BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago

Subject: BS: like, that's so 3 centuries ago
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 05:57 PM

So, like, I'm like reading Tristram Shandy? And the narrator-guy - like, Tristram Shandy? - he's like:

If the fixture of Momus's glass in the human breast, according to the proposed emendation of that arch-critick, had taken place,--first, This foolish consequence would certainly have followed,--That the very wisest and very gravest of us all, in one coin or other, must have paid window-money every day of our lives.

So I'm like, y'know, "So I'm supposed to know what Momus's glass is? As if! And like, what's window-money supposed to be? Like, money you see through the window? So how come I gotta pay it? Like - I don' know - like - you know?"

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:00 PM

You said that in such a Sterne voice!

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,Canadienne
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:08 PM

LOL - I love a literary joke and Sentimental Journeys

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,Laurence Stern
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:23 PM

Do you know nothing, or has your education simply been stifled by drink? I wrote it in clear English and those who can understand will do so.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:36 PM

And those who cannot, will teach it.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:41 PM

Like, uh, Larry, like maybe back in the day, but don't get all, "I'm-so-smart-and-you're-not" on me, cuz like - this is 2007? And, like, we don't wear those real lame powdered wigs, y'know? Like, what's with that, anyway? And we don't know what, like, Momus's glass is? Y'know? And what window-money is? Y'know? So if you don't tell us, we'll just keep talking like this? And we'll think that you don't really know either - and, like, you'd look like a real lame-o.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:49 PM

Larry don't got the right spelling of his last name.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:52 PM

And, like, my drink has been stifled by education?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,terrier
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:57 PM

MONMUS..the god of blame and mockery
Momus' Glass..the road to self blame and inner discontent
Enter here if ye dare
Shandy..never touch the stuff myself..rather have a good single malt..

................snorrrrrrrre.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:00 PM

Are they called married malts when ya mix 'em?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Helen
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:01 PM

Like, Googling is like, so this century!


Momus (From Wikipedia)

If you Google for:

Momus glass

you'll find lots of info - and opinions - on what Sterne was on about. Clever bloke, that Sterne! Ian Dury could have included him in his list in the song called Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:02 PM

You no like, like?

In fact it's far easier for modern readers to check up on what references are about than would have been the case at the time the book was written. A few seconds time spent with Googfle and you've got the answer, like.

And if you can't manage that there's always asking on the Mudcat.

One second for momus

One second for window money

Though it took more than that to actually write it down here.

Not exactly rocket science, like.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:05 PM

Okay! That's so kewl! Somebody explained the Momus's glass thing! Now I just need to find out what window-money is and I'll understand the hole thing!

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:08 PM

You are so, like, yesterday, know what I'm saying? I'm like...whatever! As if. Do I sound like I'm worried?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:12 PM

Try this clickie...

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:42 PM

Thanx u guize! U r so cool! I've found out everything I wanted to know thanks to you guys, and it was so much more fun than just googling around, and you all got to show off how smart you are and suttle and un-buffoonish and everything. Hugz! If I need help with the next paragraph, I'll know who to ask!

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:47 PM

Mr Google is our friend.


But like, what did he really say?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:20 PM

"It's easy for the ignorant and uneducated to ridicule that which they do not understand."

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:21 PM

OK. Thanks, FT.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:25 PM

Didn't Laurence Sterne play with Strawberry Alarm Clock, like, back in the '60s?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:28 PM

What's that, Robin?

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:29 PM

A "Strawberry Alarm Clock" wakes you up sweetly, but is a bugger to punch...

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:30 PM

However, make tea from the leaves and it is binding.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:31 PM

gnu -

you obviously understand, cause that was not ridicule...

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Helen
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:41 PM

As for letting us do the Googling..this one's for you

;->

Give someone a fish, etc etc

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:58 PM

Yeah, but teach him to fish and he'll stay in the boat all day and drink beer.

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: Scoville
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 03:40 PM

One does a much better job of ridiculing what one does understand (just ask the ghost of Molly Ivins).

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 06:46 PM

Duz my face look bovvered ...

... am I bovvered though ..

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... etc ...

Subject: RE: BS: like, that's so 2 centuries ago
From: autolycus
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:58 PM

If guest thingy was hedgemecated,they'd know that what you do is read 200 year old books which have explanatory notes which explain all this stuff.

They'd have also found out that A point of reading old stuff is so as not to think that today is the only place,not to think that there's nothing to learn from anywhere else.

   mind you.guest thingamebob is one up on me - he's reading a classic,I'm internetting.






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