“Benoist” is an archaic spelling of the French version of the name “Benedict”.
Over time, the “s” gradually stopped being pronounced. Eventually, it was dropped from the spelling of the name, with a circumflex added to show that there once had been an “s”: “Benoît”.
The name Benedict was sometimes spelled “Benedick”, as in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, where Benedick and Beatrice are a comically unlikely pair or lovers.
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“The Parting Glass” is the name of a Scottish and Irish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was purportedly the most popular parting song sung in Scotland before Robert Burns wrote “Auld Lang Syne”.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2018!
"The Parting Glass” — Peter Hollens
(Lyrics)
*Of all the money that e’er I had
I’ve spent it in good company
And all the harm that e’er I’ve done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I’ve done for want of wit
To mem’ry now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Goodnight and joy be with you all
So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
And gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all
[ — humming — ]
Of all the comrades that e’er I had
Are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e’er I had
Would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
And gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all
Fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befalls
And gently rise and softly call
Goodnight and joy be to you all
Goodnight and joy be to you all*
YouTube, Peter Hollens:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2018!
In a somewhat related vein, the Dubliners and some other Irish bands conclude their concerts with “Bugger Off, You Bastards”, which goes somewhat like this:
*Chorus:
So bugger off, you bastards bugger off! (Fuck You!)
Bugger off, you bastards bugger off! (Fuck You!)
Like a herd of bloody swine that refuse to leave the trough
You’ll get no more this evening so you bastards bugger off
Well you’ve been a lovely audience, but oh the time does pass.
So don’t you all be lettin’ the door hit you in the ass.
You’ve been a splendid audience, but enough is enough.
We’d take it very kindly if you’d all just bugger off!*
Begorrah, y’all.
NM
And Póg mo thón.
“The Load-Out / Stay” is a song co-written and performed live by Jackson Browne from his 1977 album Running on Empty. It is a tribute to his roadies and fans, as Jackson Browne sings that he never wants his concerts to end — we want to play just a little bit longer; please, please stay. The song was recorded live at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on August 27, 1977, as part of the tour in support of the album The Pretender. David Lindley played steel guitar and sang a famous falsetto verse.
Lyrics:
*Now the seats are all empty
Let the roadies take the stage
Pack it up and tear it down
They’re the first to come and last to leave
Working for that minimum wage
They’ll set it up in another town
Tonight the people were so fine
They waited there in line
And when they got up on their feet they made the show
And that was sweet…
But I can hear the sound
Of slamming doors and folding chairs
And that’s a sound they’ll never know
Now roll them cases out and lift them amps
Haul them trusses down and get’em up them ramps
'Cause when it comes to moving me
You guys are the champs
But when that last guitar’s been packed away
You know that I still want to play
So just make sure you got it all set to go
Before you come for my piano
But the band’s on the bus
And they’re waiting to go
We’ve got to drive all night and do a show in Chicago
or Detroit, I don’t know
We do so many shows in a row
And these towns all look the same
We just pass the time in our hotel rooms
And wander 'round backstage
Till those lights come up and we hear that crowd
And we remember why we came
Now we got country and western on the bus
R and B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
We’ve got rural scenes & magazines
We’ve got truckers on the CB
We’ve got Richard Pryor on the video
We got time to think of the ones we love
While the miles roll away
But the only time that seems too short
Is the time that we get to play
People you’ve got the power over what we do
You can sit there and wait
Or you can pull us through
Come along, sing the song
You know you can’t go wrong
'Cause when that morning sun comes beating down
You’re going to wake up in your town
But we’ll be scheduled to appear
A thousand miles away from here*
YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUEZx5XmwA
“Jackson” is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber and first recorded by Wheeler. It is best known as a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached number two on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1967.
Andrew **Jackson **served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected President, he served as both a Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and was a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. While still a justice, he was appointed commander of the Tennessee militia. He later volunteered to serve in the United States army during the War of 1812, and he and his troops won a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans.
Andrew Jackson’s parents were born in present-day Northern Ireland.
Exactly where Andrew Jackson was born is disputed. Both North Carolina and South Carolina claim to be his birth place. The Waxhaws wilderness where Jackson was born was so remote that the precise border between North and South Carolina had yet to be surveyed. In an 1824 letter, Jackson wrote that he had been told that he had been born in his uncle’s South Carolina home, but dueling historic markers in both states still claim to be the true locations of Jackson’s birthplace.
North Carolina: (ncPedia.org)
South Carolina: (roadSideAmerica.com)
President Donald Trump is an admirer of his Democratic predecessor Andrew Jackson. He moved Jackson’s portrait into the Oval Office, and visited the late President’s home and tomb at The Hermitage near Nashville, Tenn.
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from a Berlin merchant. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on December 7th, Saint Catherine’s Day.
The collections of the museum comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings, including the Winter Palace, which is a former residence of Russian emperors.
The single longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway. The 9200 kilometer (or 5700 mile) railway departs in Moscow (located in European Russia) and crosses into Asia. It then makes its way to the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok at its eastern end. The entire journey non-stop will take you 152 hours and 27 minutes to complete.
In 2007, the Washington Post referred to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as “an arena-rock juggernaut” and described their music as “Pink Floyd meets Yes and The Who at Radio City Music Hall.”
A juggernaut in current English usage is a literal or metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. This usage originated in the mid-nineteenth century as an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars of Jagannath Temple in Puri, which were reputed to crush devotees under their wheels.
Juggernaut, a 1974 movie starring Richard Harris, Omar Shariff, and Anthony Hopkins, is about a terrorist who places several bombs aboard a cruise ship. The movie was inspired by real events aboard QE2 in May 1972 when Royal Marines from the Special Boat Service were parachuted on to the ship because of a bomb hoax.
In January 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef off the coast of Italy and tipped over. Thirty-two passengers died, 64 were injured, and one was missing and never found. It took a year and eight months to get the ship upright again, and another ten months to get it back to the port to be dismantled.
(The last body, that of a waiter from India, was recovered when the ship was raised)
The Concordia University System (CUS) is an organization of ten colleges and universities in the United States that are operated by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). All ten institutions are named “Concordia”–a reference to the Latin title of The Book of Concord, the collection of Lutheran confessions–and all include professional church work programs as part of their curricula.
The ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System are:
Concordia College–New York in Bronxville, New York
Concordia College Alabama in Selma, Alabama
Concordia University Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Concordia University Texas in Austin, Texas
Concordia University Chicago in River Forest, Illinois
Concordia University Irvine in Irvine, California
Concordia University in Portland, Oregon
Concordia University, Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Concordia University, Nebraska in Seward, Nebraska
Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, Wisconsin