Diogenes [The Synic] What does your name mean?

[Lobsang]

I’ve always wondered. What does the ‘Diogenes’ bit mean?
On a related note, I only just found out that ‘tomndeb’ is ‘tom n deb’ as in “Tom and Deb”. Until now I thought ‘tomndeb’ was some unusual clever word.

[Tamerlane]

@Lobsang

I’ve always wondered. What does the ‘Diogenes’ bit mean?

It’s a Greek name:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/diogsino.htm

• Tamerlane

[Lobsang]

Er, that’s ‘Cynic’ with a ‘C’ rather than an ‘S’. i.e. the correct spelling of the word.
Quick reply Tamerlane, thanks

[smartini]

What does Lobsang mean?

[professor_folk]

…stereotypically represented by an old man with a lantern searching for an honest man. Am I right? Seem to recall that from somewhere.

[Lobsang]

@smartini

What does Lobsang mean?

Originally I think it’s a standard tibettan first name, but more to the point it’s the name of a Discworld character. From ‘Thief of Time’.

(In case you didn’t know Discworld is a fictional world created by author Terry Pratchett)

[roger_thornhill]

@professor folk

…stereotypically represented by an old man with a lantern searching for an honest man. Am I right? Seem to recall that from somewhere.

That would be Diogenes searching for Liberal.

[Polycarp]

Meanwhile, may I present to you all, and especially to our Manxman,

Dr. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and the straight dope about him. More Rampa-nt weirdness.

[Lobsang]

@Polycarp

Meanwhile, may I present to you all, and especially to our Manxman,

Dr. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and the straight dope about him. More Rampa-nt weirdness.

I am familiar with Mr Rampa. (google vanity searches) but I have never read much into him. I shall read the linked pages at work tomorrow. I am off to the land of nod now.
P.S. Polycarp You are the Q.E.D. of non-technical knowledge.

[rowrrbazzle]

Diogenes is the subject of a chapter in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers from the 2nd century AD.

Translations differ.

http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dldiogenes.htm

On one occasion he was working with his hands [masturbating] in the market-place, and said, “I wish I could rub my stomach in the same way, and so avoid hunger.” …

Once at a banquet, some of the guests threw him bones, as if he had been a dog; so he, as he went away, put up his leg against them as if he had been a dog in reality.

http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/ancient_lit/diogenes_life.htm

On being asked by somebody, " What sort of a man do you consider Diogenes to be ? " " A Socrates gone mad," said he.

Being asked what he had done to be called a dog, he said, " I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals"…

Some one took him into a magnificent house and warned him not to spit, whereupon having cleared his throat he discharged the phlegm into the man’s face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle.

When some strangers expressed a wish to see Demosthenes, he stretched out his middle finger and said, “There goes the demagogue of Athens.”

[Cisco]

Didn’t Tenzing Norgay have a son named Lobsang? Lobsang Sherpa Norgay or somesuch?