Seems like my clients so frequently ask me to do the impossible, that I’m trying to think up a humorous way to say that one of my specialties is pulling rabbits out of hats.
Clearly it needs to be “[hat related term]-lagomorphic extractions”, but I can’t think of the hat-related term.
Any suggestions from the Teeming Millions?
Thanks!
How about a specific hat? Bowler, derby? Bowler-bunny separation specialist?
Typically bunnies were pulled out of top hats - why not go for the alternate form ‘topper’?
We’re getting close … “millinery” is probably the technically correct term, but what’s the adjective form? millineric?
bowler-bunny separation is pretty good, but I was hoping for something a bit more technical-sounding.
Maybe the hat-specific angle is the way to go … not necessarily the right hat, but fedora-lagomorphic extraction has the right ring to it.
It’s all bovine scatology anyway …
bleach
January 6, 2011, 11:18pm
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Well the collapsible, springy top hats are referred to as a “gibus”, named after Antoine Gibus, its inventor.
It’d be really obscure but how does “Gibus-lagomorphic extractions” strike you? It sounds vaguely like bioengineering.
I always think millinery refers to women’s hats, and I’ve never seen a magician remove a rabbit from a flower-infested lady’s hat.
I’d vote for Haberdashery-lagomorphic Extraction if I get a vote.
Yllaria
January 7, 2011, 12:51am
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I’m trying to find ‘hat’ in Latin. The Latin version of The Cat in the Hat is Cattus Petasatus . Although I’m sure that “from the hat” has a different suffix that “in/with/whatever the hat.”
One online English to Latin translator lists these as the translation of hat:
PILLEUS
PILEUS
PILEUM
GALERUM
PILLEUM
GALERUS
APEX
PETASUS
So petasus might be close to what you want. Maybe someone who knows Latin can fix it up.
“I Bullwinkled a rabbit out of a hat”
Gary_T
January 7, 2011, 5:01am
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“Petaso-lagomorphic extractions” sounds good to me.
We may have a winner-- that one definitely has the feel I’m looking for, although “petaso” may be a bit too obscure of a term.
At least now I know there isn’t some really obvious term I couldn’t think of.
More suggestions still welcome!
Quartz
January 7, 2011, 10:57am
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Lagomorphic means rabbit-shaped, so that’s not what you want.
How about lago-petasic extractions instead?
ETA or lago-petasatic but lago-petasic sounds better IMO.
Did anybody else read the topic and come in here to say “Cunning”?
Quartz
January 7, 2011, 1:35pm
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That only refers to plans, not solutions.
I used the word innovative for this on my CV.
Could we call you a Wand-Wielding Trans-Brim Leporidae Extractionist?
BINGO! “wand-wielding” makes it too long, but “trans-brim leporidae extractionist” is perfect!
Thanks, all!
And yes, Quartz , “innovative” is the choice for more formal communications.
Gary_T
January 7, 2011, 5:49pm
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Not in any dictionary I’ve seen. It’s the adjective form of lagomorph , and a lagomorph is a hare or rabbit.