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riehwvfbk
1y ago
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The "alarm clock" surname is pretty cool though if you know this factoid: the word for waking up in Slavic languages is the same as the Sanskrit root "budh", which also means "to wake". So Buddha is "the one who has awakened".
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keiferski
1y ago
That is super cool. Thanks for the factoid!
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