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Subject:
today's wwftd is... jackpudding
Date:
Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:26:21 -0500 (CDT)
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wwftd master <mikef3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To:
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the worthless word for the day is: jackpudding
a clown; a buffoon; a merry-andrew
"Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the drearest
interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding."
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, "The History of England"
1. What are the "drearest interests" (unless it simply a typo)
2 If Booth is an MP, how would the interests of his constituents be intrusted to anyone else?
3. "Jackpudding" is very likely a synonym for "wanker" ("pudding" at one time meant "sausage")
-tsuwm http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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A) DREAR: Dreary, having nothing likely to provide cheer, comfort, or interest : (From Merriam-Webster On Line)
2) It would be nice were they intrusted to someone other than a drunken jackpudding.
Þ) Or maybe not.
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>3. "Jackpudding" is very likely a synonym for "wanker"
...and the *first sense of wanker (at one source at least) is simply "a jerk"
1) "drearest interests" = dull, or perhaps common
2) Booth was a Lord (as in House of) and was complaining about the Commoner MP
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With a little more context, the sentence reads:
Jeffreys conducted himself, as was his wont, insolently and
unjustly. He had indeed an old grudge to stimulate his zeal. He
had been Chief Justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth,
represented that county in Parliament. Booth had bitterly
complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his
constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.41 The
revengeful judge was now not ashamed to resort to artifices which
even in an advocate would have been culpable.
While Mr. Booth, who later became Lord Delamare, was a member of the Houses of Commons he complained about Judge Jeffrys having been appointed Chief Justice of Cheshire, which was presumably Booth's constituency.
For a fuller text see: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/2hoej10.txt
By the way, how do you link to a url which is not an http one?
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, how do you link to a url which is not an http one?
It is still a url, so just use the url tags, if that is what you meant. You should be able to click on it as usual and the browser will follow the link.
Rod
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just use the url tagsAin' that easy, rod. The markup processor looks at your url, sees they ain' no http:// in it so it adds it. You get http://ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/2hoej10.txtWhich sends you off somewhere next door to Erewhon.
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Dear Bingley: I just did Edit,copy, Edit paste and it worked fine. Thanks for having gone to so much trouble. Bill
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just use the url tags for ftp urlsOk I see the problem. I haven't seen that in other sites and didn't try it here. It is a bug in the markup processor as far as I am concerned, which should just turn the url bracketed tags into an a href tag. Until they fix it or someone comes up with a clever workround, you can either leave it untagged, in which case the reader has to copy'n'past th elink in, or put tag it anyway, and leave the reader to remove the extraneous http:// from the front of the bad link. Putting the links in with and without the <A> tags doesn't work either. Rod
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Is "intrust" rather than "entrust" archaic or is it simply a typo?
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Dear plutarch: the word you questioned was spelled as Macaulay wrote it.
I went back and read the text until I found it. I saw a number of words
the spelling of which has changed.This part of his History of England
was completed in 1848.
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