Dear Tom,
\nI read your article on the chrinitoid in the latest alumni magazine with considerable interest. The chrinitoid has a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n
I thought you might like to know of the genesis of the name. Way back in high school, a friend of mine used the word to refer to unspecified internal organs (e.g., “uhgg, he got me right in the chrinatoids”). When I went to RPI, the first club I joined was the humor magazine, Unicorn<\/em>. I came up with an idea for a fake Reader’s Digest article, of the sort that were running at that time (this was 1972, mind you). I borrowed my friend’s word, drew a small picture and wrote part of an article about it. The first JPG <\/a>file I’ve attached shows you the result. (Note: the afterword was added by someone else!)<\/p>\n For some reason, the Unicorn<\/em> staff took the idea and ran with it, basing practically the whole issue of the magazine on the idea (see second JPG file). Inexplicably, they spelled it wrong — that is, if it is possible to misspell a neologism that has no real meaning.<\/p>\n And, to coin a phrase, the rest is history. The word caught on around campus, and the Rickey sculpture was never called anything else. I suppose “chrinitoid” I’m glad you found the sculpture lurking in Europe. I’ve wondered where it’d got to. Best wishes,<\/p>\n Sandy Stewart, ’76<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So there it is. Makes about as much sense as anything else I have heard.<\/p>\n ~Tom<\/p>\n I have had two recent requests for an etymology for the name “Chrinitoid”. One came from the curator of the art collection that now owns the sculpture, the other from a fan. A couple of years ago, I received an email from a fellow Chrin-lover and apparently, the story goes like this: Dear Tom, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwas easier to say than “Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyratory Up, Variation
\nIII.”<\/p>\n
\nIf you want to use the attached pictures [1]<\/a> [2]<\/a> on your website, feel free.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/chrin\/chrin1.jpg\")
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