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You can call me TC

Having introduced myself last Saturday I was stumped for further conversation. Apologies. Later I remembered what I wanted to ask you.

Am I ignorant or where does "Polidari Wormwood" - the name - come from? Is it an anagram?


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Post 2

The Ghost of Polidari

Thank you for your very kind sock.

PW is probably an anagram - but I'm not sure what for! I'll have to have a sit down later and see what I can come up with...

Polidari and Wormwood are both names I'd used before on other sites, and when it came to h2g2 they seemed to combine (to me, anyway) into quite a decent, interesting user name. So that's what I went for.

The 'real' Polidari was the fifth person involved in a round of ghost stories on the banks of Lake Geneva in the early 19th century. The other four being Byron, Shelley, Byron's girlfriend, and her cousin, a certain teenager named Mary Shelley...

Wormwood is from the Book of Revelations. At the time of the Apocolypse (or Armageddon, I always get them mixed up!), the bible says that Wormwood will fall from the sky. The Russian for Wormwood, quite spookily, is 'Chernobyl'...

And then all you do is put them together... smiley - smiley


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