tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post7604375322840722054..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: The Trousers of DecorumDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-80416951320369483942007-04-08T22:22:00.000+01:002007-04-08T22:22:00.000+01:00Terrible pun, yes, but also terribly fun!Jeffery H...Terrible pun, yes, but also terribly fun!<BR/><BR/>Jeffery Hodges<BR/><BR/>* * *Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-67903554507455137832007-04-04T18:01:00.000+01:002007-04-04T18:01:00.000+01:00Dearieme, if you conjure up images of Scotsmen's h...Dearieme, if you conjure up images of Scotsmen's hindquarters again, I shall have to ban you. <BR/><BR/>Prof. Hodges, a terrible pun, but I have it within my heart to forgive you. <BR/><BR/>Mr Higham, thanks.<BR/><BR/>Mr Duff, no apologies required.<BR/><BR/>Mr I. Castro, Lichtenberg was something of an Anglophile, and quite often used English words; still I too found it odd to see him use "backside".Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-82973961982829221682007-04-01T17:28:00.000+01:002007-04-01T17:28:00.000+01:00It is odd that Lichtenberg used the English word "...It is odd that Lichtenberg used the English word "backside" instead of his own German word "der Hintere." If he wanted to be understood, he would have stayed with his perfectly adequate native word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-48740172396397063572007-04-01T17:21:00.000+01:002007-04-01T17:21:00.000+01:00Sir, apologies but I have appropriated, with ackno...Sir, apologies but I have appropriated, with acknowledgement, your words, or to be precise, Lichtenburg's words in order to add a little lustre to a post of mine over at my place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-63617942077078833592007-03-31T15:09:00.000+01:002007-03-31T15:09:00.000+01:00You know, that's rather wonderful of dearieme. An ...You know, that's rather wonderful of dearieme. An important issue you've raised here, Deogolwulf.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-22715317365160282142007-03-31T04:22:00.000+01:002007-03-31T04:22:00.000+01:00And many today wear the Wallace-and-Gromit Wrong T...And many today wear the Wallace-and-Gromit Wrong Trousers of Indecorum...<BR/><BR/>...<I><B>ass</B></I>uming they wear trousers at all.<BR/><BR/>Jeffery Hodges<BR/><BR/>* * *Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-18530909160648321002007-03-30T15:38:00.000+01:002007-03-30T15:38:00.000+01:00The Waverley Steps in Edinburgh used to be the ene...The Waverley Steps in Edinburgh used to be the enemy of the Kilt of Decorum.deariemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654632450454559188noreply@blogger.com