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When i was young at school we called the sun McCormick did anyone else call it that?

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no sorry lol
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um... no....
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yes actually i did

NOT

hahaa 2 points fer me
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ummmmmmm no?
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no not really

lol
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No, but I stupidly starred into the sun for like 10 mins and my eyesight sucks now :(. I lose.
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no.
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no what kind of messed up school did you go to
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Ha Haa Haaaaaa!!! No! 2points!
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My Engineereing Professor called humans after 2011..."CROWS" and I never understood why, till I saw this lecture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQAgzfwu...

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You and your friends, or the teachers? Where did you (or your friends, or the teacher) get it from? Was it in a children's book? Or did you and your friends just name it, as little kids are apt to do?

I've never heard of calling the sun McCormick before, but it sounds like something I would have done as a kid (name inanimate objects.) :-)
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From all the "no"s you're getting, I'm going to suggest it was a localized phenomenon.

I've never heard of it.

If you know people of an earlier generation from your home town, you might ask them if they knew the origins.
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If you are American (US) especially Chicago area, it could be a reference to a family of inventors in the 1800s. They would have been considered "bright".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Hamilton...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_McCor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hall...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_San...

"McCormick was also the grandfather (through Robert Sanderson McCormick) of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, Robert R. McCormick (publisher of the Chicago Tribune) and (through William Grigsby McCormick) of Chauncey McCormick (director of International Harvester) and William McCormick Blair (founder of William Blair and Co., a Chicago-based investment firm)."

"In 2002, Robert and his three sons had a variety of wheat named after them, for "inventing, perfecting, manufacturing, and marketing of the mechanical grain reaper [which] ushered in the era of modern agriculture and wrought one of the greatest advancements in agricultural history."
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