You ever watch "3rd Rock from the Sun"? Me neither, but you should look it up and Gordon-Levitt's character name. See if you get anything from it.
I looked it up. Gordon-Levitt's character is called Tommy Solomon. I'm not sure what Bill thinks that name should mean to me, but I googled it and found this:
Tame Horomona Rehe (7 May 1884 – 19 March 1933), also known by the anglicised name Tommy Solomon, is believed by most to have been the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry. Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.
This afternoon, I was browsing /pol/ and there was a thread about that Maori war-dance thing in the New Zealand parliament last year. Or no, looking it up now, it looks like they just did it again last month. More fun than a filibuster, anyway.
I scrolled down a bit and found this comment:
New Zealand already had people here before the Maori. They were called the Moriori people. Maori people came and colonised it and ate the natives. They were also terrible at sailing and couldn't get back home.
I don't think I'd ever heard of the Moriori until today. Taking a page from Bill's playbook, it looks as if it could derive from Elvish roots meaning "dark" and "rise" -- and I'm currently reading a book called Dark Star Rising.
Note added: The name Christchurch (with or without a space) serves to link this post to the previous one, "An intense wish to see Barbados."
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