Are "more active" passive activities better?

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:03 am

fluffyhamster wrote:'I'm bored' - the usual refrain of children with absolutely no imagination, and destructive tendencies.

There are umpteen things you could be doing, young Timmy - how about:
1) checking out who 'Timmy' is in back issues of Viz
2) seeing if any dictionaries have definitions for 'to troll' or 'to flame sb, to get flamed; to start a flame war'
3) answering some of the more worthy (less unworthy?) among the 'Unanswered posts'
4) ...

YAWWWNNN!

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:11 pm

Well, you've obviously got little left to say, metal. Can we take it that your arrogance and spite is now spent, or will I need to keep stopping by this thread still to straighten you out?

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:35 pm

fluffyhamster wrote:Well, you've obviously got little left to say, metal. Can we take it that your arrogance and spite is now spent, or will I need to keep stopping by this thread still to straighten you out?

Zzzzzz!

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:58 am

I'll turn the light out, then, baby. Sweet dreams! <<Click>>

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:37 am

fluffyhamster wrote:I'll turn the light out, then, baby. Sweet dreams! <<Click>>

There you go, you had the last word. Happy?

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:02 am

I thought you were sleeping?!

Um, for me to 'have the last word', you'd "unfortunately" have to restrain yourself from posting after me at all, metal (d'ya think it'll be possible for you to do so?). I won't therefore be "happy", by this definition, until it is my words, and not yours, that are indeed the last appearing on this thread.

A possible compromize might be for you to quote the whole or part of my here post and somehow refrain from adding any "clever" words of your own, but unless I type something like 'I fluffyhamster am a humble tw*t whilst metal56 is the greatest!' (oh, wow, look, I just did, just for you!) you probably won't go for this option, eh.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:35 am

fluffyhamster wrote:I thought you were sleeping?!

Um, for me to 'have the last word', you'd "unfortunately" have to restrain yourself from posting after me at all, metal (d'ya think it'll be possible for you to do so?). I won't therefore be "happy", by this definition, until it is my words, and not yours, that are indeed the last appearing on this thread.

A possible compromize might be for you to quote the whole or part of my here post and somehow refrain from adding any "clever" words of your own, but unless I type something like 'I fluffyhamster am a humble tw*t whilst metal56 is the greatest!' (oh, wow, look, I just did, just for you!) you probably won't go for this option, eh.

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:44 pm

A plague on both your houses!

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:59 am

Fellow linguists, lend me your pickled brains, not your livers or spleens!

Dost thou thinkest that 'I fluffyhamster am a humble tw*t whilst metal56 is the greatest!' be a fair example of cunningly concealed ellipsis (after the 'greatest'), or tis this yet another example of mere tomfoolery from I, the perpetual jester?!

What sayest thou? Fear ye not mine large quivering incisors, for I am fluffy at heart.

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