Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site hadron.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!hadron!jsdy From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: The Dreaded Halcyon Hoop Message-ID: <61@hadron.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 09:20:53 EST Article-I.D.: hadron.61 Posted: Sat Nov 9 09:20:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 07:36:47 EST References: <29300015@hpfclg.UUCP> Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA Lines: 14 In article <29300015@hpfclg.UUCP> neutron@hpfcla.UUCP writes: >dreaded "Halcyon Hoop". The only definitions I can find for "halcyon" >are a bird or a set of days around the Vernal Equinox, neither of which >makes sense here. I expected it to be some technical term in physics. It sounds like some kind of sub-atomic particule, doesn't it? Probably why it was used. I'm surprised at your dictionary, because it seems to me that the most common use for it these days is a derivation from the idea of spring days, and means lazy, slow, happy-go-lucky times (or something with a similar feeling). -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}