BS: Catamite

Subject: BS: Catamite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:52 AM

Not something to spread on your toast!
Ask Ganymede.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:55 AM

Giok, you are a very bad man. Must be why I like you.

As to how I know what it means, I own a dictionary.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:59 AM

it's a minute spider-like insect infestation of 'catters, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:16 AM

But a paste made of ground up termite probably makes a tasty spread. Thousands of aardvarks can't all be wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:18 AM

Stupid thread number 623.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:38 AM

Yes, Ted, but the more stupid threads there are, the more chances you have to make hundtredth posts to them!

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Leadfingers
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:45 AM

Incorrect- Ted goes for the 99th post

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:46 AM

shucks...I knew the word immediately, though I've not seen it in print for lo'! these 40 years or more....tells you something about either mis-spent youth or mind like flypaper...or both...

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:54 AM

NINETY NINE! I thank you (in advance)

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: saulgoldie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:15 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:15 PM

I knew the word also...from my perusal of the Trial of Oscar Wilde.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Paul Burke
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:25 PM

Yes but did you know where the word came from? Poor Hebe. Or maybe not.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:21 PM

Yes. Weren't they the people who lived in Chatam?

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:38 PM

In addition to Wilde, Mary Stewart used it in her Merlin series (The Crystal Cave, etc.) As Bill D says, that mind like a lint trap holds onto the darnedest things. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:56 PM

I thought it must be a feline yeast extract,

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 01:57 PM

Giok, if you keep your marmite in the fridge, do you keep your catamite in there too? Comments about slipping into something cool are NOT allowed

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:05 PM

17!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:09 PM

Lord Alfred Douglas was too tall for the average household fridge Lynne!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Micca
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:19 PM

Well,!!!! I for one do not want to find that spread all over my Toast!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:25 PM

A catamite was the younger partner in a pederastic relationship between two males in the ancient world, especially Greece. The word, a later label, is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, a corruption of the Greek Ganymedes, the boy who was seduced by Zeus and became his lover and cupbearer in Greek mythology.

Sentence: "Q: Why do men fall in love? A; Hell, I don't know, but a catamite."


A

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:07 PM

Catamite, catamount, cata-strophe, cat-o-nine-tails, catapult, catalogue.
use them and any others along the same lines in a sentence.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:09 PM

Pussy's ill give the cat a tonic.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:28 PM

cat o'nine tails catamount catamite. catapult, catolog. Catastrophe!

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:33 PM

Catamite, catamount, cata-strophe, cat-o-nine-tails, catapult, catalogue.

A catastrophe! -- the catamite with the catapult catalogue was eaten by a catamount after whipping it with a cat-o-ning-tails!

(How's that, Seamus? Or do I have to use the words in order?)

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:16 PM

anybody got the opening sentence of Earthly Powers to hand by the same bloke who wrote the Clock work Orange - Anthony Something?

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:30 PM

Burgess

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: gnomad
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:35 PM

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archibishop had come to see me."

That one?

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 06:14 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 06:54 PM

It's very good for your throat, catamite is. Best with a twist oif lemon and some honey.

Oh, sorry, that's camomile...

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:28 PM

I guess that catamites & morphodites were both named by people too bashful to enunciate clearly.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: An ill-defined boundary invites tactile exploration. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: open mike
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:28 PM

no, no, you must mean catlinite (pipestone)from minnesota
http://store.wanderingbull.com/catlinitepipes.html

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:56 AM

thankyou srs and gnomad..........

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 03:19 PM

One bugger of a thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 02:18 AM

Rap, good one.
Mmario, try again! You're not getting off that easily.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 05:50 AM

One morning in my home town of Catamount Colorado, I said to Carlo my catamite, "Do you know sometimes I think my life is just a catalogue of catastrophies" Carlo just lay there like he was in a catatonic trance, showing no sign of having heard a word I'd said. So I grabbed the cat-o'-nine-tails from the cuphook on by the cupboard, and cracked loudly in the air above him. Well he catapulted out of that bed like a cat off hot bricks, he rolled like a catherine wheel on the bed side rug upsetting the vase of catnip on the bedside table, and headed for the bathroom like a scalded cat.
But I knew he wanted me to catch him.......................

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 03:23 PM

And the winner is.......Giok!!

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: MMario
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 03:26 PM

heck- I didn't realize we could use that many other words!

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 03:44 PM

Carpe diem Mario carpe diem!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Catamite
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 01:46 AM

Of course you didn't Mmario, that's why Giok won.
Now quit being a sore loser, and go and seize a carp.

Well done, Giok!

Seamus