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I know I am only new here, but one what, AnnaStrophic?
Goodness, the antecedent wasn't very clear, was it, Mister Ghouls. My bad. An arrogant bastard. [notwink]
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[Edit: quoted words (colored) added, to clarify per Helen's note below.]
ASp: there's always one in every crowd.
MisterGhouls: one what, AnnaStrophic?
ASp: Goodness, the antecedent wasn't very clear ... An arrogant bastard. [notwink]
and who would that be, anna? [notwink]
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Hey kieva, you better watch out.. this sounds almost like a FART
How do you know who cut the cheese? Easy, its alwasy the guy who loudly asks "Who cut the cheese?"!
So when you post and who would that be, anna? [notwink] it sure sounds like a FART to me!
Besides who the hell gave you permission usurp the arrogant bastard position here-- why can't it be me?
No more mister nice guy, i want to be an arrogant bastard in the croud every once in a while!
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Helen, I edited my post, to clarify by quoting the prior posts to which I was responding. The [notwink] appears in the predecessor's post.
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Just to use my coinage, is this a collection of fetorts?
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So it wasn't you that cut the cheese? you're sure about that?
aren't arrogant bastards supposed to give you grief? not believe your protestations of in no scents?) i have a new rephewtation to uphold! maybe i'll go and get a whip. Crack! that's what you get for farting around here!
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and who would that be, anna?
Surely it could only be about the Humorless Git that started the whole shennanigans?
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This reminds me of a bit of wordplay, sure to delight the inner child in each of us:
Read each line in succession, quickly...
OOF
ARTED
ICE
MELTED
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Humorless Git
That sounds possible, but it could refer by extension to any such humorless git or self-obsessed moron without the sense to realise how stupid he makes himself appear by drawing attention to himself in such a sadly unfavorable light.
Is there a word for this rhetorical sort of meaning, where the meaning is understood to extend to a person (or persons) unnamed?
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ICE
MELTED
Remind me never to drink cocktails in your bar!
As for the question about rhetoric, you ask in the right place Ego - there are several folks here who really love this stuff, and are sure to find the correct term. It's a great question - so you mean we could be *apparently talking about Person A while everyone is supposed to know we are *actually talking about Person K ~ and laughing their asses off at the irony that the subject can't protest without admitting he's a deranged nutter for imagining such behaviour? wow - yes, there must be a term - are our search squad or our rhetoricians online?
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