Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HenHanna Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Possible accidental sighting of a newsgroup participant's name Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:54:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:54:42 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b85dcc0c13748069fae9a1e48d50b27c"; logging-data="455327"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19WAjgaIO3PkbxR2CaMNwV6nu4igVD6CV0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NsSf4FIEIPeoHE8UkKprBJDSkrU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2306 On 6/25/2024 3:58 PM, Peter Moylan wrote: > On 26/06/24 06:41, Stefan Ram wrote: > >> I was combing through the interwebs for the lowdown on this whole >> "electromagnetic mass" of the electron deal (J.J. Thomson, Abraham, >> Lorentz, and that crew) when I stumbled upon this gnarly footnote in >> "Poincaré on Mass-Energy Equivalence". Then it hit me like a >> Mavericks wave - the author was some dude called "P. Moylan"! > > It ain't me, babe. Just a coincidence of names. > > My uncle is currently trying to organise a Moylan family reunion. > Perhaps I should write to this fellow in Pennsylvania with an invitation. > > That reminds me. An AUE regular once asked me whether I was related to > the linguist Séamus Ó Maoláin. I contacted him, and indeed he was from > the same small region that my people came from. So there's probably a > connection, but we could find the missing links. He died three years > ago, so we likely never will. > Moylan is Irish? Hugh "Blazes" Boylan -- Works as a musical impresario, managing Molly Bloom's upcoming concert tour (which is a pretext for his visit on Bloomsday). iirc... he is hung like a horse.