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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    #16
    Originally posted by Il Grande Inquisitor View Post
    This is excellent news. Welcome into the Classical Host chair!

    We should have a callithump in celebration!

    (I hope this will not detract from your essential AA obligations )
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26572

      #17
      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      We should have a callithump in celebration!

      (I hope this will not detract from your essential AA obligations )
      What a great word!

      Definition of CALLITHUMP: a noisy boisterous band or parade
      Origin of CALLITHUMP
      back-formation from callithumpian, adjective, alteration of English dialect gallithumpian disturber of order at elections in 18th century


      The things one learns here... and on AA (which I have no intention of neglecting!)
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12936

        #18
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        What a great word!

        Definition of CALLITHUMP: a noisy boisterous band or parade
        Origin of CALLITHUMP
        back-formation from callithumpian, adjective, alteration of English dialect gallithumpian disturber of order at elections in 18th century


        ... a grand word, new to me

        I shall add it it to other faves with similar meanings -

        a wayzgoose



        a tamasha



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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26572

          #19
          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          ... a grand word, new to me


          a tamasha



          Surprisingly similar to the more familiar stramash..

          My place, around 8?

          Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 11-01-13, 14:28.
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            #20
            HOST - an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives

            congratulations

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20572

              #21

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26572

                #22
                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                HOST - an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives

                congratulations
                Great, thanks!

                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Anna

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  We should have a callithump in celebration!
                  I'm always up for a good callithumping! Congrats Rumpole on being given to keys to the Administration Panel, you are now truly Mine Host!

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25225

                    #24
                    I honestly had no idea that this was for real........


                    But, obviously this is stupendous news. Hurrah !!

                    I am expecting a creative new range of punishments for offenders....
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20572

                      #25
                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

                      I am expecting a creative new range of punishments for offenders....
                      That sounds like a scene from The Mikado.

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                      • Anna

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        That sounds like a scene from The Mikado.
                        He's got a little list
                        He's got a little list
                        of society offenders who might well be underground
                        who never would be missed
                        Who never would be missed

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26572

                          #27
                          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                          I honestly had no idea that this was for real........

                          But, obviously this is stupendous news. Hurrah !!

                          I am expecting a creative new range of punishments for offenders....




                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • mangerton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3346

                            #28
                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            I honestly had no idea that this was for real........


                            But, obviously this is stupendous news. Hurrah !!

                            I am expecting a creative new range of punishments for offenders....
                            Boiling oil and elliptical billiard balls will be involved, I'm sure, but there will be no strong arm tactics. Finesse is all.....

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26572

                              #29
                              Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                              elliptical billiard balls




                              You're way ahead of me there, mangie!
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • EdgeleyRob
                                Guest
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12180

                                #30
                                Congratulations on your promotion Caliban.
                                Keep the British music flag flying.

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