Wordie: Gay: Comments

Comment by bilby, 6 days ago

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:19:27 +0000

I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the mountain go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
'Tis now some two and twenty years,
Since she (her name is Martha Ray)
Gave with a maiden's true good will
Her company to Stephen Hill;
And she was blithe and gay,
And she was happy, happy still
Whene'er she thought of Stephen Hill.
- William Wordsworth, 'The Thorn', 1798.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:21:15 +0000

As an answer to plethora's comment, on another word (I just don't want it to become the "most active thread"):

I hate it too, and yes, plethora, it's your generation! :-) When I attended high school (I'm 28) it wasn't used that way, at least in Italy.

Comment by johnmperry, 3 months ago

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:35:49 +0000

"bonnie and blythe
and good and gay"

- check bonnie

Comment by johnmperry, 3 months ago

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:31:45 +0000

In the tales of Archy & Mehitabel (Don Marquis, 1916 onwards) the watchword of Mehitabel the cat was "toujours gay archy, toujours gay." Archy was a cockroach who couldn't hack the shift key on the typewriter, so always wrote in lower case.

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:29:14 +0000

An industrial town near Orenburg, Russia.

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:54:06 +0000

Yeah--that's probably the most sane policy.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:58:59 +0000

For what it's worth, I try not to think too much about other people's reactions anymore. :-)

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:37:57 +0000

re: sprite—Wow! It is heartening to see how non-flamey that potentially volatile discussion remained.

Inspired by one of reesetee's comments there, I feel like volunteering this bit of tangential autobiographica: I am bisexual, and trying to figure out when semi-self-referential ironic gay comments are going to be well received, has often proved a challenging social puzzle.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:38:02 +0000

Eeeeeek!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:12:29 +0000

Not a problem, npydyuan. But whatever else you do here, avoid mentioning the word sprite! ;-)

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:54:03 +0000

Well, that's a relief. I was referring to the sense of fag identified by SonofGroucho. My logophilia, I'm afraid, is often matched with juvenilia!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:15:59 +0000

Just a tad. But not to worry--I'm over it. :-)

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:11:40 +0000

Hmmm... no emoticon... have I genuinely offended?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:49:04 +0000

Er...npydyuan? Easy there.

Comment by npydyuan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:35:27 +0000

{sociophobic flail at humor contritely redacted by misshapen author}

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:32:48 +0000

Alas, I am full of woe.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:11:09 +0000

I work hard for a living...

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:35:34 +0000

True enough. :-)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:21:13 +0000

But no less bonnie, blythe, and good, I imagine.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:39:35 +0000

Interesting, I had no idea what day of the week I was born on, but thanks to the internet, I could look it up! Turns out: Sunday. However I am rather straight. ;-)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:48 +0000

Alas, I'm Tuesday's child. Apparently I am full of grace. ;-)

Comment by kewpid, about 1 year ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:26:44 +0000

But the child that is born
on the Sabbath day is…
bonnie and blythe
and good and gay.