From the "Dictionary For Today"...

Bigamist (n): (i) an incorrigible optimist; (ii) a masochist.

Sinister leanings

Ciotóg, it turns out, is the Gaelic for "left handed"... the original or underlying meaning being "the strange one". I, for one, would not argue with that.

I admit to a certain fascination with my vague Irish ancestries. Apparently if you go back a few generations you will find a link to the O'Bleege family, one of whom suffered an appalling agricultural accident with a baling machine. "Nobless" O'Bleege, he was known as, after that.