OK, so I'm super excited for the trip next spring to South Padre and while I'll save my comments and recommendations for Samantha (like a need for a place to surf and skate), I do feel there is something that needs to be brought up before things progress too quickly. (Also, this might help alleviate Nick's worries about choosing the spot the next time.)
So I'll get straight to the point... Can we please call it something other than "reunion"?
Every time I hear the word "reunion", I'm reminded of going up to some canyon and either being forced to eat egg salad sandwiches, trying to avoid the wrath of some aunt on a rampage, or being reminded about how bad of dancers we are compared to some others in the family.
While I enjoy these memories, I think we need to change the name. So this blog is an open invitation to everyone to come up with a new name for these family vacations (i.e., Tustfest '07, or something better). We might not be able to have Mike's reunion jokes, but at least we would have better t-shirts than previous reunions.
7 comments:
How about Tustifam '08?
I like that, Kim. Great idea. If it gets people there, we can call if anything you like.
How about Tustimony Meeting '08? or Tusticullapalooza '08?
Hey, did you know that testimony and testicle share a common etymology?
Okay, since nobody is biting, I'll go ahead and satisfy your curiosity:
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
The resemblance between testimony, testify, testis, and testicle shows an etymological relationship, but linguists are not agreed on precisely how English testis came to have its current meaning. The Latin testis originally meant “witness,” and etymologically means “third (person) standing by”: the te– part comes from an older tri–, a combining form of the word for “three,” and –stis is a noun derived from the Indo-European root st- meaning “stand.” How this also came to refer to the body part(s) is disputed. An old theory has it that the Romans placed their right hands on their testicles and swore by them before giving testimony in court. Another theory says that the sense of testicle in Latin testis is due to a calque, or loan translation, from Greek. The Greek noun parastats means “defender (in law), supporter” (para– “by, alongside,” as in paramilitary and –stats from histanai, “to stand”). In the dual number, used in many languages for naturally occurring, contrasting, or complementary pairs such as hands, eyes, and ears, parastats had the technical medical sense “testicles,” that is “two glands side by side.” The Romans simply took this sense of parastats and added it to testis, the Latin word for legal supporter, witness.
Thanks for that answer. I was trying to figure out what etymology meant. I didn't know if Sis. Donovan was involoved in any way.
Anyhoo, while I was on the treadmill this morning I thought of a couple of other names for your perusal.
1. Tustifiesta
2. T-Retreat
3. Tusta-musta-be-there.
In response to the etymology of testicles, I wonder if our name Tustison is derived from Testis-son, meaning son of Testis (which would seem to make more sense than the oft quoted root of our name, son of Tusti. Obviously we're all sons of Testis, so that would be a more logical conclusion.
BTW, keep the names coming... nice additions, Mom.
As important as the name is...when is everyone availabe? FYI: things are cheaper before the last week in may. I need to start planning here.
...Mike thought of Tusti-fun in the sun.
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