>>> Item number 38453 from WRITERS LOG9410B --- (55 records) ----- <<< Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 15:03:26 EDT Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Will a real person stand up? Subject: WOTD: Curmudgeon (was: Re: Poll) grace espoused: > define curmudgeon. [you'll be sorry!!!] since we haven't done one of these in a while... [and the doctor is out to lunch...leaving one finger out of the white mittens..] cur-mud-ge-on... cur, as many a whippersnapper knows, refers to a type of mangy mutt. mud is what one gets when one mixes soil and water (NOT DIRT! we grow things in soil, not dirt. dirt is what you have behind your ear...) ge--an obvious corruption of the more literate GEE properly used in getting a mule to move forward (or to the right, when mixed with HAW) [hawhawhawhaw--laughing in circles?] on--the counterpart to off, usually found towards the other end of switches. put it all together it spells mother... sorry. no, you have a reference to a dirty dog urging him to get up and go! close, but no ceegar! according to the electronic marvel dictionary here... cur.mud.geon \(.)k*r-'m*j-*n\ n [origin unknown] archaic 1: a grasping avaricious man : MISER 2: an irascible often old man - cur.mud.geon.ly aj aha! a sexist term! let's burn those men's jockstraps (your choice as to whether you let them take them off or not before inflaming them) and show that irascible nature is part of the greater basic fundament underneath all sexual typologies... [CELLULOSE? No, just plain old fat...] and typoes... UP WITH WORDS!!!! mad tink