Steph

Like a Painted Desert scene

of course!

Real ones. Paxwax is "the strong tendon in the neck of animals". So it sounds more interesting than it is. Sonneteer could mean someone who writes sonnets or it could mean a minor or insignificant poet. I was playing Scrabble on the computer and had lots of E's and N's. So I plugged that in as a joke and was surprised to see it worded. That amused me. I'm easy to amuse.

I say "better you than me" to anyone who wants to play around with the big bugs. I'm okay with crickets and grasshoppers and roly polies. Okay, maybe a few others. But mostly bug people can enjoy themselves far away from me.

Code? Whose code? Galen's? If you mean me, I'm just posting words which I came across during the day which interested me.

That's a nice bag. Congratulations. If you're thinking of collecting and not just selling, that's one to hang onto.

I tried to convince my husband to wear his pants inside out to work today in honor of the occasion. He wouldn't do it. Peltier Rainbo on the middle. I think Alley for #1 and #3.

What is a word with 4 letters, yet is written with 3. Although is written with 8, rarely with 6, and never with 5.

Just watched a video of a mammoth moth. Will be awhile before I recover.

I think $20 is a good price for it if you are interested in picking up some vintage American-mades.

Neato neato neato. Oh that's so cute. My mother was a jacks champion!

I'll have a Grape Nehi, please.

Peltier Sprite http://www.peltiermarbles.com/new_names/content/newnames.htm

We could have the soda line of Peltier rainbos. I think there is a Sprite named already -- but I don't remember the color combo. Is it yellow and white on transparent green? Yes ... that's the one. Thank you, Google. http://www.peltiermarbles.com/new_names/content/newnames.htm Rootbeers will start to get some love.

It's a burden.

That's how I was seeing them. Many tweeners with some seeming to reach back to NLR and some seeming to reach forward. I wasn't able to reconcile the span in my mind so I didn't comment. But I wanted to say the t-word. (And all the while in the background I was trying to remember known dates for that box style.)

Okay, I'm back -- could start an "everyone name a marble" thread. Just for fun. No pressure. And see if anything sparks imaginations. Purely for fun. Not homework. Just ... "I'm naming this Pelt Rainbo a Fiesta" .... for example.

sonneteer

Well, it's an interesting idea. I feel overwhelmed by what it would involve. But I've already talked enough. I'll step back and listen.

Oh, and I thought of one more thing. When a name has been accepted, people stray from it. So then who judges what range of marbles fits into that name? I'm trying to remember an example where that became troublesome for me once. I think Vitro Opal was an example. I'm not sure but I _think_ that may be an example of where what one large group of collectors defined as opals ended up being different from what the people who came up with the name defined as opals. If I'm wrong about that particular case, you can still see how that could happen. Definition shift.

Hot topic! I know some are passionately against naming marbles. I think I'm mostly neutral. I like a lot of the marble names. I want to learn a lot of the marble names. But even with the names which already exist, I have some issues. "Ace" and "Special" for Akro marbles -- those are tough for me. I'm trying to learn the collector's usage -- but it's hard for me because it contradicts Akro's usage of the words. And with all the other marbles out there ... who gets to name them? What group of namers is going to be so acceptable that the oldtimers across the nation (and world) will get on board with the names as they're generated and not get peeved about at least some of it? It's the logistics of it which makes me not so neutral. With a little bit of emotion added in -- if it's someone I unhappy with doing the naming then I'm likely to resist.

Cool. And neato. And stuff.