who is the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

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Marcello is a wally, not a curmudgeon.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

[points to self]

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh - is 'wally' back?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/imgdata/4577020823.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

i always think of curmudgeon as being 'bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous etc', but in a cuddly sort of way. when i hear 'curmudgeon' i sort of think it implies a fondness for the grump in question. as for the question, uh, there have been some good suggestions above.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

I vote for Aja.

― andrew 'dean!' clay (deangulberry), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

I think that's just cause we find it hard to take curmudgeons seriously.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

That was in reply to Kilian, sorry.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

dean, are you suggesting that aja isnt really a 13 year old girl? insanity!

― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

That's three people now who haven't agreed with the dictionary definition of "curmudgeon". Is it the fault of sitcom scriptwriters? I think of Richard Briers in Ever Decreasing Circles, Victor Meldrew, Alf Garnett, Steptoe etc whenever I hear the word "curmudgeon" and the humour seems to go hand in hand with the grumpiness.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

oochy wally.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

i was only joking when i said "amateurist," btw. (i did it mostly b/c he had posted immediately before i had.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

It is an unfortunate coincidence that curmudgeon rhymes with gudgeon, leading the naive to associate 'a species of small fish' and its inherent harmlessness, with 'a misanthrope instructed by long experience' -- and don't even ask me about the misconstructions that attend the word 'sourpuss'. They are many and egregious.

Your true curmudgeon has quaffed deeply from the bitter springs of life and has adapted himself accordingly, unlike all you callow, shallow, doe-eyed naifs who think it will only get better if you try harder, or some such milk-fed, weak-kneed Sunday-schoolism. Fie on you!

The most curmudgeonly man on ILX is a namby-pamby goody two-shoes compared to the correct yardstick. Why, you wet-behind-the-ears greensick fools couldn't put together a complete curmudgeon, even if you pooled parts into a composite and then lied on its resume.

Harrumph!

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link

Curmudgeon also rhymes with Gus Dudgeon.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

Mark C is a total curmudgeon. So negative.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago) link

He's a complex man - in theory he's in favour of fun.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

It's this conflict which makes him so compelling to viewers.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

Mark C veers between the extremes of curmudgeonry and extreme excitement and overenthusiasm. Chris revels in his curmudgeonry.

Anyway, I nominate Nicole as most curmudgeonly person on ILE.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:28 (twenty years ago) link

I was going to say Nicole, but I thought she wasn't a man. I'm so naive.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

don't try it, Dicky.

― Wally Klemmer, Monday, 26 April 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago) link

"An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions" or "a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas" according to dictionary.com

I vote for me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

I think more people think you're a wanker.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

trife

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't everyone a wanker?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

monks

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

Eunuchs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

the paraplegic

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha, Ronan, can always rely on you to take a mature approach to things

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:47 (twenty years ago) link

don't qualify it.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 April 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

Not M*m_s then?

If I seem to contradict and put contrary views, it is with the smiling patience of a man who knows that the ultimate triumph of international socialism is a scientific inevitability (and who is also being severely rogered just out of of view).

I second Darn-to-hell.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

Curmudgeonliness suggests mild bad-temper arising from misanthropy, cynicism and world-weariness. Rather than extreme bad temper arising from envy, narcissism, neurosis and "ressentiment". Not Marcello, therefore.

― Petridish, Monday, 26 April 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

hulkington, fux0rs

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

He's a complex man - in theory he's in favour of fun.

Magnificent.

― the blissfox, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

But Momus you will as a man of science and truth you will recognize that there is much objective truth that simply doesn't break down into simple rational principles accessible to limited human logic. With time you will become aware of greater realities, and the access to them faith provides. Yes you will look for authority to guide you back to a moral life- God.

But I digress, Ive gotta be in the running surely? The smiley will seal it.

Peace ;)

― kiwi, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

We atheists prefer to solve our own problems ourselves because THERE IS NO HIGHER POWER. God is instead seen as a massive cop-out and form of prole control.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

them pies is flyin

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.

xpost

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

As a man of science I can tell you that a curmudgeon is a cross between a cormorant and a pigeon. That much is certain.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

an alternative definition of cormorant is "A greedy, rapacious person" and an alternative definition of pigeon is "One who is easily swindled; a dupe."

hmm....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

not a winning combination

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

perhaps this combination can best be described as Bilkonic.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

"dupacious"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

I second Darn-to-hell.

Just to be a curmudgeon about it, that'd be a mispronunciation - my last name rhymes with "Tarheel" if you scanned it as an iamb instead of a trochee.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 April 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.iprimus.com.au/spud1/Tumbler_Koros.JPG

This much I know to be true.

― Kiwi, Monday, 26 April 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago) link

I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

I nominate the anti-Ned.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, I'll vote for that. Um, who is this person?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

He is the little man behind the scenes. He is the mover and the shaker.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

it's me. i just don't show it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

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