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RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - Nia M - 08-02-2010 06:05 PM
Hadn't noticed the arm-lock thing, but that's brilliant!!
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - kirmostar - 08-02-2010 06:12 PM
bet you it was RA's idea, what a poppet....
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - Nia M - 08-02-2010 06:17 PM
*snorts*
Ha! Poppet
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - kirmostar - 08-02-2010 06:21 PM
Yes I know, Guy doesn't really evoke the word 'poppet' but it's a word that jumps into my head whenever I think of RA........
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - TygerBright - 08-02-2010 06:36 PM
Guy on the other hand evokes the word "muppet" ever so often
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - Nia M - 08-02-2010 07:30 PM
Muppets and poppets - such fabulous words that one rarely hears
I think I'm going to have to use them more often now...
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - TygerBright - 08-02-2010 07:53 PM
I rarely have use for "poppet" but if you were to share even 1 hour of my day you'd be sick of "muppet".. as I am sick of the people deserving that description. It's a rather good word though, you can properly spit it out.. and it's not as offensive as some of my four-letter choices
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - Nia M - 08-02-2010 08:13 PM
I more often use 'moose', 'mollusc', 'amoeba' and (if I'm in a very agitated mood) 'dactylic hexameter with a catelexis' (or something to that extent)...
However, 'dibunophyllum bipartitum', 'retrograde inversion' and several not-quite Shakespearian insults like 'pestilent hedge-born wagtail' have also featured.
(If you were wondering how I remember them all, I recently had a little 'Shakespearian insult' war with a couple of friends, and I still have all the texts
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - TygerBright - 08-02-2010 08:22 PM
gee you must have a really good memory and quick tongue
I need to get them out fast before I forget who or what ignited my ire so I stick to words of 3 syllables or fewer
(unless I need to really vent my anger in which case I use 9 of them as adjectives and add a four-letter noun 
)...and before we get reminded to stay OT - I quite liked some of the sheriff's insults in Robin Hood.. and Keith Allen delivered them so brilliantly. Quite like Nickolas Grace in "Robin of Sherwood"...
RE: Robin Hood (other interests) - Nia M - 08-02-2010 09:56 PM
I've got the dactylic hexameter one memorised, but the other ones I did via text so had longer to remember them