I've been trying out my new macro lens

[Prince]

Holy Moley! Those are the most "macro" shots I have ever seen!!! Excellent work, Adrian.

Now if you just had a Blue dial, everything would be copacetic!!!

[Uncle-AJ]

Originally Posted by Prince

Now if you just had a Blue dial, everything would be copacetic!!!

I had to do a quick goggle to find out what you meant.

'Copacetic', meaning something is in excellent order or satisfactory, is an obscure American expression with many stories about where it comes from.

Certainly is an obscure word a bit like the guy who's using it.

[Prince]

Originally Posted by Uncle-AJ

...Certainly is an obscure word a bit like the guy who's using it.

I resemble that remark!

I'm not really obscure, but I have been known to be opaque and abstruse in my dialogue sometimes. I have a Master's degree in Education, and I enjoy using the tools of that education from time to time.

It’s possible that the word "copacetic" has created more column inches of speculation in the USA than any other apart from OK. It’s rare to the point of invisibility outside North America. People mostly became aware of it in the sixties as a result of the US space program—it’s very much a "Right Stuff" kind of word. But even in the USA, it doesn’t have the circulation it did thirty years ago. Dictionaries are cautious about attributing a source for it. Reasonably so, as there are at least five competing explanations, with no very good evidence for any of them.

One suggestion that’s commonly put forward is that it was originally a word of the African-American community in the USA. The name of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, a famous black tap-dancer, singer and actor of the period round the turn of the twentieth century, is commonly linked to this belief about its origin. Indeed, he claimed to have invented it as a shoeshine boy in Richmond. But other blacks, especially Southerners, said later that they had heard it earlier than Mr. Robinson’s day. But he certainly did a lot to popularize the word.

A more frequent explanation is that it derives from one of two Hebrew expressions, hakol b’seder, “all is in order”, or kol b’tzedek, “all with justice”, which it is suggested were introduced into the USA by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants. Yet other accounts say it derives from a Chinook word copasenee, “everything is satisfactory”, once used on the waterways of Washington State, or from the French coupersetique, from couper, “to strike”, or from the French phrase copain(s) c’est épatant! (“buddy(s), that’s great!”), or, in a hugely strained derivation, from "the cop is on the settee", supposedly a hoodlum term used to describe a policeman who was not actively watching out for crime, and so one who was OK.

In the absence of further evidence, which may now never be forthcoming, none of these suggestions can be definitely disregarded, though most are extremely implausible.

Now, about that dial...

[JJ Irani]

A Master's Degree in what? Tosser Education?

[Prince]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

A Master's Degree in what? Tosser Education?

As a matter of fact, I minored in that. That's why I have risen so quickly to the giddy ranks of the top three - ummm, top FOUR - on the much-esteemed Tosser List.

Now about my recent inappropriate move from third to fourth...

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Prince

Now about my recent inappropriate move from third to fourth...

Just a temporary, minor adjustment....no worries, pal!! You've greased my palms pretty well!!

[Prince]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Just a temporary, minor adjustment....no worries, pal!! You've greased my palms pretty well!!

LOL

EXXXCELLENT!!!

[mailman]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

You've greased my palms pretty well!!

That is something that we as a group need to know nothing about.

[Uncle-AJ]

Originally Posted by Prince

Now, about that dial...

Well the black one is certainly copacetic.

[Prince]

Originally Posted by Uncle-AJ

Well the black one is certainly copacetic.

LOL - good one, Adrian. And I agree!