opposisms

btw, I have found out the other day, that I often use "opposisms" also...

and while I find it funny, I am often met with blank stares by the kids.

like little dude and I were talking about toys the other day and it got on to the subject of Yo-Yo's...

and of course, it made me think of Yo-Yo Mar...

he did think that the name was funny and inquired as to who he was, I mimed it to him and made noise that I thought sounded like a cello but it sounded more like a washboard being played by Guitar Hero III ® wanna-bes...

but then, I started telling him that I knew Yo-Yo's brother, So-So Par...

he rolled his eyes side ways while he "grinned" a Mona Lisa's smile and then had one of those puzzled looks....

it's OK, I forgave him, I told him he'd get it in about 15 years and that one day, I would find myself awake in the middle of the night hearing him laugh because he would then, get my jokes....

I anxiously await that day....no, I can't wait for that day...wait, hmmmmmmm...well, that day might never come, because I am not sure if Yo-Yo Mar would still be around, but Yo-Yo's Son, might...

I wonder if his daugher would be Mimi Mar and his son would be He-He Mar...of course, let's not forget his cousin: Fifi Apr, and Gigi May.

(to be serious and In-sequitur for a moment, not sure if there is such a word as in-sequitur,but I depress, again. Yo Yo Mar, in So So Par's case, OK, slaps self, get serious....

Yo in Mar's case, means to swim. His last name, Mar, in his case, means Horse.

The chinese philosophy has a lot to do with the water. And horses were vital to their livelihoods and economy especially in ancient China, where cities and states and countries were taken by how good their horses and horsemen were.

So in Mar's case, his name means, "to swim, to swim, horse"
in Chinese, we say our last names, first.

So, it means: "horse(y), swim and swim!"

I cannot speak on Yo Yo's behalf or his parents behalf. But I think they named Yo Yo not because they wanted him to be a ball or two cylinders on a string. But that they wanted him to always swim upstream, like a horse: of course, of course....)