When travelling overseas, I used to be asked the meaning of my name by many people and I would inevitably translate my surname Rajgopaul as Raja for King and Gopala for Cowherd or Cowboy as in the West translating to King of Cowboys. Lord Krishna was the King of Cowherds. Here he is depicted as one along with his friend Balaram, cows and calves.
No, I never wore cowboy boots.
Thanks for the clarification. That explains everything. I kept trying to split it as Rajgo – paul, where paulos means “small” in Greek, and is undoubtedly related to a Sanskrit word.
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Had it not been for that cartoon, you would still be working on the Greek and Latin angles I suppose.
My family name in English had six letters, yet in Irish it covered half the page -Maoldhomhnaigh literally translated Maol means bald and Domhnaigh means Sunday.
The ‘h’s are accents which in my young days were dots on top of the previous letter.
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The dots on top of letters sound like what we use in Indian languages!
One of my favourite songs R – I can’t tell you how much I love it, play it a lot 🙂
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Beale Street Blues has been my favourite for decades. Along with When The Saints Go Marching In, they stand as my inititaion to the genre.
My sister and I were great Roy Rogers fans when we were kids. And a writer/professor friend of mine had a full-size cutout of Roy Rogers in his office. He said he felt secure knowing Roy always had his back.
Yay, Roy Rogers! And his fans. 🙂
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We too grew up with such icons here through comics.
Like Grannymar, I have a long first name, now drastically shortened, which, according to my Dad, means “one who charms all” LOL!
Not so funny is the family name O’dheiderscoeil, now in so many variations in the states, even in the anglicized versions, it needs its own phone book.
As to King of the cowboys: 1. you wear the name well.
2. would love to see a picture of you in a cowboy hat,
3. as I wrote some time ago, my uncle trained both Roy’s horse Trigger, as well as Bullit, his dog. He also owned and trained Lord Nelson, the hairy English sheep dog on the Doris Day version of please don’t eat the daisies. He claimed every Irishman should have a dog named Lord Nelson.
(But, typically, naming is as far as political goes in my family. Dog people are lovers.)
Finally, it’s a tough decision with the pants, but, since I actually wore the hat and boots for work at one time, if you tuck the pants in, you have to shine the boots all the time, if you put them out, you can get caught on the saddle horn or the stirrups and break your neck. My solution was out, and very narrow pants legs.
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Absolutely fascinating history. I am not surprised that you are one who charms and I would give an arm and a leg to see you in narrow jeans, cowboy boots and a ten gallon hat!
No boots …but did you ‘walk the walk and talk the talk’ ? .. Rodeo Ramana Rogers has a certain ring to it. … 🙂
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It does does it not? No, I emulated my namesake in chasing women, though in His case, women chased him!
love all the comments, on aspects of your life style as a cowboy 🙂
So did I! I hope that you enjoy my responses as well.
I was always more of a Hopalong Cassidy fan – but it’s interesting to hear what your name means.
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Hopalong Cassidy too was a hero via comics for us in your boyhood.