most of us don't know it, and the rest in general speech use it without awareness. We're still speaking Elizabethan english, mostly oblivious to the context the phrases were used in, but that's fine, they still work anyway:
"one fell swoop", "wild goose chase", "in my heart of hearts", "laughing stock", "fancy free", "green eyed monster", "good riddance", "as luck would have it", "for goodness' sake", "wear my heart upon my sleeve", "break the ice" "be-all and the end-all", "give the devil his due", "love is blind"
anyway, that's the "foregone conclusion" and I "refuse to budge an inch" "in my mind's eye"
so McCoy being called Bones for various reasons, does not seem out of context to me. Seems like we're making much ado about nothing
Only very uptight people who are seemingly unhappy with everything, and therefore don't get invited to etymologists' parties very often, anyway.
Person A- My nickname is Bones
Person B - Oh right, you're named after the sawbones of the American civil war
Person A - No I am named Bones cos I was considered skinny as s child
Person B - What foolishness! How dare your parents not stick to the original meaning of the word!!!!! Off with your head!
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"Off with his head!" -Richard III Act 3 Scene 4.
Person A is not a male lol
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