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- From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
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- Subject: Re: Royal Rumble summary
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:29:50 GMT
- References: <25JAN199312194931@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan26.162821.10579@ac.dal.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan26.162821.10579@ac.dal.ca> jsteeves@ac.dal.ca (Jason Steeves) writes:
- >..and why do you suppose that is? The sign above his head clearly
- >said "Narcissist". We've just been mistaken the past several weeks.
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- >If anyone had gone to the bother of looking the word up in the
- >dictionary (as Mean Gene did for us already), you would find:
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- >narcissism : self-love
- >narcissist : one who practices narcissism
- >narcissus : bulbous plant
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- >When I looked that up, I remembered that my grandmother used to plant
- >narcissus in her flower garden :-)
-
- If you dig a little deeper, you'll find that Narcissus was the name
- of a youth in Greek legend that was so infatuated with himself that
- he was turned into a flower, hence the flower's name and the words
- derived from the boy's name. "Narcissus" is at least as appropriate
- as "The Narcissist" for Lex Lugar, and it is in the form of a proper
- name, too.
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