XNASA
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Wed May-03-06 10:00 AM
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If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me? |
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Wed May-03-06 10:01 AM
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XNASA
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Wed May-03-06 10:14 AM
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3. Yes. It's a Chaucerian pick-up line. |
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 10:23 AM by XNASA
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Wed May-03-06 10:17 AM
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How very anachronistic of him. ;)
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Wed May-03-06 10:19 AM
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Pick up any Chaucierians lately with it?
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Wed May-03-06 12:24 PM
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12. I thought it was an Olde English pickup line... |
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Apparently I am more familiar with my malt liquor than with Middle English. :shrug:
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Wed May-03-06 10:09 AM
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2. I hate Middle English. nt |
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I also hated the professor. He was a dick.
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Wed May-03-06 10:37 AM
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6. Mine shoures soote shalt bathe thy every veyne in swich licour |
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 10:38 AM by jpgray
Of which vertu engendred is the boor.
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Wed May-03-06 11:00 AM
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8. Only if one of us posts the translation. nt |
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Wed May-03-06 12:48 PM
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Wed May-03-06 12:54 PM
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15. Aye, and eek to inspire thy tender croppes to melodye |
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 12:55 PM by jpgray
with mine brethe sweete, to freake.
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Wed May-03-06 10:54 AM
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7. Dew ewe waant , dew ewe waant to go back to my place |
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Wed May-03-06 12:52 PM
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 12:53 PM by jpgray
:patriot:
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Wed May-03-06 11:52 AM
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9. Can't decide whether to say |
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a} I'm not that type of Chaucerian chick
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b) Anytime you rube. Your stable or mine?
Ack this virgin/whore schism is so-o-o totally confusing. :)
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Wed May-03-06 12:23 PM
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11. Whattes a nice maiden like thou, doest in a place svch as this? |
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 12:24 PM by XNASA
Makstow a pilgrymage heere often? :hi:
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Wed May-03-06 01:31 PM
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16. Damned-ist if I knoweth. |
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 01:32 PM by stellanoir
And Oh yay verily, I be-ist a bona fide stable fly.
Nowest and againeth if you knoweth whatith I meanith.
I tarryith so.
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Wed May-03-06 12:18 PM
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10. Ever heard Shakespeare in Elizabethan cadence/pronounciation? |
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Best if it's a comedy, because even the St. Crispin's day speach is HILARIOUS.
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