SW10/WWW: Superhuman World Wiki: Toledo Torpedo!

[Drew Nilium]

On 5/22/2020 12:13 AM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> 
> On 2020-05-20 20:05, Drew Nilium wrote:
>> On 5/19/2020 9:58 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
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>>> Patrick's grandfather was a Toledo Torpedo before him; he passed on
>>>  the oral history as it exists. Toledo Torpedoes go back at least
>>> two millennia. Patrick's grandfather told of a Roman hero called
>>> "Toledus Torpedus".
>  >
>> I love the trope of saying "No, this straightforward and kinda goofy 
>> English-language name *actually* has a deep and ancient meaning" - but I don't 
>> think Toledo was around two millennia ago, and I know torpedoes weren't!
> 
> How true.  Toledo, torpedoes, and the Toledo Torpedo might have all been named 
> after other things...  Part 2 will give a clue into that.

GASP. :D

Drew "the plot thicks!!" Nilium