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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Re: noun for socially destructive person #76297 07/19/02 09:15 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ V Vernon Compton enthusiast Vernon Compton enthusiast V Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ In reply to: not sure but i think it was in the long dark teatime of the souls I have it on good authority that it comes from "So long, and thanks for all the fish" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: noun for socially destructive person #76298 07/19/02 01:39 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Try The Joys of Yiddish by the other Rosten. There's a definition in there. tsuris maybe? My copy is packed away somewhere (I hope that I didn't lend it to an uncircumcised Philistine who committed the unpardonable sin of not returning a lent-out book.) Or is tsuris the type of trouble? Gosh, getting old has its downside. But beats the hell out of the alternative. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Tsuris #76299 07/19/02 03:43 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC is a Yiddish word for trouble or woe. So a person who inflicts same might be a tsurist? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Tsuris #76300 07/19/02 03:47 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky So a person who inflicts same might be a tsurist? Only if they're not in their home town! Welcome to you, yomintz (I also thought the first letter was v.) Hope somebody comes up with the right term--this is an interesting concept. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter close but no cigar #76301 07/21/02 01:42 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada How 'bout Frankenstein? WO'N, close but no cigar. Found this in my dic. of class. all. etc: ...The monster, who in the course of time has usurped the name of his creator, initially yearns for human sympathy. Rejected, he turns on his maker and, destroying everyone he loves, hounds him to his death. Symbolically, the creation that turns on its creator. still searching through dictionary, hoping for help....think we are looking for something like "a Cassandra" or similar (but NOT Cassandra - poor lass, she had rather different troubles) Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter into "L" now! #76302 07/21/02 01:56 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada I wonder if "Lancelot" is close? Although he generally represents the very model of knightly chivalry, his adulterous love for Guinevere tarnishes his image somewhat. It contributed to the failure of his quest for the Holy Grail, the collapse of the fellowship of the Round Table, and the death of Arthur. Mmm. Not quite right. I'll keep looking.... Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter not quite right either #76303 07/21/02 02:07 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada feels a little closer, this, but still not quite right: Parsifal....a "pure fool," some guileless and innocent knight.... Ever onward.... Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Hm. #76304 07/21/02 02:12 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Pickwick. ...Mr Pickwick was in the habit of using highly insulting language in a completely unmeaning and harmless way - hence the phrase "in a Pickwickian sense" is descriptive of word usage that departs from the sense commonly understood. Dammit, that's not it either. All these seem to contain elements of what we're after, but none of them is quite right. Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Hm, part II #76305 07/21/02 02:18 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. ...Not really important enough to be evil but too foolish to be good... Maybe if we combined all these names...! Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter failure #76306 07/21/02 02:30 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Well I bin all thru that damn Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, and Literary Allusions, with no success. The above entries are the best I can offer. This is bluddy frustrating! it's on the tip of my brain but I just can't get it.... Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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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