* Anthony Armstrong's 1945 whimsical short story " Etaoin and Shrdlu " ends " And Sir Etaoin and Shrdlu married and lived so happily ever after that whenever you come across Etaoin's name even today it's generally followed by Shrdlu's ".

Most likely, as speculated in the Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names, it is simply " a whimsical name bestowed in the 19th century on a place considered desolate, exposed or difficult to cultivate ".

The paper gives no rationale for the protocol's whimsical name.

The novel then takes a complete new direction in terms of both tone and style, as Serge — suffering from amnesia and total long-term memory loss, with no idea who or where he is beyond his first name — is doted upon by Albine, the whimsical, innocent and entirely uneducated girl who has been left to grow up practically alone and wild in the vast, sprawling, overgrown grounds of Le Paradou.

Several sources have commented on Ninetales ' name, with various reporters calling it " whimsical " and " fanciful ".

The whimsical name " Tic-Tac-Toe Barb " is applied to either species.

The film's name is a direct reference to American sitcoms, which are noted for their focus on traditional family values and whimsical humour.

In the 1970s Recycled Paper Greetings, a small company needing to establish a competing identity against the large companies like Hallmark Cards, began publishing humorous " whimsical " card designs with the artist's name credited on the back.

Frederick Rowland Emett ( 22 October 190613 November 1990 ) OBE, known as Rowland Emett ( with the forename sometimes spelled " Roland " his middle name appears on his birth certificate and the surname frequently misspelled " Emmett "), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture.

" The whimsical name caught on, and Dyson began to use it himself in subsequent essays he wrote on his theoretical biotechnology spacecraft.

( He wrote a poem, Shyamale, under this whimsical pen name Maulānā Allāuddin Khilji ).

With a height of six feet, five inches, he was one of the tallest Scottish peers, leading to the whimsical name of " Wee Iain ".

In some of these he adopts the whimsical name Dexiades Ericius.

He went to New York City, and was hired by National Lampoon and made a name for himself as an artist with intelligent and whimsical humor.

The name is a whimsical reference to 19th-century economist William Stanley Jevons, who attempted to correlate business cycle patterns with sunspot counts ( on the actual sun ) on the grounds that they might cause variations in weather and thus agricultural output.

I can only imagine that it is a whimsical riposte for my having my name removed from a film I wrote a few years ago reference to Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Halloween III for which Kneale wrote an early draft and which Mr Carpenter carpentered into sawdust ".

Their " look " – a mixture of the weird and the whimsical – drew on influences like the circus, music hall, gothic horror, Expressionist cinema, pantomime, psychedelia, surrealism and modern art – all filtered through the band's bizarre demeanour and crazed on-stage antics.

Seymour wades into the ocean and, placing the girl on a rubber raft, proceeds to tell her the whimsical tale – “ the very tragic life ” – of the bananafish: in their gluttony, they gorge themselves on bananas, and swollen too large to escape their feeding holes, die.

Overtly whimsical elements were now downplayed in favor of more grounded real-life incidents and stories, and some of the series ' running gags from the 1972 – 92 years were recast in a more serious light.

Although a seemingly casual outfit that reflected the Seventh Doctor's initially easy and whimsical manner, it took on a new light when he became more scheming and prepared in his missions – to reflect the emergence of his personality's more mysterious and darker aspects, his jacket, hatband, handkerchief, scarf and tie became more muted and darker in colour, now in shades of burgundy and brown.

" The monumental Lumberjack ( 1977 – 1984 ), cast from a whimsical woodsman Red made as a gift for artist Neil Welliver, demonstrates his facility with the lost-wax method of casting.

* August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes ( born 1762 )

* It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view ; it pokes fun at mostly famous people

He also penned several short stories, ranging from hard science fiction to whimsical fantasy.

She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodates a considerable range of theatrical styles, from high melodrama to slapstick comedy, from whimsical and musical to all-out action and adventure.

Astrology, including everything from serious study to whimsical amusement regarding personal traits, was integral to hippie culture.

He was responsible for the " Galaxy Song " from The Meaning of Life and " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", a whimsical tune that first appeared on the Previous Record album.

Much of its distinctive and whimsical architecture derives from this period.

The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques ( particularly electronics and arcade games ) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

People from Aguascalientes ( both the city and the state ) are known by the whimsical Spanish demonym hidrocálidos or " hydrothermal " people.

Columbia Presents Corwin ( 1944 ) offered stories ranging from serious to whimsical.

Like the Telecaster, Marriott modified it in a whimsical way by removing the original scratch plate and replacing it with the white scratch plate from his Dwight.

Not as realist as the work of some of his belle-époque predecessors in sculpture, Yrurtia's subtle impressionism inspired Argentine students like Antonio Pujía, whose internationally prized female torsos always surprise admirers with their whimsical and surreal touches, while Pablo Curatella Manes ' sculptures drew from cubism.

Some of the earliest O gauge trains made of tinplate weren't scale at all, made to unrealistic, whimsical proportions similar in length to modern HO scale, but anywhere from one and a half to two times as wide and tall.

Episodes ranged from straight western drama to whimsical comedy.

Later students of the whimsical problem came up with solutions which managed to avoid any inconsistencies, by having the ball emerge from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and deliver its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.

Despite its scholarly subject and content, the work takes the form of a whimsical dialogue, principally between a mathematician named Minos ( taken from Minos, judge of the underworld in Greek mythology ) and a " devil's advocate " named Professor Niemand ( German for ' nobody ') who represents the " Modern Rivals " of the title.