I was unsure where to put this thread. Whenever I have doubts I usually come here.
Anyway, last night my wife treated me to a Celtic Dinner at her women’s club. We had gone to an Italian Dinner there not too long ago and it was great fun. So I was ready for another fun evening with her and “the girls” and whoever the girls brought along. It was an opportunity to sing some Irish songs (and a Scots one or two) and to swap some lies.
For the meal we had roast beef and Colcannon which is a mixture of mashed potatoes and cabbage, and which was very tasty. As soon as the emcee had announced the menu, the mention of Colcannon made me start trying to remember the sound-alike I remembered from some book I read a while back on Ireland, Irish history, Irish myth, or Irish fiction, and I couldn’t remember for sure if it was Leon Uris’s Trinity or Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes where the name of Cúchulainn (another reference) had showed up. But I remembered wherever it was that Kuh-huh-lin was an approximation of how to pronounce it and how similar that was to Colcannon (at least to me).
Then as I got to thinking about it, I wondered if Lovecraft had decided that Cthulhu was a cool name because of Cúchulainn or just what, so I decided to bug you people about it all.
If you have ideas on these issues, please chime in. If you have other words or names that pop to mind because of the links in the thread title, feel free to add to the word association.
It’s something to think and talk about anyway…
