Saturday, July 5, 2014

Ira Ruskin RIIP

The Deaths in 2014 site lists under July 3: 
Note his surname... a cryptic way of saying "rush kin" and/or "rush in"... and/or "Russian".   Note from his wiki page:
Ira Ruskin (November 12, 1943 – July 3, 2014)
His birthday, November 12th had cropped up in my previous post today, note this excerpt: .
 Alan Richard "Al" Michaels (born November 12, 1944) Simpson friend and sportscaster.
Note the various etymology regarding the word "rush":
 rush (n.2) "a hasty driving forward," late 14c., from rush (v.). Sense of "mass migration of people" (especially to a gold field) is from 1848, American English. Football/rugby sense from 1857. Meaning "surge of pleasure" is from 1960s. Rush hour first recorded 1888. Rush order from 1896.
rush (v.) mid-14c. (implied in rushing), "to drive back or down," from Anglo-French russher, from Old French ruser "to dodge, repel" (see ruse). Meaning "to do something quickly" ...
Fraternity/sorority sense is from 1896 (originally it was what the fraternity did to the student); from 1899 as a noun in this sense. Earlier it was a name on U.S. campuses for various tests of strength or athletic skill between freshmen and sophomores as classes (1860).rush (n.1) plant growing in marshy ground, Old English resc, earlier risc, from Proto-Germanic *rusk- (cognates: Middle Low Germanrusch, Middle High German rusch, German Rausch, West Frisian risk, Dutch rusch), from PIE *rezg- "to plait, weave, wind" (cognates: Latin restis "cord, rope"). 
Note the last one "rusk" and "risc".  And with the "weave" element, I'm reminded of 33-- ##  (the number 3 shares the same key as the # symbol which is the graphic equivalent to the warp and weft of weaving pattern, and designed as such to communicate to us "weave/build"... and connected to the Freemasons. 

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