Toot Toot

LocoPunk closed his first post w/ a boldface Slàn. I felt obligated to get curious.

Wikipedia didn't quite know what I was talking about, but knew of a few articles w/ the word in them: Fear a' bhàta, Manx language, and-- hey, Bingo-- Scottish Gaelic. InstaPunk has proudly trumpeted his Scottish heritage (figures I can't find the posts at the moment) more than once. We have a winner.

Slàn conveniently shows up on the page in a tabled glossary. "Mar sin leat, Slàn leat" roughly means "goodbye" in English, and is rendered in Irish Gaelic as simply "Slán leat". It's surrounded by a bunch of other words, but it seems safe to say Slàn means Goodbye. So Slàn in LocoPunk's post means "Kiss your ass goodbye, sincerely History"? Loosely?

(Slan w/o the stress above the "a", "is the name of a fictional race of superbeings in the 1946 novel of the same name by A.E. van Vogt." I'm sure that's a coincidence. Jommy Cross is a pretty good name for a Punk, though.)