Well this is just *splendid*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 11:57, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I'm getting old
we are planning a Christmas "drinks party"...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:00, Reply)

No, Nakers, what you are is 'middle class' and all the better for it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:06, Reply)

Thanks bbz, of the course the advantage of your situation is that you get to be middle class but not embarrased about your wealth

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:08, Reply)

Indeed so.
Best of both worlds!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:10, Reply)

Really?
I picture Nakers more as a braying toff.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:08, Reply)

I mean 'middle class' in the more tradtional sense
as in 'upper eschelons of society but without title'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:11, Reply)

Good heavens, what a beazley thing to say!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:14, Reply)

I assume by that you mean "shite"?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:01, Reply)

Cor you're a fucking bright spark and no mistake!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:06, Reply)

+ Mary Poppins

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:10, Reply)

re: Christmas drinks
I could probably do Christmas Eve. I don't know what the trains would be like, though. Pain in the arse, probably.

(I totally say "re:" stuff IRL. I even pronounce it "Ree", because I'm definitely not a cunt)
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:02, Reply)

Do you normally attempt anal with trains?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:04, Reply)

Normally? No.
But it's Christmas!
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:05, Reply)

*something about only coming once a year*

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:11, Reply)

I'll be off to Venta Belgarum on Xmas Eve I suspect.
I call Winchester by its Roman name because I, too, am evidently not a cunt either.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:07, Reply)

Best of all the Ventas.

( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:10, Reply)

That's a pretty radical claim, but I reckon you might just be right here.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:17, Reply)

I will be very nearby...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:15, Reply)

Grow a pair and meet me for a jar at The Wykeham or The Black Boy, then.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:16, Reply)

Can't as I'm coming own Christams eve afer work and traight t a party, then of to the rentals on Christmas morn
I just thought you'd like to know Iwas nearby, looking oevr you like a benevolent god
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:17, Reply)

:(

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:23, Reply)

Christmas = many motorway miles
Hants for christmas eve, Wiltshire or Chrstamas day and Boxing day, back to london for two days, then wilts again to drop of sproglet then back to London to go to gtawick for ski hols.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:24, Reply)

You could invite Monty along to the party?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:23, Reply)

Family and inlaws, I've only been since I maried mrs ape

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:25, Reply)

I'm sure he wouldn't show you up.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:27, Reply)

I'm quite the social chameleon ACTUALLY
People's parents usually love me. In both senses of the word.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:32, Reply)

benevolent bent
god spastic
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:26, Reply)

Ingens morionem

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:18, Reply)

Hooray for Google Translate including latin

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:47, Reply)

Re: your post
How else would one pronounce it?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:08, Reply)

"Arr Ee"
I suspect. What with it being short for summat.
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:08, Reply)

'regarding', you frightful oaf?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:08, Reply)

Wouldn't that be incorrect?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:10, Reply)

How so?
If you read 'Ltd.' aloud, would you say 'limited'? I put it to you that you would.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:16, Reply)

I didn't think it was an abbreviation of 'regarding'

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:20, Reply)

I didn't think you were an idiot, but you clearly are.

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:20, Reply)

It was pretty idiotic of you not to notice before.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:42, Reply)

What is it short for then?
It's possible I just assumed this many years ago and this has now become a 'fact' in my mind...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:21, Reply)

of course it's a fact

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:22, Reply)

He's got me doubting myself now Nakers!
Villainous midlander shitbag that he is...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:22, Reply)

Origin:
Latin, ablative of res 'thing'
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:23, Reply)

So when somebody replies to an email
entitled "Tangles is such a granola munching prick", the subject line then becomes "(Latin for) Thing: Tangles is such a granola munching prick?"

Well. You live and learn.
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:28, Reply)

He's a fucking 'thing' alright.
The 'thing' is question is

Cunt:
(Anglo Saxon: 'minge' or 'fanny')
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:32, Reply)

I thought copying me in on those emails was unnecessarily cruel.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:34, Reply)

It is, which is why it boils my piss
when people use it in speech.
( Kroney, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:25, Reply)

Your face is incorrect

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 12 Nov 2012, 12:18, Reply)