This was an thoughtful and academic explanation as to the uses of the said word, with references to use and examples from popular television. Even though I attempted to keep it to a acceptable standard, given this is a public forum, it's best that it is removed.

Since removed. 

Steady on, Gents. 
Cheers - Phil

Yeah, I was thinking that when I was writing that last post.

My fault (again) for starting it all off.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 February 2015, 04:46:40 AM
Because we're nudists. The game happened for the usual reason wargames do.

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Quote from: getagrip on 28 February 2015, 03:04:59 PM
I'm using that from now on: "an utter Centurion!"

o centvrionem totum!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 March 2015, 01:13:12 AM
o centvrionem totum!

You get a higher class of insult on this forum 

Taking this a step further, it likewise baffles me that a man may be insulted by being called a p***k. Given that men define themselves by that member, it sounds like a compliment! I'm sure when Brando was described by critic Kazan in the role of Kowalski as a "walking penis", he wasn't offended.

 

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 March 2015, 01:20:49 AM
Taking this a step further, it likewise baffles me that a man may be insulted by being called a p***k. Given that men define themselves by that member, it sounds like a compliment! I'm sure when Brando was described by critic Kazan in the role of Kowalski as a "walking penis", he wasn't offended.

I had to read to the end before I worked out that p***k wasn't actually 'plank' which was my first thought. 

Quote from: Subedai on 01 March 2015, 09:40:54 AM

I had to read to the end before I worked out that p***k wasn't actually 'plank' which was my first thought. 

So innocent 

I thought it was prank

You dear, sweet, innocent children.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 March 2015, 10:17:58 AM
You dear, sweet, innocent children.

I know, I feel like a right plonk

You great lager!

would that be a plink-plonk plank?

This happened today & I thought I'd share;

I live in a small town outside of Canberra, the population is about 5,000. We have a fairly good club of about 20 members and we run a BBQ at the farmers markets once a month to raise funds for the  club which works well, we raise a lot of money for a small club.

We have a small sign at our stand and people often enquire as to what Tabletop Gaming is so we decide we would advertise better and put on a demonstration game today to give the punters a better idea of what the club was all about. It worked well and we had quite a few people enquiring further and taking the flyers we had prepared and we encouraged them to come along to our next meeting. All was going well

Then I heard my name called out but didn't immediately recognise the person, after a handshake it turned out to be the DM from my old roleplaying group from the town where I grew up and I hadn't seen for about 10 years, turns out he moved to the same small town I had by sheer coincidence. What was even better is that he has started a medieval combat society in town and he his wife has created her own roleplaying game and world to go with it.

So what started out as an event to raise the profile of our club turned into meeting an old friend and an opportunity to be involved in Medieval combat & roleplaying again which I'd missed since I moved many moons ago.

Medieval combat in Oz; ew, sweaty!