Date: May 24th, 2009 01:55 am (UTC)From:arcanetrivia
Apparently Elethia/Elethea may be a variant from Althea, which does mean "healer" or "wholesome". So yeah. Weird, eh?
On the topic of interesting coincidences, a couple of weeks ago while Gord and I were at a local shop called Cooks Junction to pick up a second Aeropress for Gord to take back to Canada as a gift for someone). They had a display at the front of the store with Armetale tableware, including this goblet which I immediately picked up and fondled and thought would make a nice replacement "bonding" cup (since I'd managed to ruin the one I had been using). I wasn't prepared to buy it that day, but I made a note of it because of the nice way it sat in my hand.
I went back today to buy the thing, and they said, oh, we moved all that stuff down to our sister store down the street which is going out of business, what was it you were looking for? I described the goblet and the clerk said yeah, I think they had one of those. The past tense worried me, since with closeout sale that would probably mean "the last one ever", but not only was it still there, but I got it for 30% off from the sale.
All this is mildly interesting, but what really added flavour was that this second shop's name was Janus. (See verus_janus/janus/janus if that doesn't make sense.)
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Date: May 24th, 2009 01:55 am (UTC)From:On the topic of interesting coincidences, a couple of weeks ago while Gord and I were at a local shop called Cooks Junction to pick up a second Aeropress for Gord to take back to Canada as a gift for someone). They had a display at the front of the store with Armetale tableware, including this goblet which I immediately picked up and fondled and thought would make a nice replacement "bonding" cup (since I'd managed to ruin the one I had been using). I wasn't prepared to buy it that day, but I made a note of it because of the nice way it sat in my hand.
I went back today to buy the thing, and they said, oh, we moved all that stuff down to our sister store down the street which is going out of business, what was it you were looking for? I described the goblet and the clerk said yeah, I think they had one of those. The past tense worried me, since with closeout sale that would probably mean "the last one ever", but not only was it still there, but I got it for 30% off from the sale.
All this is mildly interesting, but what really added flavour was that this second shop's name was Janus. (See