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Posted By: tsuwm search of the week: pantagruelist - 02/02/05 11:24 PM
pantagruelist

I don't know the context (if any) that drove the search; but in any case it is used allusively (take note, wwftd master!), pertaining to, characteristic of, or appropriate to, Pantagruel, represented by Rabelais as a coarse and extravagant humorist, dealing satirically with serious subjects.

"Had I mixed more with the world than I have, I should probably have become a Pantagruelist."
- James Russell Lowell (1847)
Posted By: Zed Re: search of the week: pantagruelist - 02/03/05 11:13 PM
coarse and extravagant humorist
??someone who pours porridge down your pants??

Posted By: Faldage Re: search of the week: pantagruelist - 02/03/05 11:45 PM
Next week, the battle that makes Godzilla vs Mothra look like patty-cake. Pantagruel meets Gargantua in the mother of all cage matches. The last one to die is the winner.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: search of the week: pantagruelist - 02/12/05 01:19 AM
Pantagruelist = Swanson's Soups Company

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