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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:19 pm 
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garyfritz wrote:
You mean Qaboos al-Fin? I'm missing the connection.

Caboose. The last car of the train.

Fin. "End" in several Latin-based languages.

al-Fin could be merely an arab-ization of it, or it could me "to the end" or "of the end".

Not spec; just linguistic analysis.

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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:41 pm 
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Aha. Totally missed that. Thanks CW!

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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:41 pm 
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garyfritz wrote:
You mean Qaboos al-Fin? I'm missing the connection.

Yes, given that linked comic, other innocent blood is possible. We'll find out soon, I'm sure.

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He essentially said he doesn't think he can.

I'm saying he's so far from being able to "make it up" that he has no idea what a bucket of hurt he may open up. I suspect Riff's loyalty to Torg and Zoë may be much stronger than to his own long-missing and apparently demonically-swayed father.



Qaboos is a 'careful planner' or schemer. Al-fin?? Badly translated 'the end'?? Planning for the end!

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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:16 pm 
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Qaboos is a 'careful planner' or schemer.

Dang, where did you find that? I tried Google translate, and even punching in phonetic Arabic characters, all I got was "Qaboos".

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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:51 pm 
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CheeseWhisper wrote:
ramoss wrote:
Qaboos is a 'careful planner' or schemer.
Dang, where did you find that? I tried Google translate, and even punching in phonetic Arabic characters, all I got was "Qaboos".
That won't work. You need to look for the meaning of the name. (Google: "Qaboos meaning")

Historically, the name Qaboos means beautiful face, not "careful planner".

But...the numerology of the name means he is very devoted to ones in need and very honest in a relationships. Also he is one who wants to keep and maintain everything in an organized and smoothly operating fashion. So based on the numerology, he could be considered a careful planner.

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 Post Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:42 am 
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CheeseWhisper wrote:
ramoss wrote:
Qaboos is a 'careful planner' or schemer.

Dang, where did you find that? I tried Google translate, and even punching in phonetic Arabic characters, all I got was "Qaboos".



OH.. I was mistaken.. that was a web site that gave character traits , rather than a translation.. never mind.

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