hjjr

Go to it, Mugdotters, with your 'origins' originals, starting April 1 and running for seven days.

clorophilla

really love the word "Mugdotters"! (It toke a while but finally I catched it!)

just one week? hope to find the time!

Login

My mum said I was found under a gooseberry bush ...

Login

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=201878

Login

Mugdot rules: I can't receive the baton straight after passing it on, so here's another attempt to get things going.
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=201910

hjjr

Login, thanks for your great pics-- right on theme. Hopefully more Mugdotters will answer the "Origins" challenge. Say to yourselves: 'this is the origins of life, thought, love, peace... origins of the story, the myth, the lie... the planet, the origins of these people, or those animals, or that word, or this plot, thought, message. It is said that the world was created in seven days...

puzzler

I don't remember having a go at a Mugdots challenge before, so here goes...
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=201959

clorophilla

Our origins...
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=201960

five

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=201991

Login

Just came across this 'origin' of a word we all know:

"The origin of penguin is still debated. The name originally applied to the great auk (now extinct) of the seas around Newfoundland in Canada, and may have come from the Welsh pen gwyn, meaning 'white head' (or a similar phrase in the Breton or Cornish languages). In the logbook of the Golden Hind, which sailed around the world in 1577–80, there is a reference to a 'foule, which the Welsh men name Pengwin' that was seen in the Magellan Straight at the tip of South America. The sailors on the expedition may have mistaken penguins for great auks, or simply applied a term they knew to an unfamiliar bird: the great auk resembled a penguin in that it was a large flightless bird with black and white plumage that was adapted to life in freezing waters."

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Fascinating info, Login! Love the Welsh origin. Are you familiar with "A WORD A DAY?" One brave soul has been giving us a word with its origins every weekday for 15 (?) years. Great fun & free. He always gives a couple of published examples and ends with an (unrelated) pithy quote. (Please excuse the interruption in hjjr's Challenge!)

puzzler

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=202017

hjjr

On 6 Feb 09, MugDots2 sent out a challenge http://www.thinkdraw.com/forumPosts.php?topicId=62.
Like puzzler, I was not involved in the Mugdots Challenge until the baton was passed to me. [love the moniker 'Mugdots'] Had I researched the origins of the challenge before I posted, I would have focused on a single item rather than such a broad concept. Nevertheless, a week has gone and it is time to pass the baton to one of the fine artists who answered.
Thanks, Login, for your pithy pics and for broadening our knowledge of penguins.
five gave us a charming depiction of an ancient ancestor.
clorophilla put us ALL in the picture of early human life.
Yet, puzzler took it to the very crux and core of the matter. Therefore, I pass the baton to you, puzzler.

Lizzi

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=202045
Good Job, Mom!

puzzler

Oh hjjr! What did you go and choose me for?? Now I have to be all responsible and think about a sensible topic for everyone. I am of course deeply honoured and will do my best to run with the baton.