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no cabeçalho, pintura de Paul Béliveau
É que começa a ser estranho... estão a vender os nomes da lista a troco de dinheiro? A usar-se dela para fazer chantagem a alguém? A pedir favores políticos? Isto é muito suspeito e passa-se aqui alguma coisa...
... e onde se prova que a maioria não tem imaginação nenhuma...
ABBA
An acronym for the first names of the band members: Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad.
AC/DC -
A band member saw AC/DC on a sewing machine. It stood for 'Alternating Current / Direct Current'. The band didn't realize it was also slang for bi-sexual, which caused a few misunderstandings in their early days.
THE BEATLES
Original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe came up with the Beetles in 1960, which was a play on Buddy Holly's Crickets. John Lennon later altered the spelling to Beatals before meeting 19-year-old poet Royston Ellis who suggested B-E-A-T-L-E-S as a double play on both beat poetry and beat music.
BEE GEES
Although the press often refers to them as the 'Brothers Gibb', the band said that they took their name from two friends that helped them out in their early days... Bill Goode and a disc jockey named Bill Gates.
BOB DYLAN
Robert Zimmerman was a big fan of poet Dylan Thomas.
CLASH
Taken from a newspaper headline describing 'A Clash With Police'
COMMODORES
In 1967, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, six students decided to merge two local bands, "the Mystics" and "the Jays". Legend has it, that one of the group members tossed a dictionary into the air, and when it landed, pointed to a random word on the page it opened to. The word was "Commodores".
CRAZY HORSE
Neil Young's long-time backup band took their name in homage to the Oglala Lakota Indian chief who fought to keep Europeans from settling in what would become the Western United States.
CREEDANCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Originally called The Golliwogs, unconfirmed reports say the band took their new name from Norvel Creedence, a friend of band leader John Fogerty. John's favorite beer was called Clearwater, which, after it disappeared from the market for a time, was re-introduced by another brewery. The result: Creedence Clearwater Revival.
DEEP PURPLE
Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother liked the Bing Crosby song "Deep Purple".
DEPECHE MODE
A Techno-Pop group from Basildon, Essex, England, they took their name from a French fashion magazine.
DIE STRAITS
Their name describes the financial situation they were in when forming the band.
DOORS
The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a poem by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite".
THE EAGLES
Their name was inspired by the Byrds, who were a big influence on the Eagles. They started out as the Teen Kings and later, the Emergencies. Don Henley recalled "we wanted something simple and we wanted something American and we wanted something that was easy to remember and something with a little spiritual value. (Eagles) sounded very American football teams and street gangs."
ELTON JOHN
Reginald Dwight took his stage name from two other British musicians, Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.
(hoje fico pelo 'e')
Este ano há, entre os alunos, um Iago, uma Cássia e uma Emília :)
Estive a ver no blogue do Ramiro Marques que há propostas de revisão curricular - ainda não fui ver mas já desgostei dos nomes. Secundário inferior e superior....que nomes tão mal postos, a dar ideia que uns são inferiores a outros. As palavras com que se nomeiam as coisas são muito importantes para as dignificar...ou não dignificar.
Depois achei ridícula a ideia de uma hora semanal de educação sexual e cívica, embora não tenha percebido se é na mesma hora, quer dizer, meia hora de sexo e a seguir de civismo? Ou primeiro aulas de civismo e depois sexo...lol. Parece-me muito sexo, uma hora por semana.
Vou ler a proposta.
Isto dos nomes das pessoas vem por ondas ou modas. Agora os rapazes são todos Afonso ou Dinis ou Rodrigo.
Até há muito pouco tempo praticamente ninguém tinha o meu nome. Basta dizer que em mais de vinte anos de aulas nunca tive uma aluna Beatriz. Quando era mais nova detestava o meu nome porque as únicas pessoas que tinham o meu nome eram, a minha avó materna -de quem herdei o nome- e uma prima velhota. Achava que Beatriz era nome de velha. Com o tempo a coisa foi melhorando porque comecei a dizer a mim própria que partilhava o nome com algumas rainhas e isso tinha graça. Agora, de repente, em qualquer sítio só ouço 'ó Beatriz' - volto-me por reflexo e é claro: não é a mim que chamam mas sim uma miudinha qualquer com 3 ou 4 anos. Já enjoa, que diabo! Começo a não achar outra vez graça ao nome, mas agora porque parece que toda a gente o tem!
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