He has an apparently unpronounceable name, but creator Al Capp " pronounced " Btfsplk by simply blowing a " raspberry ," or Bronx cheer.

Joe Btfsplk may have been the inspiration for the name of the impish character Mr. Mxyzptlk from the Superman comic books.

Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wants to be a loving friend but is " the world's worst jinx ," bringing bad luck to all those nearby.

Joe Btfsplk was a character in the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner by cartoonist Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ).

Hapless Btfsplk and his ever-present cloud became one of the most iconic images in Li ' l Abner.

* Joe Btfsplk: The world's worst jinx, Joe Btfsplk had a perpetually dark rain cloud over his head.

In addition to the obvious comic effect, Capp often used Joe Btfsplk as a deus ex machina to produce miraculous rescues or to effect plot twists.

Btfsplk had first appeared in June 1942.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

The name " Banaczek " ( as pronounced in the show ) is actually quite rare in Poland.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

Thereupon the commission by Gregory XII authorizing his proxy to resign the Papacy on his behalf was read and Malatesta, acting in the name of Gregory XII, pronounced the resignation of the papacy by Gregory XII and handed a written copy of the resignation to the assembly.

As a concession, the mosque in Constantinople was re-opened and sermons were to be pronounced in az-Zahir's name.

He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because the fact that his surname ' Home ' was pronounced ' Hume ' in Scotland was not known in England.

In Old Castilian the letter x represented the sound written with sh in modern English, so the name was originally pronounced " ".

The name " epsilon " (, " simple e ") was coined in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter from the digraph αι, a former diphthong that had come to be pronounced the same as epsilon.

The name is perhaps pronounced and sometimes rendered in translations as Ellil in later Akkadian, Hittite, and Canaanite literature.

Conversely, the digraph ⟨ gh ⟩ is never pronounced in syllable onsets and is almost never pronounced in syllable codas ( the proper name Pittsburgh is an exception ).

The name of the letter is pronounced, i. e., voiceless, unless followed by a vowel.

Lower-case eth is used as a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ), again for a voiced dental fricative, and in IPA usage, the name of the symbol is pronounced with the same voiced sound, as ( the IPA symbol for the voiceless dental fricative is θ ).

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

In Austria and Bavaria the name is spelled as Xaver ( pronounced Ksaber ) and often used in addition to Francis as Franz-Xaver.

The French accent had apparently been added to the name by Kekulé's father during the Napoleonic occupation of Hesse by France, in order to ensure that French speakers pronounced the third syllable.

His name is now usually pronounced, but it was originally pronounced, with the stress on the first syllable, meaning " Corsica ".

In Polish the modern name of the city is pronounced.