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Ç Orono Weekly limes. Wednesday. January 5, 2000 Ringing in the New Year might, simply couldn't shake his passion for highly spiced dishes. dishes. Like 'Curried' rice, for instance. There's plenty of eponymous potential around when you look for it-- and lots to come, I like to think. Recently the TV program program Law and Order caught some flack for having one of its detectives refer to a John as 'getting 'getting a Lewinsky'. ' Blasphemy? Nonsense. Merely eponym iza- tion in action. Think of the possibilities. Clintonizing. The ability to talk out of both sides of your mouth and sound sensible to both parties. Chretienizing. the ability to talk out of one side of your mouth and make no sense -- in two official languages. Saddamnation. The art of winning a discussion by shooting shooting y< nr opponent in the forehead. forehead. Clarking: To behave in a manner that belies your background. background. E.G.: Becoming Superman when you're really Clark Kent. Or becoming the leader of a wannabe national political party when you're really really a geek from cattle country. The possibilities are endless. To shriek loudly and incoherently? incoherently? ■ That would be Copping a Sheila. ,To return from the dead? Pulling a Vander Zalm. To save money by closing down services and booting people people out of their jobs? Maximum Harr ism ent. To end a newspaper column because you've run out of space? Fading to Black. Fred West (C) toasts the New Year with his,daughter Freda Solima and friend Jim Connell at the Legion's Levee, January 1st. Now that West has lived in three centuries, he says, "I wonder how long I'm going to last." It was a big deal for West to see in the new Millennium. West, who was born on May 15, 1899, is a life member of the Canadian Legion, and the last WWI veteran in the Bowmanville Branch. Arthur Black WHAT'S IN A 'NYM? Want to know one of my favourite words in the English language? Eponym. Well, it's not really a favourite word -- 1 hardly ever use it -- what I love is what it means. Eponym n. 1 a person, (real or imaginary) after whom a discovery, discovery, invention or place is named, or thought to be named. Thus, the leotard -- a pair of gossamer-thin tights that tend to look decidedly better on some folks than on others. We owe their existence to a French chap named Jacques Leotard. Sandwich. Named after the Earl of Sandwich, an English' upper class degenerate who loved gambling so much he couldn't even stop to eat. While bidding on cards he would command command his minions to throw some meat between two slabs of bread -- unwittingly inventing the 'sandwich'. The grisly device known as the Guillotine takes its name from Monsieur Jean Guillotin, a French physician who recommended recommended it as a 'humane' method of dispatching criminals to the next world 'way back in 1789. When you think of it, eponyms are all around us. You drive a Ford? Thank Henry Ford. A Pontiac? You're commemorating commemorating a famous Indian chief of the Odawas who led an uprising against the British back in the late 1700's. Olds, Chrysler, Mercedes and Benz -- all eponyms. Like Sungote Studio PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY by Robert J. Monaghan .afev Portraits, • Weddings • Promotional . 20 Years Experience 5045 Main Street, Orono, ON LOB 1M0 • Phone (905) 983-8245 RP 1999-0282 Ontario boycott; nicotine and bloomers. Plus more than a few I'll bet you didn't know. The name Britain is derived from a legendary legendary Roman character named Brutus. Similarly, a fictitious chap by the name of I talus gave us Italy. Europa? The history books tell us she was the beautiful beautiful daughter of the king of Tyre and the apple of the eye of that mythological Mafioso, Zeus. Europa eventually succumbed to the courtship (rape, actually) of Zeus, little knowing she would one day give her name to the amalgam of Common Market nations we know today as Europe. The breathtaking corset? That was invented by Etienne Corset, a French tailor determined determined to make his clients look slimmer -- ' at the expense of normal respiration, if necessary. Haversack? A German mail carrier came up with that term for a po.uch he sewed together that made his daily rounds a little little less burdensome. His name? Emil'Haversack. And there's Adolphe Saxe who gave us the saxophone and Hereward Bugle who gave us the -- guess what? And Argentinean botanist Jorge Avocado and Portuguese chef Joao Marmalade and Sir George Curry... a British officah in Injah back in the 19th century don't you know, who, try as he Ontario Energy Board NOTICE OF APPLICATION LEAVE TO SELL ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION ASSETS LOCATED WITHIN THE TOWN OF UXBRIDGE An Application dated December 9, The Corporation of the Township of 1999, has been filed with the Ontario Uxbridge Energy Board by the Corporation of the 51 Toronto Street South Township of Uxbridge, 1382153 Ontario Uxbridge, ON L9P 1T1 Limited and Veridian Connections Inc., Attention: Walter Taylor seeking an order of the Board granting Clerk * leave to sell to Veridian Connections Tel: (905) 852-9181 x 208 Inc., the electric distribution assets Fax: (905) 852-9674 which are located within the boundaries of the former Town of Uxbridge and are Veridian Connections Inc. presently managed by the Uxbridge 1920 Bayly Street , Hydro-Electric Commission for the Pickering, ON L1W3R6 Township of Uxbridge and which will, Attention: John Wiersma effective December 31, 1999, be owned President and managed by 1382153 Ontario Tel: (905) 427-9870 x 2200 Limited. The Application also seeks Fax: (905) 427-4998 . related orders from the Board. If you wish to intervene in or observe Dated at Toronto December 21, 1999 this proceeding, or comment on the Ontario Energy Board application, you must contact the Board Secretary at the address set out below with 14 days of the publication of this Paul B. Pudge Notice. Board Secretary Copies of the Application are available for inspection at: ' ' ' I Ontario Energy Board P.O. Box 2319 2300 Yonge Street 26th Floor Toronto, ON M4P 1E4 Attention: Paul Pudge ' I Board Secretary Toll Free: 1-888-632-6273