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Thank you so much for answering my question, hearing you ponder over my name at the beginning truly was elating, you’re giving me the strength to pursue this vast unknown through this answer and your book! One day I hope to be able to stumble onto a stage you grace with your presence, that’s an active goal now. Looks like Austin will be the move in the next couple years!

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Jun 23, 2022·edited Jun 23, 2022

Poux is the french plural of "flea". Obviously masculine substantively as most blood suckers.

It's used in a lot of expressions. A "pure-laine" ( québécois nationalistic "joual" ( from "cheval" ) expression for a bald person is "flea skaterink" - patinoire a poux.

But, the frequency of the "x" in north american population - from Louisiana to Québec is mostly attributed to the lack of writing skills of early immigrants. Some of the processing was done by them telling their name ( transcribed by the whim and nationality of the what was then the equivalent of an immigration officer. The X was their signature.

Marcel Proust would became Morsel Proulx . Or Prue if the gentleman at processing was anglo saxophone. (sic)

So it may be some extension of a name like Pou

See the late Georgia based writer Genevieve Long Pou.

In France Pou-Pou ( read Poo-Poo) was a cyclist name. Famous. Very . Raymond Poulidor. He famously stayed with just one team all his life. Mercier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercier_(cycling_team)

All the poo is french caca... One of my life motto's.

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Jun 23, 2022·edited Jun 23, 2022

"... and that's just the tip of the iceberg! The rest are your experiences ..." I loved that line from The Hero with Sam Elliott.

Funny enough, I never saw Parks and Recreations, nor do I watch or read Fox news as recommended in All that it matters. I don't even consume the ( intoxicatingly good as far as I understand) inebriating Lagavulin. Maybe because I like to step on the grass! I don't have or had cable. Beside the electrical ones in my humble apartment.

But I can thoroughly enjoy a book or listen to the Wolf's Anger Management advice. Get's me Calm.

So your shine can hit the fan in multiple modalities.

Ass always, yours truly odd french provincial fan,

O from Montréal

Québec

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So nice to hear your words of encouragement. The best place to start is where you are and see what grows.

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This may be too steamy for me...

I better get a fan and some pearls to clutch before I start.

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