Rhadamanthine

From Rhadamanthus +‎ -ine, after Rhadamanthus, a king in Greek myths.

1. Strictly and uncompromisingly just.
2. Inflexibly rigorous or severe.

I recently realised that I haven’t got round to unpacking my word calendar but in the meantime I came across this word today and liked it very much.

• Worst Nickname – James the Be-shitten
• Most like a Comic Book Villain – The Universal Spider

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From a GOOD article about overuse of the word ‘syndrome’ (and underuse of the word ‘snorkel’):

…1661 syndrome (someone, usually a woman, who looks 16 from the back, 61 from the front)

Made me chuckle.

This is one for Jonny methinks.

The true punster’s mind cycles through homophones in search of a quip the way small children delight in rhymes or experiment babblingly with language. Accordingly, the least intolerable puns are those that avoid the pun’s essential puerility. Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, was a specialist. He could effortlessly execute the double pun: Noah’s Ark was made of gopher-wood, he would say, but Joan of Arc was maid of Orleans. Some Whately-isms are so complex that they nearly amount to honest jokes: “Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.”

*aptronym (n): A name that inadvertently describes its bearer’s occupation.

I think my personal favourites from this list have to be Dr. Kevin Blinder the Opthamologist, Les Plack the dentist, and Dr. Bonnie Beaver, the gynaecologist.