It's an extrapolation from the noun 'shrink', for a psychologist or psychiatrist. I'm not sure where THAT comes from, but you have access to the OED, you could look it up! And tell me the etymology and the earliest references and things!
I would have thought the verb would have come before the noun. Oh, I didn't think of the OED! Hmm. *looks it up* It seems to be connected to headhunters, the ones who make shrunken heads. Huh. No wonder it kinda bothers me. XP
Seems like the exact origins are lost to the mists of time, but this guy presents the idea that it came into popular use in Hollywood, and might relate to shrinking the inflated egos of movies stars - which is kinda cool - or that both headhunters and psychs mess with your head in mysterious ways (we really don't though), and there's a bit of a link between head-shrinking tribal rituals and being asked about your mother and your childhood (which we don't do so much now).
Oh, and it entered the venacular through being used in Rebel Without A Cause! That is cool. Rebel came out in 55, and the only earlier source the OED has is from 1950 (1950 Time 27 Nov. 19 Anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.) I love the
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Fairchild doesn't know how to use his microphone (if he bothers with one) and Hindson is in all the musical newspapers because he's actually fantastic dontyaknow and may therefore be a little snobby. Plus he's 33/4 now so he's old (or just a really awful time signature). Also, it'll be Fairchild's fault that things are unorganised - Matthew is flexible within reason, but Charles is just spacey sometimes.
PS Take the image files into paint or photoshop or something and invert the colour scheme. Makes black backgrounds white. Win.
I'd already managed something with the slides, but still I don't get why he'd do it in the first place; it's a lot of effort to fix them and not everyone would even know how. It's not just me, right? It really does make no sense? Hindson's adorable sometimes, but, yeah. But stiff. And he covered the score music side of things, and did it in very fancy music terms, which is less acsesible to me, and probably adds to the impression of a bit of hoity toityness, but he's quite nice face-to-face.
Chas is a great lecturer, and has worn a mic everytime, but he doesn't seem to get that you need to speak loud enough for your voice to actually reach it for it to do any good. How has no one ever told him, I wonder?
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Seems like the exact origins are lost to the mists of time, but this guy presents the idea that it came into popular use in Hollywood, and might relate to shrinking the inflated egos of movies stars - which is kinda cool - or that both headhunters and psychs mess with your head in mysterious ways (we really don't though), and there's a bit of a link between head-shrinking tribal rituals and being asked about your mother and your childhood (which we don't do so much now).
Oh, and it entered the venacular through being used in Rebel Without A Cause! That is cool. Rebel came out in 55, and the only earlier source the OED has is from 1950 (1950 Time 27 Nov. 19 Anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.) I love the ( ... )
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PS Take the image files into paint or photoshop or something and invert the colour scheme. Makes black backgrounds white. Win.
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Chas is a great lecturer, and has worn a mic everytime, but he doesn't seem to get that you need to speak loud enough for your voice to actually reach it for it to do any good. How has no one ever told him, I wonder?
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