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."

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 ...

you see the posers around Leicester Square - well, the whole of the West End and Soho really - of a Thursday night, too

I'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

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!

I try a one-worder and whadda I get?

And try to blame it on *me! Faldagious, indeed! Harrumph®!

I remember an ancient injunction:"Hit him again, he's Irish."

>I try a one-worder and whadda I get? I mean, I ask you!


Yet another disgruntlee to join my exclusive club.

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

Yet another disgruntlee to join my exclusive club

Oh, just bloody marry him and have done with it!

Faldagious, indeed! Harrumph®!


Heh heh heh

[rubbing hands -e]

"Disgruntle" always made me think it was caused by severe constipation.

>Oh, just bloody marry him and have done with it!


May you get a flattie in the middle of an anglers' convention.

May you get a flattie in the middle of an anglers' convention.

May all your sheep turn carnivorous.

Sorry, not into bigmany.

... is the girl I love! [clap clap clap clap]"

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.

I'm not quite sure what CK meant by "bigmany" - perhaps the bravery of Sheiks of Araby?

It seems sexist - why can't we have "bigpersony". Or big, per Sony.

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.

'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!