Comments on: Loon

By: leonard

leonard — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:43:58 +0000

[[["Made in America"]]]…is it ?…[goon]

By: darlingj

darlingj — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:14:30 +0000

I’m certainly a lunatic by all definitions. Proud of it.

A ‘Moon Child’ by birth (Cancer).

Other aspects would require investigation.

By: wordreet

wordreet — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:08:27 +0000

Sorry to be reviving an old word, but I’m having fun so there!
I often wondered about the ‘Loon’ as a name for a bird, but now realize that it’s merely an American name for what we in the UK call a ‘diver’. Which is a type of waterfowl rather than a single species.

Anyway jcnick mentioned folks believing that cats and dogs might be affected by the moon. And this reminded me of a super poem.

The Cat and the Moon

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

– William Butler Yeats

By: sebastian81

sebastian81 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:32:30 +0000

Hello Hotforwords,
Just a simple question, where did you find the reference to the dutch word loen?
Since I’m dutch this comment interested me, and I tried to find it in my dutch dictionary, and I couldn’t find it.
An other interesting thing is how is it that the English refer to people from the Netherlands (Nederland or Lage Landen (low lands)) as the Dutch?

By: dvx216

dvx216 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:59:35 +0000

The moon effects the tides but since we are a large percent water in are body I would guess we also are effected be the moon

By: Chemikal

Chemikal — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:49:52 +0000

I got it the 1st time, but I enjoyed listening to the recap. explanation too

By: matalexwolf

matalexwolf — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:13:53 +0000

Foppish…..

By: sjk

sjk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:37:51 +0000

This is the last post on iTunes. Is it a problem with iTunes or is there a new feed?

By: mijj

mijj — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:34:51 +0000

oh … i had the sound off. .. you were just highlighting what he said.

I guess it was too good to be true.

By: mijj

mijj — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:32:48 +0000

WTF .. i don’t think i can have seen this video properly before now!!! … Marina .. did you label Bill O’Reilly a loon?