BEER Ch. 5 Driscoll

[Dave Monroe]

"'Driscoll, hi—'" (BE, Ch. 5, p. 45)


Driscoll Padgett

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil ‘descendant of
the messenger’, from eidirsceól ‘go-between’, ‘intermediary’, ‘news
bearer’ (a compound of eidir ‘between’ + scéal ‘story’, ‘news’).
Bearers of this Irish surname claim descent from a single 10th-century
ancestor.

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=driscoll

... from the word eidersceol, which means an intermediary.

http://www.houseofnames.com/driscoll-family-crest

E.g., ...

Julie Driscoll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Driscoll

This interesting surname is a diminutive form of Page, which is of Old
French origin, and an occupational name for a young servant, a
personal attendant in a noble's house, from the Old French, Middle
English "page", ultimately deriving from the Greek "paidion", a boy,
child. Padgett itself contains the intrusive "-d-", due to dialectal
influences, and the diminutive suffix "-ett"; hence, "little page".

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Padgett

English (mainly West Yorkshire): from a Middle English diminutive of
page, a status name for a young servant.

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=padgett

... a reference to Pachet, Normandy, the family's residence prior to
the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

http://www.houseofnames.com/padgett-family-crest

Driscoll Padgett = intermediary page?


"the bitch drink of the nineties"

Zima means "winter" in Slavic languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima

This lemon-lime malt beverage was immensely popular in the years
following its 1993 debut by Coors. It eventually gained a reputation
as a girl's drink and was discontinued in 2008.

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_45


"Fabian's Bit Bucket"

http://www.fabianforte.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Forte

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose
is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and
reformist, rather than revolutionary, means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society

In computing, the bit bucket is jargon for where lost computerized
data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it
is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the
like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place
on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that
important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into
the bit bucket."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket
http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_45


"the Winnie list"

? Cf. http://www.craigslist.org/?


"index cards stuck up next to dumpsters"

What are the implications of the acronym, W.A.S.T.E.?

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13=9780060913076&displayType=readingGuide


"Photoshop filter plug-ins"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop_plugin
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?l=-1&exc=16&event=producthome&s=5&cat=194


Dr. Zizmor (p. 46)

http://www.drzizmormd.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Zizmor

A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_46
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