A rhetorical question.

[saxikath]

I bought a plant for my cube the other day. I'd been meaning to for a while, and a cube-cleaning binge gave me the necessary final boost. It's a pothos -- kinda like a philodendron, supposed to be good for low light.

Is it irredeemably geeky of me that my first thought of what to name a pothos is Arthos? :)

(Also, my brain is weird. When trying to come up with the names of the Three Musketeers, I was having trouble with the third one, and my brain somehow went "Athos, Porthos, and Abednego!")

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

*snickers* That's an awesome name for a plant. :)

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Well, your cube could be considered your "Me shack". So all you'd need is an apparatus for drying fish and you could have a "Shad rack" as well.

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

Re the former: my first thought was "gee, for something meant to cheer up one's workspace, that name is way too close to 'pathos'".

Re the latter: that was definitely an error, miss.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Arthos is a great name for a pothos.

[dcltdw]

Who or what is an arthos?

[saxikath]

Athos and Porthos = two of the Three Musketeers. Since a pothos is missing an R, it must have migrated to Athos. Thus Arthos.

Yeah, I'm a geek.

[dcltdw]

Ahhh, my cultural ignorance strikes again. Cute. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'd been thinking you should name it "Aramis," so there you have it.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

And while Dumas etymologizes that as a demon's name, backwards, σιμαρα is "today" in Modern Greek.

That's been troubling me for a while.

(Here's geeking at you, Kath.)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I used to have a wandering jew named Moses.

[caroleotter.livejournal.com]

I like the way your mind makes these lateral leaps. Methinks that is one of the reasons you're good at puzzles.

And btw, I wonder if you ever did the church musical, "Cool in the Furnace"? (Shadrach, Meschach, Abednego!) That cadence really gets stuck in your head if you rehearse it for a few weeks.

Also btw, I can tell you, as owner of many many pothoses, they are easy to keep, and pretty hard to kill. Just water about once a week (feel the soil, and only water it when it's dry) and watch it grow. Long, long chains of leaves will result. (If you want it to be bushy instead of stringy, prune it regularly.)

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

No migrating R, but I've had a pothos named D'Artagnan for a while now. I love pothos—they're d__n near impossible to kill.