Congratulations to Hippolyte Pixii for winning my Name of the Week award!
Posthumous congrats, I’m afraid, as he passed away in 1835.
Hippolyte Pixii is famous for building an early model magneto.
Magnetos are like dynamos, but produce alternating current (AC), while dynamos produce direct current (DC).
And if you win a pub quiz with any of that information, I get 10% of your hamper.
I stumbled across Hippolyte while researching dynamos for The Cat Wore Black.
Before realising I didn’t need any of it after all.
But it proves that, shall we say, distinctive names weren’t invented by modern out-of-touch celebrities and billionaire horse tranquillizer enthusiasts.
I feel Elon Musk – to pick a random name out of the air – would be all over a name like that.
Especially if you told him that Pixii meant, I don’t know, 6-711.
P being the Roman numeral for the 6-7 meme, and IXII being an alternative, less-woke way to write 11.
9 and 2, see? Sorry, I’ve clearly made the coffee too strong this morning.
But suggest it to Elon the next time you bump into him.
He’s always on the lookout for great new names for his growing army of children.
Speaking of which…
A man takes an evening walk to find the foxes he can hear every time the sun goes down.
But as day turns to night, he gets lost.
And learns the noise comes from something much worse in this week’s unsettling bedtime story, “Foxes at Night” over on YouTube now!
Chat soon,
Morgan
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