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The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

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Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:50 Fri 11 Jul 2014
by djewesbury
Why thank you.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 22:13 Fri 11 Jul 2014
by LGTrotter
The significance of this being?

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 22:19 Fri 11 Jul 2014
by jdaw1
LGTrotter wrote:The significance of this being?
First usage on TPF of that word. Gloating would have been met with scorn, but as it was done quietly, I thought that it should have been acknowledged.

There could, perhaps, be a subsidiary competition for those noticers.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 11:29 Sun 13 Jul 2014
by griff
What an enjoyable thread! I love the sight of bomphiologia in the morning (with apologies to John Milius)

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 08:46 Thu 24 Jul 2014
by jdaw1

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 22:39 Fri 19 Sep 2014
by LGTrotter
jdaw1 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:I am pleased to say that I do not have to look up dithyramb to know that it has not been used correctly. I think.
It has been used entirely correctly. An extra point to Julian for your being such a bad sport.
Yes, perhaps I should have checked that no Classical Greek dancers or poetry composed along particular lines had been offered as an intermezzo for slides. I presumed too much.
I agree that the usage went slightly beyond the strict classical meaning. But in the sense of a song to the god of wine, I hoped that it was close enough.
I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 08:50 Sat 20 Sep 2014
by jdaw1
LGTrotter wrote:I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.
Very gracious, thank you.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 09:09 Sat 08 Nov 2014
by jdaw1

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 09:48 Sat 08 Nov 2014
by DRT
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Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 17:45 Sat 08 Nov 2014
by djewesbury
Extra points to DRT.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 23:41 Mon 10 Nov 2014
by DRT
Nice work.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 23:54 Mon 10 Nov 2014
by djewesbury
He definitely gets paradoxical points for that one.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:09 Tue 11 Nov 2014
by LGTrotter
New nomination;
Glenn E. wrote:quasquibicentennial.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:10 Tue 11 Nov 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:New nomination;
Glenn E. wrote:quasquibicentennial.
No no. Too quotidian. A workaday word.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 23:08 Thu 04 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:Please add taradiddle to the appropriate thread.
Taradiddle. Isn't it lovely. I shall be using this word a lot.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 12:24 Wed 10 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
Two new nominations;
jdaw1 wrote: gracile, or fustilugs?

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 15:50 Wed 10 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
Beautiful, if somewhat showily used. More nonchalance please.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 16:45 Wed 10 Dec 2014
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:if somewhat showily used
The partial animadversion is noted.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 17:03 Wed 10 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:if somewhat showily used
The partial animadversion is noted.
Better.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 17:37 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by DRT

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:16 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
I was hoping, but dared not presume...

Unless the Scylla and Charybdis of this thread (yes I do mean you two) have anything to say on the matter.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:18 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by DRT
I was hoping, but no one spotted mine

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:25 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
DRT wrote: maelstrom.
Happy to oblige with a bit of mutual back scratching.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 21:59 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 22:07 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.
Daniel, you're back! Saved from Julian, Barnes that is not ours.

I think you should post this here; http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.p ... t=Concerts which I discovered quite by chance when trying to see if Derek could add 'odious' to his list on this thread. Alas no, three times in total, once by myself and the other was in reference to Mr Paul Gadd. Quite.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 00:53 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
I love the way you're revitalising old threads Owen. I'm very pleased to see that Derek enjoyed The Pogues in 2008. A friend of mine is in this popular beat combo. He wrote the music for Fairytale of New York. Christmas is his 'ker-ching' time of year.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 01:33 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:I love the way you're revitalising old threads Owen.
Oh my. My Paul Gadd past has been outed again :?

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 09:51 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:klatsch
Hurrah! An excellent word. Showing up the more otiose members of :tpf: though.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 14:27 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:I'm very pleased to see that Derek enjoyed The Pogues in 2008. A friend of mine is in this popular beat combo. He wrote the music for Fairytale of New York. Christmas is his 'ker-ching' time of year.
You know the great Jem? Wow, no really, wow. Did I mention how attractive you are looking? The Pogues are one of those bands who I used to go and see plenty in my youth, terrific nights out, but those were the days when I thought there was something cool about being a drunk. It feels very uncomfortable seeing Shane on telly these days, remembering cheering and singing while he delivered a set lying down sucking at a bottle. Was it mainly stage fright? I had a feeling it might be.
djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:klatsch
Hurrah! An excellent word. Showing up the more otiose members of :tpf: though.
Klatsch is from another language and the use of otiose in this context is deliberately provocative.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 14:37 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
Yes, once again I agree with all you say, Owen. I once commissioned Jem to build a radio telescope in Lough Neagh and an upside-down shed at the loughshore. The telescope received radio waves from magnetic storms on Jupiter. The shed was meant to look like it had been inverted in a hurricane. The night we erected it we had force 12 winds (hurricane) and had to stand behind it, all pushing, to keep it upright. I like to think we precipitated the hurricane.

Yes, I share similar stories regarding the great Shane. In the late 1980s I marvelled at him. I met him once years later and he was, predictably enough, reasonably tedious.

I thought a klatsch had to involve coffee. I exclude you from the general otiosity hereabouts, of course, old chap.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 15:14 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
I have no objection to being labelled as otiose, it was more that prior to your use of it there was only one other, which was by, ahem, one LGTrotter of this parish. My light is well hidden by bushels betimes...

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 15:39 Mon 15 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:I have no objection to being labelled as otiose, it was more that prior to your use of it there was only one other, which was by, ahem, one LGTrotter of this parish. My light is well hidden by bushels betimes...
Cripes! Rumbled!

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 10:44 Wed 11 Mar 2015
by jdaw1

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 11:47 Wed 11 Mar 2015
by LGTrotter
jdaw1 wrote:
I must own up to using it before, only last time I hyphenated it.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 19:51 Wed 11 Mar 2015
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
I must own up to using it before, only last time I hyphenated it.
:GoldStar:

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 09:22 Tue 18 Aug 2015
by jdaw1
I’m not convinced that the usage was accurate — doubtless explanation will follow.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 09:23 Tue 18 Aug 2015
by djewesbury
Well, thank you, but I thought you might have picked up on the correct use of 'enormities' as well.

Heigh-ho.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 15:39 Tue 18 Aug 2015
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:Well, thank you, but I thought you might have picked up on the correct use of 'enormities' as well.
You spliced that in after I had read and quoted.

And your attempt at self-nomination is noted, with due scorn.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 15:42 Tue 18 Aug 2015
by djewesbury
You've made me so proud.

Re: The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel

Posted: 00:51 Mon 25 Jan 2016
by DRT
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