From: Jlundell@JLPHOTO.com Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.games.design] Re: MEET YOUR MATCH Date: 6 Feb 1998 13:37:29 +0100 Subject: Re: MEET YOUR MATCH From: Noah Falstein Newsgroups: rec.games.design [Submitter's note: This thread started with the typo "ARE YOU READY FOR EOMANCE?"] John Scott wrote: > In article , Nick Wedd > wrote: > > "Eo" is Greek for "dawn", and is used in science to denote something > > very early, such as the eocene period. So an "eomancer" might be > > someone who deals with very early things, such as the big bang, > maybe? > My Collins Dictionary says that -mancy denotes divination of some > sort, so > following on from Nick Wedds work, I would submit that an Eomancer > would > be someone who could predict when dawn was going to happen. Fascinating! Therefore we may perhaps assume that the original poster, asking "Are you ready for eomance?" was in fact trying to ascertain whether our world-views were solid enough to tolerate the presence of someone who could predict the next sunrise. Perhaps he his considering a career in meteorology and is concerned that too many people will see his predictions of dawn as some sort of dark magic and rise up against him. Why *dark* magic you may ask? It's well known that it's always darkest before the dawn.