cyclops

[James Wilson]

This is inspired by Futurama. Shouldn't cyclopi have bad distance
judgement?
It could affect their Bows/Throw.

James
my first post so please don't attack me if I have the protocol or the plural of
cyclops wrong

[Alex McMorris]

> This is inspired by Futurama. Shouldn't cyclopi have bad distance
> judgement?
> It could affect their Bows/Throw.

Ever seen Krull? Didn't bother him. They are magical beasts so they should
be alright. For that matter I think Headless should die as soon as they are
created because, hey, they've already been decapitated :)

[Michael Barnes]

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"Alex McMorris" <mcmo...@proaxis.com> wrote:

I thought the point was that Ulysses' cyclops pal kept throwing rocks at him.

Then again, maybe a cyclops should be easier to blind than a biclops because
you only need get one eye.

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[mark]

Michael Barnes wrote:

BICLOPS!!
Now theres a cool term, although i wonder whether cy means 1 and clops means
eye. Any classically taught people out there? That is to say clever people who
know things like latin and other things of no use in the real world.
Mark

[mark edward hardwidge]

mark <mark...@etl.ericsson.se> wrote:
> BICLOPS!! Now theres a cool term, although i wonder whether cy
> means 1 and clops means eye. Any classically taught people out
> there? That is to say clever people who

Cyclops = circle eye (kuklOps = kuklos (circle) + Ops (eye) in Greek)

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[mark]

mark edward hardwidge wrote:

Well, how's that for service?
Thanks.

[William Tanksley]

On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:20:29 +0000, mark wrote:
>BICLOPS!!
>Now theres a cool term, although i wonder whether cy means 1 and clops means
>eye. Any classically taught people out there? That is to say clever people who

>know things like latin and other things of no use in the real world.

It's greek (of course, that's what Homer it in), and Cyclops means
"wheel-eye". It connotes a HUGE eye. Cycl, wheel or loop (English:
cycle); ops, eye (English: optical). A two-eyed cyclops would be a
bicyclops.

>Mark

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[Michael Barnes]

In message <38203973...@etl.ericsson.se>
mark <mark...@etl.ericsson.se> wrote:

> mark edward hardwidge wrote:

>
> > mark <mark...@etl.ericsson.se> wrote:
> > > BICLOPS!! Now theres a cool term, although i wonder whether cy
> > > means 1 and clops means eye. Any classically taught people out
> > > there? That is to say clever people who
> >

> > Cyclops = circle eye (kuklOps = kuklos (circle) + Ops (eye) in Greek)
> >
> > --
> > Mark E. Hardwidge
> > hard...@uiuc.edu
>
> Well, how's that for service?
> Thanks.
>

I was close with Biclops for thing-with-two-eyes.

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[Gwidon S. Naskrent]

On 3 Nov 1999 10:33:56 GMT, wtan...@hawking.armored.net (William
Tanksley) wrote:

>It's greek (of course, that's what Homer it in), and Cyclops means
>"wheel-eye". It connotes a HUGE eye. Cycl, wheel or loop (English:
>cycle); ops, eye (English: optical). A two-eyed cyclops would be a
>bicyclops.

I believe the name originated because cyclops were believed to have a
perfectly circular eye, not elliptical as humans do. Their visual
representations in many computer games second this...

Gwidon S. Naskrent (nask...@artemida.amu.edu.pl)
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