Coad missing again

[Sharon Bowman]

I had to Google "MDIBTYD," FWIW, FML.

Every day I watch votive LOLCat videos, hoping for the return of Signor Coad.

*I have only seen through the 5th season of "The Sopranos." No spoilers! Let's all play 2004. Isn't this Ladoucette Pouilly-Fum great! (That's the kind of thing I was still drinking in 2004.)

 

[Jeff Grossman]

There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm always here. My restless spirit roams the parapets all night, until the cock crows and I return to my torments below.

Remember me!

My combined locks part and stand, like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

You're sure it's porpentine?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Porpentine, Shelley! Porpentine!!!

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Porpentine, Shelley! Porpentine!!!

Very odd. But I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

 

[Lou Kessler]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
ooooOOOOOOOooooOOOOOooooo

So what are we going to have to do to get you to materialize fully? Propitiations to the menehune?

Mark Lipton

Chris is not one of the little people, not an island myth, but a living legend who has been apparently lost in the fog of cyberspace.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
OMGIan Fitzsimmons, a veritable and unending poster figure for a phenom known as noob, now has more posts than former reigning champ Chris Coad, once rivaled only by the yakkity typin' fingers of SFJoe.

That's shocking.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm always here. My restless spirit roams the parapets all night, until the cock crows and I return to my torments below.

Remember me!

My combined locks part and stand, like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

You're sure it's porpentine?

Well, I was paraphrasing from Hamlet, as I thought Chris had done initially. But I didn't research the matter exhaustively. The Ghost of Hamlet's father does say 'porpentine,' in any event. Go figure.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm always here. My restless spirit roams the parapets all night, until the cock crows and I return to my torments below.

Remember me!

My combined locks part and stand, like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

You're sure it's porpentine?

Well, I was paraphrasing from Hamlet, as I thought Chris had done initially. But I didn't research the matter exhaustively. The Ghost of Hamlet's father does say 'porpentine,' in any event. Go figure.

And I was quoting Bertie Wooster in response :)

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm always here. My restless spirit roams the parapets all night, until the cock crows and I return to my torments below.

Remember me!

My combined locks part and stand, like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

You're sure it's porpentine?

Well, I was paraphrasing from Hamlet, as I thought Chris had done initially. But I didn't research the matter exhaustively. The Ghost of Hamlet's father does say 'porpentine,' in any event. Go figure.

And I was quoting Bertie Wooster in response :)

And what do you think Jeeves would have to say about an emoticon?

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

He might lift the eyeb.

I'm just reading The Adventures of Sally.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Jay Miller:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm always here. My restless spirit roams the parapets all night, until the cock crows and I return to my torments below.

Remember me!

My combined locks part and stand, like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

You're sure it's porpentine?

Well, I was paraphrasing from Hamlet, as I thought Chris had done initially. But I didn't research the matter exhaustively. The Ghost of Hamlet's father does say 'porpentine,' in any event. Go figure.

And I was quoting Bertie Wooster in response :)

And what do you think Jeeves would have to say about an emoticon?

:|

 

[SFJoe]

I hear he's gone over to some other board, but I can't find the url.

 

[Jay Miller]

I heard he was auditioning to replace Ted Allen on Chopped.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Which also reminds me of my very favorite of Chris' pranks on the old WLDG board: He made some innocuous posting and the software appended a note that the posting had been edited (by him). I thought it curious that something so short and dull had required editing so I clicked on the link to see the original version. Up comes something like:

...followed by the entire play.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--

Odd that he should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

I have a fuzzy memory of reading this play some time ago when I was in the Peace Corps; there was a footnote about this line. I think the point was that taxonomic terminology wasn't terribly well standardized in those times. If you've read some Shakespeare in unedited form, you've observed that spelling and diction were pretty variable - the title page Jeff's provided us with is a sample.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Shakespeare wrote well before Dr. Johnson so, well, anything goes. Went. Evs.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

The OED lists numbers of variants of porcupine going back to before the great vowel shift. From their examples, it looks as if the word didn't settle into its present form until later in the 17th century or so.

Shakespeare used the variant porpentine in numbers of other plays, as well. Probably as a result, the OED lists this variant as "literary."