If you could change your name...
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Sorry - you've lost me Mark. What meeting?
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
With the calf, of course. You must have been very impressed if it inspired you to change your name. Did you meet calves a, b, c, and d, too? I'm thinking of changing my name to Wantedtosleep, because it appears to be a recurring theme in my life.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With the calf, of course. You must have been very impressed if it inspired you to change your name. Did you meet calves a, b, c, and d, too? I'm thinking of changing my name to Wantedtosleep, because it appears to be a recurring theme in my life.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Aha! It wasn't a meeting, but a middle. The "Met" in Metcalfe was originally "Mede" (middle), and refers to Middleton Calf Top in Wensleydale. Our ancestor is reputed to be one William Medecalf de Dent, who took the name Medecalf upon settling there. "In the 12th century the newly-formed counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland, and the west riding of Yorkshire were formed, the boundaries ran along the tops of the ranges of hills passing along Holme Fell, Middleton Calf Top, (The Calf, almost 2,200 feet high is the tallest hill in West Yorkshire, almost at the western boundary of the county) and Cragg Hill. "The occupier of Middleton Calf Top then was one William de Dent (Dent is a village at the foot of The Calf mountain) who became known as William Medecalf de Dent Chief Forester of Wensleydale with Langstrothdale. So the origin of the surname Metcalfe in all it's variations of spelling, is said to be derived from Middleton Calf Top." It was all downhill after that (amid much fighting, gambling etc.). At one point they called us "The Yorkshire Clan", and a right bunch of scoundrels we were. Not much has changed, although we tend not to lay seige to neighbours houses with musketeers and billmen quite so much.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Aha! It wasn't a meeting, but a middle. The "Met" in Metcalfe was originally "Mede" (middle), and refers to Middleton Calf Top in Wensleydale. Our ancestor is reputed to be one William Medecalf de Dent, who took the name Medecalf upon settling there. "In the 12th century the newly-formed counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland, and the west riding of Yorkshire were formed, the boundaries ran along the tops of the ranges of hills passing along Holme Fell, Middleton Calf Top, (The Calf, almost 2,200 feet high is the tallest hill in West Yorkshire, almost at the western boundary of the county) and Cragg Hill. "The occupier of Middleton Calf Top then was one William de Dent (Dent is a village at the foot of The Calf mountain) who became known as William Medecalf de Dent Chief Forester of Wensleydale with Langstrothdale. So the origin of the surname Metcalfe in all it's variations of spelling, is said to be derived from Middleton Calf Top." It was all downhill after that (amid much fighting, gambling etc.). At one point they called us "The Yorkshire Clan", and a right bunch of scoundrels we were. Not much has changed, although we tend not to lay seige to neighbours houses with musketeers and billmen quite so much.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
Hmm, I can see some parallels...[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmm, I can see some parallels...[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Nah - we never got into the torture business. Battlefield booty (Hundred Years War) and throwing our lot in with rebels and mercenaries (the Lambert Simnel conspiracy in 1487) were more our game. Mind you, one of our lot did manage to get appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire[^] in 1555. That's when the real gambling started, apparently.
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"