#80677
09/13/2002 7:35 PM
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I have often seen "poser" for a tough question. I just found derivation in Brewer:
"Poser The bishop's examining chaplain; the examiner at Eton for the King's College fellowship. (Welsh,
posiaw, to examine; French, poser; Latin, pono.) Hence, a puzzling question."
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#80678
09/14/2002 6:06 PM
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Yeah, you see the posers around Leicester Square - well, the whole of the West End and Soho really - of a Thursday night, too. The problem is that you don't really know what question they're posing, although you do find yourself questioning what they are ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#80679
09/16/2002 9:40 AM
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you see the posers around Leicester Square - well, the whole of the West End and Soho really - of a Thursday night, tooI'll go Faldagious seeing as we're in Q&A.. Wouldn't these be poseurs, Cap? I used to think of this spelling as nothing more than pretentious (or posey even  ), but maybe it does have its uses. Then again, check out the etymology of poseur here: http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/p8etym.htm Edit: I think this makes poseur an autological word - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=27770
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#80680
09/16/2002 6:29 PM
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Gawd, it was a pun! Can't a chap make a pun without some blithering twit pulling a grammatically encyclopaedic hummdinger on him? TEd Remington gets away with the most god-awful puns and everyone applauds and shouts "more, more"! I try a one-worder and whadda I get? I mean, I ask you!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#80681
09/16/2002 6:32 PM
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I try a one-worder and whadda I get?
And try to blame it on *me! Faldagious, indeed! Harrumph®!
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#80682
09/16/2002 6:39 PM
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I remember an ancient injunction:"Hit him again, he's Irish."
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#80683
09/16/2002 7:04 PM
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old hand
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>I try a one-worder and whadda I get? I mean, I ask you! Yet another disgruntlee to join my exclusive club.
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#80684
09/16/2002 9:17 PM
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Gawd, it was a pun!
Ah, humour Cap(tain). Yes, I've heard of that - with and without the "u".
Ha ha ha.
"Humour" wouldn't be an autological word, of course.
Flat fish
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#80685
09/16/2002 9:18 PM
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Yet another disgruntlee to join my exclusive clubOh, just bloody marry him and have done with it! 
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#80686
09/16/2002 9:23 PM
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Faldagious, indeed! Harrumph®!
Heh heh heh
[rubbing hands -e]
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#80687
09/16/2002 9:27 PM
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"Disgruntle" always made me think it was caused by severe constipation.
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#80688
09/16/2002 10:12 PM
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old hand
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>Oh, just bloody marry him and have done with it!
May you get a flattie in the middle of an anglers' convention.
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#80689
09/16/2002 10:30 PM
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May you get a flattie in the middle of an anglers' convention.
May all your sheep turn carnivorous.
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#80690
09/17/2002 9:37 PM
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#80691
09/18/2002 12:01 AM
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... is the girl I love! [clap clap clap clap]"
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#80692
09/18/2002 9:00 AM
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Sorry, not into bigmany...said Cap, modestly. Not even a little bigmany? (reminded of an excellent Dustin Hoffman film) I just learned something! "Bigamy" means two marriages rather than two wives. For some reason I'd thought everything with a "gam(y)-" in ( gamete is another one) related to females, perhaps confusing with "gyn-". D'oh. 
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#80693
09/18/2002 1:23 PM
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I'm not quite sure what CK meant by "bigmany" - perhaps the bravery of Sheiks of Araby?
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#80694
09/18/2002 3:46 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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It seems sexist - why can't we have "bigpersony". Or big, per Sony.
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#80695
09/18/2002 7:26 PM
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addict
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May you get a flattie in the middle of an anglers' convention.
May all your sheep turn carnivorous.
my personal favourite today, 'may your wife have a flat and featureless forehead', deadly klingon insult.
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#80696
09/18/2002 9:07 PM
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'may your wife have a flat and featureless forehead', deadly klingon insult."May Captain Kirk lose all his hair and make an appalling album of spoken songs" Hey, it worked!
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