I meant: I love triangles. I went to university long before we all played solitaire on our phones and PCs. I used Chinese Checkers to clear my brain between swotting sessions.
Okay: Start! ————————————————————— In the middle of the game.
Mary had accepted Simon’s proposal but when the big day came she had reservations. She looked less than happy and eyed her soon-to-be husband sideways.
I found out that this watchamacallit is actually a locking device. I wonder if it was named after Sir Joshua Device? On the other hand, it’s a handy gadget so maybe it was invented by Sir Humphrey Gadget? Other contenders could be Pietr Gizmo from Russia, or Ella Reader Widget – an American as was Cyrus T. Doodat. Germans have been known to invent strange little contraptions of which nobody remembers their names and are just called thingies or Dingsbums, so Hans-Joachim Dingsbums might be an option as the originator.