- Jan 12, 2012
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It's not worth all that trouble.
It's not worth all that trouble.
I sometimes will refer to someone as a "pompous ass" while standing on my veranda smoking a pipe and enjoying a snifter of brandy, usually, just before retiring to my study to watch the BBC channel.
And I thought Mark Anthony falling on his sword was a pretty good suicide.....
Ahhh, so that was YOU lurking in the weeds.....err......shrubbery!It's a corn cob pipe, the likker's from your cousin in Kentucky's still, and your snifter is a mason jar...
And no KET 3 is not BBC....
Just out of curiosity, do people still actually say "pompous ass?" That's a pretty high class insult. If someone called me that, in person, I'd expect them to calmly put away their snuff box, and then slap me across the face with a glove.
Some of us still do, but we generally reserve it for special occasions, much like we don't wear a necktie regularly.
I sometimes will refer to someone as a "pompous ass" while standing on my veranda smoking a pipe and enjoying a snifter of brandy, usually, just before retiring to my study to watch the BBC channel.
This!!!
Sometimes it just fits. Like the blathering limey from across the pond. Tell me that when you try to imagine a pompous ass Piers Morgan's face doesn't fit the description perfectly.
Sometimes it just fits. Like the blathering limey from across the pond. Tell me that when you try to imagine a pompous ass Piers Morgan's face doesn't fit the description perfectly.
You mean you're not shiny any more?
Hmmm.
Well, I can add this to the discussion:
1. I am pompous.
2. I am an ass.
I'm not sure if I am a pompous ass, though. I predict that I will receive confirmation in 3, 2, 1, . . .
It is possible to be one or the other without being both. It takes practice and experience to be both. Being elected to some office can help one along, though.
I read elsewhere, from a source with unknown veracity, that they are in fact issued firearms, but upon arriving at the airport, must secure them in lock boxes, similar to police securing their firearms at a prison.
Any idea if that is true?
Well, for example, I'm not pompous.It is possible to be one or the other without being both. It takes practice and experience to be both. Being elected to some office can help one along, though.
Not to discredit them in any way because I know a few of them who are good guys...
Their issued weapons will NEVER be brought near the airport.