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Sauncho Smilax

2018-08-04T19:40:45Z

Chihiro:

'''Sauncho Smilax, Esq'''<br />

[[File:BdTIV.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax in Inherent Vice (2014). Image taken from the [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/mediaviewer/rm3974496000= Inherent Vice IMBD Page] [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE2MjIyMTcwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTIyMjU4MzE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg ]]]

*'''Sauncho:''' variant of Sancho (Latin), meaning Saint, Sanctified, Sincere, Truthful. Also, 'Sancho' is a mexican slang that refers to the person a girl is cheating his boyfriend with. And, of course, who could forget Sancho Panza, Don Quijote's Squire in The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (1605), by Miguel de Cervantes.

*All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word ''Smilax'' derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." ''Smilax'' is very resistant to eradication.

*From Greek mythology the nymph ''Smilax'' was slighted by the boy Krokos and transformed into the vine. Another version states that the gods having pity on the grief-stricken boy Krokos who witnessed the death of his lover, the nymph ''Smilax'', changed him into a flower—the saffron crocus and ''Smilax'' into the bindweed, forever entwining the two.

*Coincidentally, there is a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SMILAX+STREET+LOS+ANGELES&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.23349,56.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077385,-118.286061&spn=0.007962,0.013754&z=16&iwloc=A Smilax Street] in Los Angeles.

*He was played by Benicio Del Toro in the 2014 adaptation of ''Inherent Vice'' by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Sauncho Smilax

2018-08-04T19:40:12Z

Chihiro:

'''Sauncho Smilax, Esq'''<br />

[[File:BdTIV.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax in Inherent Vice (2014). Image taken from the [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/mediaviewer/rm3974496000= Inherent Vice IMBD Page] [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE2MjIyMTcwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTIyMjU4MzE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg ]]]

*'''Sauncho:''' variant of Sancho (Latin), meaning Saint, Sanctified, Sincere, Truthful. Also, 'Sancho' is a mexican slang that refers to the person a girl is cheating his boyfriend with. And, of course, who could forget Sancho Panza, Don Quijote's Squire in The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (1605), by Miguel de Cervantes.

*All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word ''Smilax'' derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." ''Smilax'' is very resistant to eradication.

*From Greek mythology the nymph ''Smilax'' was slighted by the boy Krokos and transformed into the vine. Another version states that the gods having pity on the grief-stricken boy Krokos who witnessed the death of his lover, the nymph ''Smilax'', changed him into a flower—the saffron crocus and ''Smilax'' into the bindweed, forever entwining the two.

*Coincidentally, there is a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SMILAX+STREET+LOS+ANGELES&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.23349,56.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077385,-118.286061&spn=0.007962,0.013754&z=16&iwloc=A Smilax Street] in Los Angeles.

*He was played by Benicio del Toro in the 2014 adaptation of ''Inherent Vice'' by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Sauncho Smilax

2018-08-04T19:35:58Z

Chihiro:

'''Sauncho Smilax, Esq'''<br />

[[File:BdTIV.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax in Inherent Vice (2014) [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE2MjIyMTcwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTIyMjU4MzE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg ]]]

*'''Sauncho:''' variant of Sancho (Latin), meaning Saint, Sanctified, Sincere, Truthful. Also, 'Sancho' is a mexican slang that refers to the person a girl is cheating his boyfriend with. And, of course, who could forget Sancho Panza, Don Quijote's Squire in The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (1605), by Miguel de Cervantes.

*All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word ''Smilax'' derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." ''Smilax'' is very resistant to eradication.

*From Greek mythology the nymph ''Smilax'' was slighted by the boy Krokos and transformed into the vine. Another version states that the gods having pity on the grief-stricken boy Krokos who witnessed the death of his lover, the nymph ''Smilax'', changed him into a flower—the saffron crocus and ''Smilax'' into the bindweed, forever entwining the two.

*Coincidentally, there is a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SMILAX+STREET+LOS+ANGELES&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.23349,56.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077385,-118.286061&spn=0.007962,0.013754&z=16&iwloc=A Smilax Street] in Los Angeles.

*He was played by Benicio del Toro in the 2014 adaptation of ''Inherent Vice'' by Paul Thomas Anderson.

File:BdTIV.jpg

2018-08-04T19:34:25Z

Chihiro: Benicio Del Toro in Inherent Vice (2014).

Benicio Del Toro in Inherent Vice (2014).

Sauncho Smilax

2018-08-04T18:44:04Z

Chihiro:

'''Sauncho Smilax'''<br />

*'''Sauncho:''' variant of Sancho (Latin), meaning Saint, Sanctified, Sincere, Truthful. Also, 'Sancho' is a mexican slang that refers to the person a girl is cheating his boyfriend with. And, of course, who could forget Sancho Panza, Don Quijote's Squire in The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (1605), by Miguel de Cervantes.

*All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word ''Smilax'' derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." ''Smilax'' is very resistant to eradication.

*From Greek mythology the nymph ''Smilax'' was slighted by the boy Krokos and transformed into the vine. Another version states that the gods having pity on the grief-stricken boy Krokos who witnessed the death of his lover, the nymph ''Smilax'', changed him into a flower—the saffron crocus and ''Smilax'' into the bindweed, forever entwining the two.

*Coincidentally, there is a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SMILAX+STREET+LOS+ANGELES&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.23349,56.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077385,-118.286061&spn=0.007962,0.013754&z=16&iwloc=A Smilax Street] in Los Angeles.