The sinister, the righteous, the fey

The opposite of fucking seldom: 1,000 MHz.

(The above is a good example of the sort of thing whose derivation will be utterly mysterious to me after some relatively short period has passed.)

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[ben wolfson]

Sure enough.

I recall that rara avis, Avis and Hertz, and "sinister" meaning "left" all figure into the mix, but what's omitted from that, or how things got into the precise shape they did, though I do remember that they got into that precise shape not at all accidentally.