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If your underarms don't stink...

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June 21, 2006, 21:51
<Asa Lovejoy>
If your underarms don't stink...
are you the beloved of god? Deo L. (from Deus, god) dorus Gr. (loved)

Any other faux etymologies that have amused you?
June 22, 2006, 16:20
haberdasher
Yes, but doesn't "Theodore" represent that etymology only not faux at all?
(And "Dorothea/Dorothy" too, for that matter, only backwards...)