An Entirely Gratuitous Circumlocutory Retrospective

I don’t know…I thought you said Sasquatch…seems the older I get, the confuser I be…

Posted by: @jack-dodds

@graeme-ogg You are without a doubt a master of GMT English Graeme, perhaps even left side of the pond English as well and thank you for all the great things you just stated...I assume.  I look forward to your inevitable swearing-in ceremony (remember "commitment" in 100s) in the near future where, with great emotion, I will watch you pledge your allegiance to The Forumite Think Tank(ed) before the portrait of our creator Alfred E. Neuman.  You have come a long way since "The Dullards" sir!

Sorry, I'd like to offer a coherent reply but am now in a deep, monosyllabic alcoholic stupor. Goodnight all, and welcome to 2024. (Or is it 1968? I forget).

Animals are so strange. Why would they want to pet dishes?

thats brilliant Graeme, happy new year

Posted by: @jkuvakas

Animals are so strange. Why would they want to pet dishes?

Quite so. You'd think one would suffice.

Posted by: @david-vandermeer

Thank you gentlemen; I now have a very serious case of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia…

There is an antidote for your stated fear David......twelve Gibsons martinis, olive and onion, stirred not shaken.  Given the date, perhaps you have already consumed such a dosage last night.....in which case you have another condition to deal with.

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

Posted by: @jack-dodds

@graeme-ogg You are without a doubt a master of GMT English Graeme, perhaps even left side of the pond English as well and thank you for all the great things you just stated...I assume.  I look forward to your inevitable swearing-in ceremony (remember "commitment" in 100s) in the near future where, with great emotion, I will watch you pledge your allegiance to The Forumite Think Tank(ed) before the portrait of our creator Alfred E. Neuman.  You have come a long way since "The Dullards" sir!

Sorry, I'd like to offer a coherent reply but am now in a deep, monosyllabic alcoholic stupor. Goodnight all, and welcome to 2024. (Or is it 1968? I forget).

Sleep tight Graeme....well I guess that's inevitable.  I will pray for all of our sakes that it is in fact 1968 when you awake; whereupon I will rush down to my nearest  Mercury and place my order!

Being a construction worker most of my life, I have never found a use/NEED for all these words. 

"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia refers to the phobia or fear of long words. Feelings of shame or fear of ridicule for mispronouncing long words may cause distress or anxiety. Phobia isn't officially recognized as a diagnosis, so more research is needed."

I don't fear long words, they just seem unnecessary to get the point across. Besides, I seem to always have more important things to do than study silly/unnecessary long words. They make up a language most people don't understand. And give the users a feeling of superiority, I guess. To the rest of us it is like trying to figure out a foreign language, why bother.

@brush I couldn't agree more Bruce and I wish Graeme, JK, JayBee and the others would just take a period of somnolence and quiescence to cogitate as to why they possess such a propensity to promulgate such drivel.   

Seriously though IMHO we do it simply to have a chuckle and basically take the piss out of one another.  If anything, it makes us look like idiots, which is a personal goal of mine in participating....and a natural talent I might add.  It may be boring or perhaps irritating at times but please don't be offended by it....nothing of the sort intended.  You were good at construction which I find difficult; my forte is drivel.  It's all good my friend!

Oh, absolutely. You may not be aware but this is Simian Pride Week and your polite yet robust defence of our modus operandi is most appropriate at this time.

Wait...you guys just look like idiots?? I thought we were all true idiots in this together, not just pretending! I feel so betrayed!

No, no, don't feel that way about it. I think Mr Dodds was just expressing our long-standing aspirations but, on behalf of all of us, felt that it would be immodest to claim we are the real deal.

@jkuvakas Well it would be out of place to comment on others JK and as you know I am....ahem.... kindly by nature and not one to do such a thing; but I will confess that I am a complete dolt.  For clarification....an idiot is someone who does something stupid and/or ridiculous on occasion and seems somewhat unable to learn from his mistakes; a dolt however is basically an idiot 24/7.  On a construction theme and out of respect for Bruce's perspective, I am as thick as two short planks. And that's construction grade finished x2 so 3 and 1/2 inches which is pretty thick. Call me an underachiever but I am very much a realist; plus I'm too idle to make an effort to change at this age.  So before you start tumbling to the floor in faux anguish, yelling "Et tu Jack!" please understand that you have my support...we are as one.....you, me and the other clowns.

Graeme, I do thank you for your post of support.  Coming from a man whose Christmas activities are centered on picking off carolers from his front porch and excavating a cavernous basement refuge into which his house will inevitably collapse, your  comments are invaluable and influential.

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

Oh, absolutely. You may not be aware but this is Simian Pride Week and your polite yet robust defence of our modus operandi is most appropriate at this time.

I have nothing against Simians and respect their right to form an annual pride parade down Main Street but I must say that the blatant showing off of the bald areas of their arses and picking nits from one another's hair en route is just "not on" with me.  I say...parade if you must but in the name of all that is decent....please retain your diapers!  Think of the children!