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Who’s idiosyncratic vocabulary? Plenty of clues.   

• Children were referred to as epsilons (because in mathematics, particularly calculus, an arbitrarily small positive quantity is commonly denoted by the Greek letter (ε))
• Women were “bosses”
• Men were “slaves”
• People who stopped doing mathematics had “died”
• People who physically died had “left”
• Alcoholic drinks were “poison”
• Music was “noise”
• People who had married were “captured”
• People who had divorced were “liberated”
• To give a mathematical lecture was “to preach”
• To give an oral exam to a student was “to torture” him/her.
• This person also gave names to countries – USA was samland, Israel was isreal, Soviet Union was joedem – named after Stalin.

There are so many!

X is a public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia to promote rail safety. The campaign went viral through sharing and social media starting in November 2012, getting almost 20 million views around the world in the first week.

It’s being hailed as one of the most innovative and effective safety awareness campaigns – very effective on kids especially – and it’s been winning some big awards at the Webbys and the Cannes Lions.

It is now in the form of numerous apps, a Tumblr, and a karaoke video.

Name X.

She Sells Sea Shells

Connect – Bob Barker, Steve Irwin, Sam Simon, and Brigette Bardot.
Very specific.
Hint – A TV show in 2008 called Whale Wars bought the connect answer much publicity.

For The Vin

X (1638–1715) was a monk and cellar master at the Benedictine abbey in Hautvillers. He pioneered a number of winemaking techniques: being the first to blend grapes in such a way as to improve the quality of wines, balance one element with another in order to make a better whole, and deal with a number of their imperfections, in 1670; perfecting the art of producing clear white wines from black grapes by clever manipulation of the presses; enhancing the tendency of Champagne wines to retain their natural sugar in order to naturally induce secondary fermentation in the Spring; being a master at deciding when to bottle these wines in order to capture the bubble. He also introduced corks (instead of wood), which were fastened to bottles with hemp string soaked in oil in order to keep the wines fresh and sparkling, and used thicker glass in order to strengthen the bottles (which were prone to explode at that time). The development of sparkling wines as the main style of production in Champagne occurred progressively in the 19th century, over one century after X’s death.

In recognition of X, a brand of the same name which produces vintage champagne exists, which is currently owned by LVMH.

X please?

Two Thumbs Up

This eminent personality in the world of journalism, entered almost a 100 editions of the New Yorker Caption Contest, and finally won – much to the delight of his admirers. Which great man?
HUGE title hint.

Something’s Fishy

Id the graphic designer who’s signature is very punny indeed. 😀 He was recently honoured with a Google doodle. 🙂

Chemical X

XY got the nickname “X” (real name: Eric) when his high school soccer teammates suggested his spiky haircut looked like AstroTurf. Now 42, he has a shoulder-length ponytail, a salt-and-pepper goatee, and a remarkable, intellectual pedigree. Both of his grandfathers won Nobel prizes. His maternal grandfather, Gerard Debreu, was an economist; his paternal grandfather, the famed and controversial physicist Edward Y, worked on the Manhattan Project and is considered the father of the atomic bomb (as well as a model for Dr. Strangelove).

XY was proposing that Z buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite.

Z has also bought out – reCAPTCHA, BumpTop, Zagat, amongs at least 100 more companies.

What is XY the head of at Z?

With this stud-like family, and amazing qualifications of his own – who is XY?