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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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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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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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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!
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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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I remember an ancient injunction:"Hit him again, he's Irish."
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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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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.
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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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Faldagious, indeed! Harrumph®!
Heh heh heh
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