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Law revisor[edit]

Is there an occupation of law revisor (i.e. someone who prepares a revised edition of the laws or state code)? And is it as widespread as that of law librarian>?—azuki (talk · contribs · email) 10:58, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Law commission.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:10, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sanguine Temperament: Lack of Blood, or too much of it?[edit]

The article on Humorism states that the sanguine temperament is associated with the Blood. For the other humors, it goes on to say that the temperament is caused by an excess of the humor: for example, an excess of Black Bile makes one melancholic. However, sanguine means "lack of blood", and the article is unclear on whether it is an excess of Blood, or the lack of it, that makes a person sanguine. Can someone point me towards a reputable online resource that answers this question? OldTimeNESter (talk) 17:27, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sanguine does not mean lack of blood.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:59, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What do you know, you are correct, Baseball Bugs. I thought I read that many years ago, and since then I must have assumed that since "sans" means without, "sanguine" meant "without blood". Thanks for the correction! OldTimeNESter (talk) 18:49, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One of those language oddities! ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:54, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NESter isn't the first I've seen fooled like this. I think it has to do with "exsanguinated" being used a million times for every one time a writer or speaker feels the need to point out a character's full of the stuff. If you never see a word's opposite, it kind of ceases to have an opposite after a while. You start hearing sanguianything, you start thinking vampires and razorblades. Roughly the same deal with terminators and exterminators, but less confusing in hindsight. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:26, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikt:sanguis means blood, English sanguine means optimistic, and comes from the nothing of that humour being the dominant one in a person's personality, not from a fluid volume assay. μηδείς (talk) 04:29, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball Bugs's link above says "thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood".

To back that up, Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories (p. 235) says: "Later, Galen systematized the relationship of the Empedoclean / Hippocratic notions of elements/humors into a general personality theory of temperaments where an excess of blood characterized the sanguine (warmhearted, cheerful) person". Alansplodge (talk) 12:12, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware of the ancient origins, but the system evolved to the point where there were five humors and Phlegmatic was redefined as the balanced personality type; certainly not due to an excess of phlegm. At that point it was a matter of hot/cold/wet/dry analogy, and the actual "balance" of liquids was discounted. I'd also like to see someone with a gallon of black bile. Nowadays we use the term sanguine, and it has nothing to do with an excess of blood, although it may have been though to do so at Galen's time. We could also look at the history of passion, which was a terrible thing for the greeks, and an ultimate aspiration for most modern inspirational speakers. μηδείς (talk) 17:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Balloon dance music[edit]

What's that magic-show-end-of-the-pier-type music used for the naked balloon dance? See The Greatest Show on Legs or video clips all over YouTube. Thanks. 86.187.169.231 (talk) 22:50, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One of the Youtube clips had the name in the comments: Tea for Two. Here is a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLDHCDz7S2g. OldTimeNESter (talk) 00:32, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See also Tea for Two (song). Alansplodge (talk) 10:54, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is indeed that famous 1958 cha-cha-chá version by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra starring Warren Covington that is most associated. The sort of tune that the lovely Margarita Pracatan might have enjoyed banging out, I feel. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:42, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... watching the naked balloon dancers accompanied by Anita's fast-paced version of T 4 2 might have been fun too. ---Sluzzelin talk 07:14, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]