|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Gambrinous: being full of beer.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
wwh, gambrinous was one of the words we had on that drinking thread a while back. tsuwm may have included it in his useless words, but I'm fairly sure it's one of Mrs. Byrne's--almost positive it is.
I loved that drinking thread, especially learning about heeltap, the liquor that's left in the bottom of the glass. Many a child has slipped in to get a quick taste of heeltap, I would bet, in drinking homes. I am NOT advocating drinking, by the way, and most especially NOT the drinking of children. It's just a subject that's fun to read about from time to time...
...as in your gambrinous reminder.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
the drinking of children
Eewww! Just the idea of liquefying them turns my delicate little stomach.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear WW: lt was late and I was too tired to check. So whack my knuckles with your ruler. Which reminds me of a real beaut of a teacher I had in fourth grade. She had an eighteen inch birch ruler that she used only to hit kids' hands. She tried it on me, and at the last instant I snatched my hand away, and she hit her own hand very hard. I got taken out of school, and my mother taught me at home for a year and a half. I was very sorry when I had to go back to school.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
So, I write about drinking children and eating--what was it--my friend shrimp tails? I'm gonna have the reputation of being a carnivore Edit: I meant cannibal here instead of carnivore. Good grief. fersure if I don't start editing what I write before I post it.
Should I have written that "I don't advocate children's drinking" for clarity?
PS: Bill, I didn't point up the gambrinous covered in an earlier thread to whack your knuckles at all! I just brought it up because some people who are new here could search it out to find that drinking term thread that was so much fun. I'm the one who's too lazy to look it up!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear WW: you do make it fun to tease you.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 387
enthusiast
|
|
enthusiast
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 387 |
So, WW, tell me about your childhood.
an hour later.
You have the Diomedes Complex. Take this medicine, and never go near horses.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
There is (or used to be, I haven't checked recently) a German pub in Bandung called Gambrinus.
Bingley
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear WW: since Bingley reopened the thread, I went back and checked. You failed to note
that I posted about "gambinous. so naturally all those posts about Gambinus
were not reported. That o made a whole lot of difference. Sob, sob.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
the "r" makes some difference too..
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear tsuwm. I am having even more trouble with my vision. And my recent memory is not
what it ;used to be, to retain spellings from one window to another. I regret that my
shortcomings detract from the enjoyment of the board.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
I regret that my shortcomings detract from the enjoyment of the board.
Don't worry Dr. Bill. I googled "gambinus" and got a site with a link to the Gambinus Company, a beer distributor in San Antonio, TX. Clicking on the link led me to the website for the Gambrinus Company. So I guess the r doesn't make that much difference after all. tsuwm is just bucking for head nit-picker over Juan.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
But neither tsuwm nor WO'N have my capacity to quibble.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
In reply to:
tsuwm is just bucking for head nit-picker over Juan
I have just been reading C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, which was first published in 1945. Bucking is there used to represent a very similar word that could not be printed at that time. For example:
"I couldn't tell that the bucking car was going to break down, could I?"
Who, I wonder is bucking for non-head nit picker?
Bingley
Bingley
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Who, I wonder is bucking for non-head nit picker?
When *I bowdlerize that word *I say flicking.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 |
In West Side Story, it was "...Gee, Officer Krupke, Krup you!"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Gee, Officer Krupke, Krup you!
Well, yeah, in the *movie.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 |
Well, on the record, anyway. (Remember LPs?)
Come to think of it, the vinyl disc [not to mention the shellac one]
has no more right to the term "record" than the present CD does. They are all
equally "recordings".
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,318
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
763
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
