On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:23:00 GMT, carlfogel
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>"Thus Shakespeare began the story of the haughty princes
>and their revenge for the abduction of Helen in Troilus and
>Cressida, employing a colorful word first adopted in the
>13th century from Anglo-French "orguillus." After the
>Bard's day, "orgulous" dropped from sight for 200 years;
>there is no record of its use until it was rejuvenated by
>the pens of Robert Southey and Sir Walter Scott in the
>early 1800s. Twentieth- century novelists and journalists
>(including James Joyce and Virginia Woolf) continued its
>renaissance, and today "orgulous" is an elegant choice for
>proud writers everywhere."
>
>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Mar.14
>
>[The pun, of course, is "proud writers."]
>
>Actually, what spurred [pun] me on was:
>
>"And then they came afore the Castle Orgulous, and there
>was such a custom that there might no knight come by that
>castle but either he must joust or be prisoner, or at the
>least to lose his horse and his harness."
>
>I think that someone's frame is holding his seat post
>prisoner, so he's gonna lose his horse or harness or both
>to a hacksaw.
>
>Obfuscatorily,
For Carl (il miglior fabbro), with the usual apologies to
W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan et al:
Major-General Fogel
The most prolific author in the wreck-bike-tech community, I
burn up Usenet bandwidth with abandon and impunity. I never
want for reason to meander from a thread's topic, So you can
count on finding out each time my dog picks up a tick.
My posts are rife with quotes from writers no one here can
recognize; The more obscure the reference, the more you'll
think me oh-so-wise. I ken no more of bicycles than codfish
know of calculus; My messages instead give boring histories
of "orgulous".
I've well surpassed in posts this month that prolix guy from
Boulder who'll Have otherwise have buried us with all _his_
weary folderol. In short, I am this newsgroup's writing
champ, panjandrum and mogul: Your humble servant I remain,
Carl (Poet Laureate) Fogel.
Please post-date this for 4.1.04.
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