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Aint that the Truth!

I blame you Orwell fo rthis bad run of punning. Its definetly your fault and the Truth will out!

be carefull who you telll , that you know the truth , oh my thats sad , orwell your not Bi are you? not that it matters and I know you from the HMF, im from across the pond . dont hold it against me , if only it wasnt for our government. Anyway the truth will set you free , enough of the puns

yes petty I definately agree with you . by the way give me the definition of crabbit since I am a newbie .

I wanna know how a "Bree-landian" can be a "Shireling"? Bree (and its queer folk) are 'outside' the Shire from what I remember!

the truth wrote:yes petty I definately agree with you . by the way give me the definition of crabbit since I am a newbie .

It is a word related to crabby, probably.

thesaurus.com wrote:
Main Entry: crabby/crabbed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in a bad mood
Synonyms: acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petty-like, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable,
Antonyms: happy
* = informal/non-formal usage

Hope you don't mind, but I added another synonym Amarie.

Thankyou Amarie for helping out with those definitions- but it does not do the majesty that is crabbit justice- must have been from an english site.
(mainly though these definitions always fail to pick up on the inbuilt humour, even the word is meant to sound comical).

And worse no mention of crabbit mathmatics, the importance of crabbit meters or how to build a successful nation out of the belief things just arent good enough, especially things other people are doing, and we may as well all just go down the pub instead and complain about it until we are drunk enough to either fix it or more usually fall over.

I always thought crabbit was a contraction of crap-rabbit.

Thats fighting talk that is Eldo! - right after Ive finished these buckies.

Crabbit,
acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petty-like, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable,
= Petty

Mrs Figg you have put a tear in my eye.
I never knew you thought THAT highly of me!

I'm here to help, Centurian.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Thats fighting talk that is Eldo! - right after Ive finished these buckies.

Hi guys, Ive noticed that under my avatar, Ive now been called a "beorning"?
I dont understand the guide lines here, is there a "scale" one climbs, & is called something different each "climb"? Just curious, Thankyou.

Yeah, there's a system of ranks that everyone advances through as they gain more posts. It's based on all the places that Bilbo visits in The Hobbit. It currently tops out at 500, though I should really update it soon. Also, some people have custom titles.

The list of ranks is right here. http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/t43-new-forum-ranks

AH, I understand now,thanks, nice idea,about Bilbo's travelling !

I don't understand the 'wannabe beard'. I thought maybe it meant wanting to be GB.

what, GB, as in "getting better"?

Gandalf's Beard. A liberal I believe.

"Wannabe Beard" was a joke about how on the Old Forum GB had way more posts than anyone else, and none of us could ever catch up to him. It's a lot less relevant now that he's stopped posting and Petty is the one who outstrips everyone in terms of posts.

I don't understand the 'wannabe beard'. I thought maybe it meant wanting to be GB.- Hlafwise

It does. On the old forum GB was the highest poster, no matter how hard some folk strived to cacth him (the commerative spamathon tradition people occasionally go on here, posting in every thread, I believe originated about this time).
Eldo therefore made the highest rank on Forumshire a 'wannabe Beard'.

Azriel you can request a title if you wish, or some folk like the community to make suggestions for a title for them.
Or you can stick with the default ranking system Eldo put in place.
In which case you can look forward to one day becoming a 'Man of Dale' and confusing Orwell even further.

Double posting Eldo but I cant be bothered changing it!

I recall that when her she reached a certain number of posts, Kafria demanded a special "Girlie of Dale" rank (and later "Queen Under The Mountain") since she didn't want to be called a man.

No,Il stick with confusing Orwell !, unless someone can come up with something that will REALLY do his nut in !

Pettytyrant101 wrote:(the commerative spamathon tradition people occasionally go on here, posting in every thread, I believe originated about this time).

I am the king of spamathon.