Sheep, baaaaaaah, baaah bah!
POSTED BY: AngusThermopyle
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 16:23
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Personally, I prefer "wahooni-shaped," but that's just for preference.
(edited to add)
Serial posts, ah, the sign of a truly ironic mind.
"There is no dignity for a cat on fire." Cosi
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Originally posted by embers:Quote:
Originally posted by Lunatikat:
Being British, I am hoping that you may be able to tell me the meaning of the phrase "pear-shaped", as in "and then it all went pear-shaped"
THANK YOU!
I'm not British, and I would really like to know that one...
edited to add: I did find this:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Pearshaped.html
and further explanation here:
http://alt-usage-english.org/pear_shaped.html
this is sooo funny: it is a British expression all the time!
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pea2.htm
and you can give up on anyone online figuring out what irony means, I think it is too subtle for cyber-speak....
and what is up with all of Angust's double or triple posts? Hasn't any one taught you how to edit?
It's gone pear-shaped means it's all gone wrong.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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Originally posted by heb:Quote:
By all means, Heather. The irony is that my comments were tongue in cheek and they seem to have sparked off something.
I'm curious, do you only take the mick out of people you've gotten to know then? Me, I wade straight in there and break the ice as soon as possible, makes for more stimulating conversation. It's just "poison in jest", nothing more.
Maybe as a group of people meeting for the first time I would take light-heartedly take the mick but not when I'm the only newcomer to an established group and I'm not sure how it would be recieved.
Firstly I'd introduce myself.
Secondly I'd make sure that it was clear that my comments could not be interpretted as my actual thoughts. I'm still not seeing where in your initial post it could be interpretted that you didn't actually think some people on this board were 'sheep'. I'm sorry if I misunderstood but I still can't understand how your original statement is tongue in cheek.
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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
So, Heather, you're an elitist. You want everyone to pass some kind of longevity test before they can be themselves. They should all be polite and only speak when spoken to. If you'd wait that long, you'd probably either say nothing at all because you weren't totally sure whether everyone in the place would completely understand what you meant or everyone would ignore you. Personally, I don't like either option. Don't be a sheep. Get it? I took no offense at all. It's a laugh, just like using a rolled up fist from time to time.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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Yes, and we thank you for explaining the obvious, since nobody had posted, y'know, links explaining the obvious.
May you live in interesting times.....
"There is no dignity for a cat on fire." Cosi
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Have we all been judged crazy on the basis of one fan's notions?
If so, I sure hope that fan was me!
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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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I wonder where my fellow English teachers are? There used to be several of us here.
As I've been reading this thread I have been trying to decide which is better - Shakespeare or Joss Whedon. My head almost exploded. If you don't love Shakespeare, you should sit in my class for a day while we do Romeo and Juliet, and by the end I assure you, you will be mezmerized. Not by the acting, because most of my students are lousy actors, but by the beauty of the words. I think the students who hate Shakespeare just had teachers who didn't know how to teach it.
Also, as has been discussed in a previous thread, Irony is roughly when something happens that is the opposite of what was expected. For instance, when Oedipus learns that he will kill his father and marries his mother, he runs away. In the process of escaping his fate, he kills his father and marries his mother. He expected to get away from the danger by running away, whereas if he had stayed put, the tragedy would not have happened.
So when Angusthermopyle posted, he expected for people to react negatively. When HEB reacted negatively, she did exactly what Angus expected. Therefore, her reaction is in no way ironic.
Don't try this at home, folks. I am a professional.
"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."
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Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
[Don't be a sheep.
Damn you, insideous trollman! Just when you had convinced me sheepdom was a virtue.
Guildsister
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Originally posted by Lunatikat:
Also:message to EVERYONE: look up the meaning of the word irony, willya, sheesh.
"Irony is only hypocrisy with style." - Al Pacino in Looking For Richard
One of my favorite quotes.
Also, could someone explain the phrase "take the mick" to us non-Brits? The only British phrases I know come from Monty Python, and I don't remember that one.
Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.
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I prefer being called an automoton.
Thanks.
"..it is my very favorite gun."
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Originally posted by maugwai:
Shakespeare or Joss Whedon.
There's actually a good comparison between the two. Shakespeare wrote popular work meant for the masses. He only became a thing to frighten English students when 'thee' and 'thou' dropped out of common useage. Shakespeare wasn't writing (dramatic classical drum-roll) Shakespeare.
As Shakespeare was a brilliant craftsman of the language, it is invariably Joss's dialog-writing that causes primary mention with his works. As mentioned at the start of this thread--the vernacular. The tools of both Joss and Shakespeare are words shaped into clever, compelling patterns that catch the imagination and are repeated so often they become cliches of themselves.
In 500 years Joss's works may also cause groans of dismay when students are told the 'have' to read Buffys or Fireflys. But he's just so hard to understand...
Guildsister
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