Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BF?= on July 3, 2009, 2:33 pm
> 790 Al sodeynly thre leves have I plyght
> All suddenly have I plucked three leaves
Main Entry: 1sud·den
Etymology: Middle English sodain, from Anglo-French sudain, from Latin
subitaneus, from subitus sudden, from past participle of subire to
come up, from sub- up + ire to go — more at sub-, issue
Date: 14th century
Posted by Beav on July 3, 2009, 7:10 pm
> Doug Payne wrote:
>> OTOH it doesn't seem to mention the Wife of Bath telling the old man to
>> get lost.
> I didn't mean it all that literally. Actually, she socked him in the
> face and knocked him into the fireplace.
To keep things simple, maybe TOG should've just told the OP to fuck off? No
boring discussions needed.
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Posted by Sean_Q_ on July 3, 2009, 8:20 pm
Beav wrote:
> To keep things simple, maybe TOG should've just told the OP to fuck off? No
> boring discussions needed.
I recommend the Han Solo solution to boring conversations.
SQ
Posted by The Older Gentleman on July 4, 2009, 2:23 am
> Beav wrote:
>
> > To keep things simple, maybe TOG should've just told the OP to fuck off? No
> > boring discussions needed.
>
> I recommend the Han Solo solution to boring conversations.
>
Heh. I had to think about that for a while.
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Posted by Bob Mann on July 4, 2009, 2:43 am
> Bob Mann wrote:
>
>> When sod huts were being used in the region of Romford (if they ever
>> were), English wasn't a language yet.
>
> I don't know exactly when the sodding serfs of Romford were busy
> inventing rude phrases for TOG's use, but Old English was spoken
> during the Early Middle Ages and it evolved into Middle English by
> Chaucer's time in the Later Middle Ages. That's when the Wife of Bath
> told her pesky husband to sod off.
>
> SQ
Which, of course, ignores the fact that Romford, as with most of the UK,
has had proper building structures since well before the Middle Ages.
Romford has been a market town since 1247, and it holds the exclusive right
to hold markets over an area of radius "six and two thirds miles" centred
on Romford, a right granted in mediæval times.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-
zone/europe/uk/england/county/essex/romford/
It's located on the Roman Road between London and Colchester, two original
settlements of the Romans.
Approx 2000 years ago.
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> All suddenly have I plucked three leaves