What's in a Name?

[pmccarthy]

Nomadpete raised an important issue in another thread. We Peters are tired of our name being used in a derogatory fashion. For example, petered out. Or for pete's sake!

 

So here is a true history of the name. In ancient Latin, Peter had a meaning but came to be associated with rock.

 

• When BIG J found out Peter's name he said "upon this rock I will build my church."
   
  
• When gunpowder was discovered they used potassium chloride, or saltpeter.
   
  
• When a vein of gold got narrower and was replaced with ordinary rock, they said it had petered out.
   
  
• The study of the origin of rocks is petrology.
   
  
• Liquid hydrocarbon found in rocks is petroleum.
   
  
• Ancient humans chipped patterns on rock, they are called petroglyphs
   
  
• A petard is a small bomb made with saltpeter. If it goes off in your hand and throws you into the air you are "hoist with your own petard". 
   
  
• The name ultimately comes from the Latin pedere (to break wind).
   
  

 

 

 

So lets have a little more respect.

 

 

[old man emu]

The very thought of acting in a derogatory manner petrifies me.

 

 

[facthunter]

 Petrified means organic to rock and sometimes to be to be $#1t scared.  Bumbulum in Latin for fart( singular). Clever language that Latin. Nev

 

 

[willedoo]

And then there's the truck that Peterbilt.

 

 

[nomadpete]

Quote/

 

"The name ultimately comes from the Latin pedere (to break wind). "

 

For a minute there, I thought you were fighting on our side.......

 

Signed,

 

Pedro

 

(No .....madpete)

 

 

[old man emu]

Some Russians are St Petersburghers

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Who would choose to be called John?

 

The hooker went with her John.

 

i am in the John.

 

she grabbed my John Thomas.

 

perhaps it is a disciples thing? Luke warm, door Matt, Mark time.

 

hmmm...

 

 

[old man emu]

A girl I was going out with asked me to meet her at a coffee shop near where we worked. Turned out it was a deMarkation Zone.

 

 

[onetrack]

What about having your name associated with the Peter Principle?

 

That Principle that states every employee will rise in the company/corporation/political hierarchy, through promotion, until they reach a level of respective incompetence.

 

 

[willedoo]

And isn't there a Peter who sticks up for animals? And one called Peter the Great. So they can't all be bad.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Fair go - we don’t stick it up animals.