Just a thought: would it be a good idea if our good colleagues whiteoctave and cweb255 (bless 'em!) had a special board for their combats: a sort of gladiatorial arena exclusively for them? Then we would know where to find them, circling around each other, crouched and wary - retiarius and secutor, net and trident - and be not quite so astonished to find them at it yet again in someone else's innocent and placid thread?
On the other hand, it *is* rather good fun to find their cuts and thrusts enlivening otherwise quiet little threads ... so I don't know...
But! How about a Komedia board for our friend Episcopus! Equipped specially for him with the cyber equivalents of cap and bells, pig's bladder on a stick, juggling balls, exploding jaffa cakes, perhaps even an enormous phallus!
I offer up these suggestions in good fellowship,
Phylax
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Um. What in the world is this for? Is Morris dancing involved?Phylax wrote:pig's bladder on a stick
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Pig's bladder: very important accoutrement in the efficient and effective mediaeval jester's tool-kit. Use? To bounce on people's bonces. The stick increases the bladder's moment, and amplifies its impact.annis wrote:Um. What in the world is this for? Is Morris dancing involved?Phylax wrote:pig's bladder on a stick
And alas yes, I am afraid to say, William, it does involve nowadays Morris dancing: a Morris 'side' often has a crazy anarchic member attached to it, a joker or jester or knave, not infrequently dressed in travesty, all too often making dangerous play with a pig's bladder. The world is such an unsafe place.
Would you like me also to expand on "phallus"? [How I immediately very much regret having used the word 'expand' in this context! ]
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Interesting post Phylax!
I feel it my duty to remark the inverse properties of these games. That's to say, whiteoctave should be fighting nor cweb nor any one of other for he is a comedian in his own right. Also he does not tend to fight, nay rather just call cweb a twat! Not that I as a neutral sempercoherent moderatoris similis persona agree.
I feel it my duty to remark the inverse properties of these games. That's to say, whiteoctave should be fighting nor cweb nor any one of other for he is a comedian in his own right. Also he does not tend to fight, nay rather just call cweb a twat! Not that I as a neutral sempercoherent moderatoris similis persona agree.
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"Dangerous PLay with a Pig's BLadder" - this is a lovely phrase, with satisfying phonetics. I'll see if I can use it in a meeting soon.Phylax wrote: all too often making dangerous play with a pig's bladder.
I'm of an age where I can still handle that on my own, but thanks for asking.Would you like me also to expand on "phallus"?
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Glad to see that I wasn't the only one following their discussions with great interest.Phylax wrote:Just a thought: would it be a good idea if our good colleagues whiteoctave and cweb255 (bless 'em!) had a special board for their combats: a sort of gladiatorial arena exclusively for them? Then we would know where to find them, circling around each other, crouched and wary - retiarius and secutor, net and trident - and be not quite so astonished to find them at it yet again in someone else's innocent and placid thread?
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