Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27934; Mon, 2 May 94 14:09:12 EDT Received: from BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18489; Mon, 2 May 94 14:08:28 EDT Received: by bloom-beacon.mit.edu (5.61/25-eef) id AA24676; Mon, 2 May 94 13:59:32 EDT Received: from news.std.com by bloom-beacon.mit.edu with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA24665; Mon, 2 May 94 13:59:26 EDT Received: from world.std.com by news.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.1) id AB22322; Mon, 2 May 1994 13:59:13 -0400 Received: from sug.org by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA04105; Mon, 2 May 1994 13:58:53 -0400 Received: by sug.org (5.61+++/Spike-2.1) id AA00707; Mon, 2 May 94 13:58:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 94 13:58:51 -0400 From: rick@sug.org (R. Gilbert) Message-Id: <9405021758.AA00707@sug.org> To: carolingia@world.std.com Subject: OK, now this is useful! Forwarded from friend to friend to me to you.... Something you might appreciate - J --- Forwarded mail from "Mark Horvath" To: spitzak@seabeam.com, chen, stevenson@hks --- Forwarded mail from "J.R.R.Tolkien's readers" To: Multiple recipients of list TOLKIEN The following message I'm forwarding from a friend of mine. Though it has no Tolkien content, I posted it anyway as an example of the rich English linguistic tradition which has drawn so much attention on our List lately.... > > > CREATE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS by Jerry Maguire, who > teaches English at Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana. > > Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced > with "Thou": > Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 > > artless base-court apple-john > bawdy bat-fowling baggage > beslubbering beef-witted barnacle > bootless beetle-headed bladder > churlish boil-brained boar-pig > cockered clapper-clawed bugbear > clouted clay-brained bum-bailey > craven common-kissing canker-blossom > currish crook-pated clack-dish > dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole > dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb > droning doghearted codpiece > errant dread-bolted death-token > fawning earth-vexing dewberry > fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon > froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench > frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill > gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker > goatish fly-bitten fustilarian > gorbellied folly-fallen giglet > impertinent fool-born gudgeon > infectious full-gorged haggard > jarring guts-griping harpy > loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig > lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast > mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger > mangled hell-hated jolthead > mewling idle-headed lewdster > paunchy ill-breeding lout > pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie > puking knotty-pated malt-worm > puny milk-livered mammet > quailing motley-minded measle > rank onion-eyed minnow > reeky plume-plucked miscreant > roguish pottle-deep moldwarp > ruttish pox-marked mumble-news > saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook > spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg > spongy rude-growing pignut > surly rump-fed puttock > tottering shard-borne pumpion > unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane > vain spur-galled scut > venomed swag-bellied skainsmate > villainous tardy-gaited strumpet > warped tickle-brained varlet > wayward toad-spotted vassal > weedy urchin-snouted whey-face > yeasty weather-bitten wagtail > I myself am fond of "unmuzzled, fen-sucked hedge-pig", but I will try to avoid using it on any of my worthy opponents on this List. Your Humble and Obedient, but non-toad-spotted, Servant, Ecthelion --- End of forwarded mail from "J.R.R.Tolkien's readers" --- End of forwarded mail from "Mark Horvath" Well...that should liven up the next event.... ______________________________________________________________________ Rick Gilbert "Where am I? ... Ah! your face! My God! Black! Sun User Group Are you a native? Is this Africa?" Suite 315 "Wha....? Oh, this mask!" 1330 Beacon Street "Are we in Venice then?" Brookline MA 02146 "A Lady is waiting for me." (617) 232-0514 "So this is PARIS!!!" rick@sug.org - Cyrano De Bergerac (opening April 22)