Archive for December, 2007

Usually a name is more than a name. For example the name of the villainous character, Simon Bar Sinister, in the cartoon series Underdog certainly seems dark enough to be our hero’s nemesis, but there is more to it than that.

First, the origin of the name Simon can be traced to a Hebrew word meaning “listening.” A simple enough hidden meaning.

Second, the Bar Sinister, which has a much more obscure hidden Full Story »