But Mad Robin is a nickname for a Puck-like character, in literature. Also known as Robin
Goodfellow, a player of harmless pranks, random doer of little good deeds, a bit
mischievous and secretive, given to pinching a sleeping queen of a night. I think perhaps
the author of the ECD thought the flirtatious nature of the move was a bit Puckish. So
alternate bird names wouldn't be proper substitutes. I have also hard the move called
a shuttle, which I think diminishes the flirty part too much. Mad Robin works, even if
less descriptive than we might like. Playful Parallels just doesn't quite cut it.
But if we think of Mad Robin as Robin Goodfellow, aka Puck, maybe it sits a little more
easily as a name for that very playful move.
Andrea
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On Jun 1, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Sivier <jsivier(a)illinois.edu> wrote:
On 6/1/2013 12:11 PM, Charles Hannum wrote:
I've been trying to rename it to "Angry
Bird", but I haven't got much
buy-in yet.
How about "Crazy Crow", "Wrought-up Wren", "Disturbed
Duck", "Insane Ibis", "Passionate Pigeon" or others along the
same lines? ;-)
Jonathan
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