Homage.
Historically and during the feudal period, homage referred to a public avowal of allegiance by a vassal to his lord or an act done or thing to show the relationship between lord and vassal.
These days homage is used to refer to respect, honour, tribute, allegiance, things of the sort.
Folks are always questioning Homage and how and why I chose that name. Well, I could go into great details about my search for the perfect name. Heneq. Heqet. Copper. At one point I was determined to call it Foggybottom. Yep! Foggybottom. How about this? Foggybottom Cafe. Foggybottom Burgers. I ran the name by a couple of friends and I leave it up to you to imagine their comments. So okay. Then I got stuck on Chittybang. Chittybang Cafe. Chittybang burgers. I thought of a thousand things that would make that work. T-shirts that said Banging! Pretty waitresses with pony tails and t-shirts that said chittychitty bang bang! Okay....So you know what happened to those ideas....
So my designer, great artist, paint on canvas and illustrated above, was busy painting one night when I stumbled in to check on his progress. He had painted 'Black Magic' where we now have the infamous 'Homage' and I told him ahhh, not to my liking.
Came back the next day and instead of Black Magic, he had painted the word Homage. Long story shortened, my parents and family came over to see our work in progress and someone thought I had decided upon Homage. Well, the rest is history. That night, my Dad's birthday, November 27, 2007, I decided upon Homage.
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