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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: I may be a camera Jackie #174663 03/13/2008 3:54 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Jackie, you know me -- I always like to leave 'em bumfuzzled, or raddled at a minimum. -joe (inpulregafize your spirits) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera tsuwm #174680 03/13/2008 8:25 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania  Originally Posted By: tsuwm the other is responding to a post with a really apt and/or witty reply only to discover that (often whilst you were actually composing) someone else pipped you by posting much the same reply -- yes, pipped at the post; exactly! -joe (I expect by now I may have been pipped on this reply) friday Don't you just hate that! There should be a word for a post that is subsequently made anyway, even after discovering you been 'pipped at the post' in the hope that people might not notice the other one or might think yours is cleverer anyway. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Jackie #174681 03/13/2008 8:28 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania  Originally Posted By: Jackie Olly, and all other newbumfuzzledcomers: mantled comes from the term 'wearing a cloak (or mantle!) of invisibility' (from some work of fiction, no doubt). I don't know why it became mantled instead of cloaked. Pipped was a new one on me. Yes, tsuwm, I know I mantled you, but. It sounds similar to Professor Kingsford's (was that his name?) practice in The Paper Chase of 'shrouding' a first year student by no longer calling on them to answer a question. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Jackie #174695 03/14/2008 12:43 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY twosleepy old hand twosleepy old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY . Last edited by twosleepy; 03/14/2008 1:59 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Jackie #174697 03/14/2008 1:05 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass  Originally Posted By: Jackie I don't know why it became mantled instead of cloaked. maybe it's a matter of volition: mantle - something that covers, envelops, or conceals: the mantle of darkness as, mantling is something that usually* just happens, with no malice aforethought *except when someone is trying to make a point! -joe (going for that nothingest) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera tsuwm #174699 03/14/2008 1:38 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean And this thread is still getting more twistier. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera consuelo #174878 03/20/2008 3:35 AM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Isn't the mantle of invisibility from Princess Bride? At some point we switched from chopped liver to mantled in mid thread but it was some time ago. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Zed #174891 03/20/2008 10:47 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 It may well have been used in Princess Bride but I think it goes back farther than that. We got it from wordorigins and they're real good at this kind of question. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Faldage #174904 03/20/2008 7:04 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY twosleepy old hand twosleepy old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY inconceivable.... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera twosleepy #174907 03/20/2008 11:09 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Inconceivable what? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Faldage #174909 03/20/2008 11:38 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand  Originally Posted By: Faldage Inconceivable what? From useless movie quotes: The Princess Bride Inigo Montoya I admit it, you are better than I am. Westley: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don't know. Westley: And, what is that? Inigo Montoya: I am not left handed. ----- Vizzini: Inconceivable. Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means. A good movie. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera olly #174910 03/21/2008 12:05 AM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &... latishya enthusiast latishya enthusiast Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &...  Originally Posted By: olly [quote=Faldage] A good movie. "As you wish". I'd say "one of the best ever" rather than merely "good". Maybe even " the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera latishya #174915 03/21/2008 12:47 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand  Originally Posted By: latishya the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT". Please excuse my carnivorousness but my sammies are sans L and T Mutton is underated and lets face it, us kiwis know about mutton eh Pook? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera olly #174916 03/21/2008 12:51 AM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &... latishya enthusiast latishya enthusiast Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &...  Originally Posted By: olly  Originally Posted By: latishya the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT". Please excuse my carnivorousness but my sammies are sans L and T My post was a quote from the Miracle Worker in the Princess Bride, for whom a BLT would not have been kosher. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera olly #174925 03/21/2008 2:06 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania  Originally Posted By: olly  Originally Posted By: latishya the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT". Please excuse my carnivorousness but my sammies are sans L and T Mutton is underated and lets face it, us kiwis know about mutton eh Pook? That's right mate, eh? Funny how Canadians, North Queenslanders and New Zealanders add 'eh' to the end of a sentence as an honorary period or question mark, eh? Last edited by The Pook; 03/21/2008 2:30 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera latishya #174926 03/21/2008 2:07 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY twosleepy old hand twosleepy old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY Well, at least some people (with excellent taste...) got the reference! It's one of my favorites, with some of the best movie dialogs ever, especially the poison cup bit, but much better known than another of my very favorites, LadyHawke. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera twosleepy #174928 03/21/2008 3:30 AM Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California Maven member Maven member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California For the record, there's no cloak of invisiblity in The Princess Bride. There is a holocaust cloak. The Princess Bride is a book and film that I can readily quote from memory...Pretty much the whole thing. tempus edax rerum Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Maven #174929 03/21/2008 3:34 AM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &... latishya enthusiast latishya enthusiast Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &...  Originally Posted By: Maven There is a holocaust cloak. Well why didn't you say so? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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