verb eponyms

[James Smith]

Interesting.  I found two quite different meanings for
"scully" on the internet, both of which Scully did on
the "X-Files"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006SH25C/102-7579119-3665744?v=glance

...So vividly did they bring their characters to life
that the expression "to Scully" someone has become
part of the language (i.e., to doubt someone).

and

http://members.tripod.com/slayersrealm/encynz.html

verb: to Scully someone...
To try to explain the inexplicable to someone by means
of scientific rationalizations.

--- Jeff Prucher <jprucher at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> There're pander and sherlock.  Michael Adams reports
> "Scully" and "Keyser Soze"
> in "Slayer Slang" (there are probably more such
> Buffyisms but those are the two
> I found with a quick glance).  And, by a rather
> circuitous route, "pants,"
> which is derived from pantaloon, which is in turn
> derived from the Commedia
> character Pantaloon/Pantalone.
>
> Jeff Prucher
>
> --- Tom Kysilko <pds at VISI.COM> wrote:
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> > While driving around today I heard someone on NPR
> claim that the only verb
> > eponyms she could think of without "linguistic
> decoration", i.e. without
> > affixes such as -ize, were "Bork" and "Bobbit".
> (She had already mentioned
> > "boycott" as an eponym, but perhaps she doesn't
> think of it as a verb.)
> >
> > I thought surely there must be more, but could
> come up with none on my
> > own.  An Internet search got me "Fisk", as well as
> "Fudge" whose status as
> > an eponym is dubious.
> >
> > Interestingly, Bork, Bobbit, Fisk, and Boycott
> were all victims of the
> > action bearing their name.  My approach was to try
> to think of
> > perpetrators, especially in sports, but I could
> think of none.
> >
> > Can anyone think of any others?
> >
> >    Tom Kysilko        Practical Data Services
> >    pds at visi.com       Saint Paul MN USA
> >            http://www.visi.com/~pds
> >
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
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