who is the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

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"An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions" or "a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas" according to dictionary.com

I vote for me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

I think more people think you're a wanker.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

trife

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't everyone a wanker?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

monks

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

Eunuchs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

the paraplegic

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha, Ronan, can always rely on you to take a mature approach to things

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:47 (twenty years ago) link

don't qualify it.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 April 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

Not M*m_s then?

If I seem to contradict and put contrary views, it is with the smiling patience of a man who knows that the ultimate triumph of international socialism is a scientific inevitability (and who is also being severely rogered just out of of view).

I second Darn-to-hell.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

Curmudgeonliness suggests mild bad-temper arising from misanthropy, cynicism and world-weariness. Rather than extreme bad temper arising from envy, narcissism, neurosis and "ressentiment". Not Marcello, therefore.

― Petridish, Monday, 26 April 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

hulkington, fux0rs

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

He's a complex man - in theory he's in favour of fun.

Magnificent.

― the blissfox, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

But Momus you will as a man of science and truth you will recognize that there is much objective truth that simply doesn't break down into simple rational principles accessible to limited human logic. With time you will become aware of greater realities, and the access to them faith provides. Yes you will look for authority to guide you back to a moral life- God.

But I digress, Ive gotta be in the running surely? The smiley will seal it.

Peace ;)

― kiwi, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

We atheists prefer to solve our own problems ourselves because THERE IS NO HIGHER POWER. God is instead seen as a massive cop-out and form of prole control.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

them pies is flyin

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.

xpost

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

As a man of science I can tell you that a curmudgeon is a cross between a cormorant and a pigeon. That much is certain.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

an alternative definition of cormorant is "A greedy, rapacious person" and an alternative definition of pigeon is "One who is easily swindled; a dupe."

hmm....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

not a winning combination

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

perhaps this combination can best be described as Bilkonic.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

"dupacious"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

I second Darn-to-hell.

Just to be a curmudgeon about it, that'd be a mispronunciation - my last name rhymes with "Tarheel" if you scanned it as an iamb instead of a trochee.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 April 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.iprimus.com.au/spud1/Tumbler_Koros.JPG

This much I know to be true.

― Kiwi, Monday, 26 April 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago) link

I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

I nominate the anti-Ned.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, I'll vote for that. Um, who is this person?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

He is the little man behind the scenes. He is the mover and the shaker.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

it's me. i just don't show it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

He knows your deepest, darkest secrets.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

pah. back to lurking. grumble grumble, mutter mutter.

see?
told you so, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

VengaDan, that sounds like the protagonist from every Siouxsie and the Banshees song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

"Please......no.........not the anti-Ned!!!"

"I'm afraid so"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

you know on irc, the /ignore setting? do you get that on here, too?

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

He will menace you with his horrifying baby-arm.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

It's all so clear now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

His hump has crushed nations; the drool on his chain inspires terror in one hundred languages.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

I read this as "he humps nations"
time for coffee.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

It is said he makes his enemies walk only through riddle, having removed their legs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

He once killed a man just to watch him vainly attempt to stuff his intestines back into the gaping hole in his midriff.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, Groo the Wanderer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

the anti-ned is bald with sideburns.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

is he Scott Ian from Anthrax, then?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

that'd be cool, Anthrax rule!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I was about to say! I like him! And he lives nearby anyway, over in HB.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

Does Scott Ian have a baby arm?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

We could graft one onto him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

good times

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

Leave your baby arms behind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

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