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  • pompey
    pompey Posts: 10
    i don't know if they'll accept me -- my name is so bland compared to theirs
    W.A.S.T.E.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Pompey was of the Second Triumvirate, with Mark Anthony and Octavius. He liked his wine, too.

    Pompey's also the nickname of Portsmouth United, and some city that had a bit of a lava incident a little while back.

    You're welcome, Pompey!

    :D
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    AND the site of the most awesome display of limey brits with techno-toys i've ever seen... though they spelled pompey wrong... with two i's and not a Y

    (did i perchance detect a hint of sarcasm??? if not, please... put one in there, where it rightly belongs.... i'm by no means intimate with the finer words in the language such as "phraseology"... i mean, I get it, but... well maybe i'd use it now? i dunno... what rhymes with phraseology? starbucksdazedeology??? coin it baby... :) send it to the mint, it's a keeper)



    how ya doing rarghragh?
  • pompey
    pompey Posts: 10
    Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
    Pompey was of the Second Triumvirate, with Mark Anthony and Octavius. He liked his wine, too.

    Pompey's also the nickname of Portsmouth United, and some city that had a bit of a lava incident a little while back.

    You're welcome, Pompey!

    :D

    thanks finsbury

    i'm guessing portsmouth united is some sort of football club. unfortunately my only exposure to that fine sport is at the local crown and anchor, where game nights are always too violent to try and figure out which team is which (rowdy brits coming over here and scaring all the americans! ;).

    oh! my favorite reference to pompey comes from Measure for Measure:

    "Your bum is the greatest thing about you; so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pompey the Great"

    Act 2, i believe

    it's juvenile humor, but it's also shakespeare, so i guess the one cancels out the other
    W.A.S.T.E.
  • pompey
    pompey Posts: 10
    Originally posted by PastaNazi
    AND the site of the most awesome display of limey brits with techno-toys i've ever seen... though they spelled pompey wrong... with two i's and not a Y

    (did i perchance detect a hint of sarcasm??? if not, please... put one in there, where it rightly belongs.... i'm by no means intimate with the finer words in the language such as "phraseology"... i mean, I get it, but... well maybe i'd use it now? i dunno... what rhymes with phraseology? starbucksdazedeology??? coin it baby... :) send it to the mint, it's a keeper)



    how ya doing rarghragh?

    naw...i would never impose my sarcasm on strangers. Enemies, yes; strangers, no.

    and the last thing i would ever do is inflict more starbucks-related phraseologies onto the lexicon, man! i have enough trouble remembering that tall means little and grande means medium (and, as it were, that chai tea is actually redundant)
    W.A.S.T.E.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Pompey's the sixteenth/seventeenth century English spelling, PastaNazi. I think Roger Waters didn't get Shakespearean until "The Final Cut". :)

    Yes, Pompey, that's right! Your namesake was the loveable old tapster bawd who was summoned by the wordmangling Constable Elbow before Duke Escalus on the charge of keeping "a respected house" (er, a house of ill repute, a brothel).
    I love that scene. Most Shakespeare comedy requires a lot of prior background reading to understand, and even then it doesn't really raise any titters, but that scene in "Measure For Measure" is one of his better moments, IMO.

    Thanks for bringing that up!

    :)
  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    Originally posted by PastaNazi
    AND the site of the most awesome display of limey brits with techno-toys i've ever seen... though they spelled pompey wrong... with two i's and not a Y

    (did i perchance detect a hint of sarcasm??? if not, please... put one in there, where it rightly belongs.... i'm by no means intimate with the finer words in the language such as "phraseology"... i mean, I get it, but... well maybe i'd use it now? i dunno... what rhymes with phraseology? starbucksdazedeology??? coin it baby... :) send it to the mint, it's a keeper)



    how ya doing rarghragh?
    hi missed u :(

    im just the cute gf
    i dont know this nerd talk
    but it does turn me on so ;)
    Rarghstarfarian.
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    Originally posted by rarghrargh-brownstar
    hi missed u :(

    im just the cute gf
    i dont know this nerd talk
    but it does turn me on so ;)


    i don't know the nerd talk either LOL


    but, sheelouie.... ain't it sexy?


    ?:D?:D?
  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    Originally posted by PastaNazi
    i don't know the nerd talk either LOL


    but, sheelouie.... ain't it sexy?


    ?:D?:D?
    sheelouie??

    ur with them :(

    thats cool i dont mind taking on three
    heh-heh

    sheelouie...nice.....
    Rarghstarfarian.
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    i'm not really with them
    i can stand around and act like i know stuff
    and then about 12 hours later
    i might figure out what the heck was said :D


    i need a secret-bigword-decoder-ring

    or a glass of O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E


    or something ;)
  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    Originally posted by PastaNazi
    i'm not really with them
    i can stand around and act like i know stuff
    and then about 12 hours later
    i might figure out what the heck was said :D


    i need a secret-bigword-decoder-ring

    or a glass of O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E


    or something ;)
    me? im just and idiot-savant ( no offense to i-s's)
    shouldnt flatter myself

    mmmmm ovaltine
    sounds like a great decoder-ring- thingy



    I'll be playing with my magazine
    Usin' up my listerine
    Like ovaltine
    Rarghstarfarian.

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