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How does one evade inebriating the exuberance of one's own verbosity?

  • 30-01-2012 12:44AM
    #1
    Alan_H_1991
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 107 ✭✭


    How does one evade inebriating the exuberance of one's own verbosity?


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  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Ooooo look who swallowed a dictionary :P


  • #3
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Hoots mon! Who let the juice loose aboot this hoose?


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,264 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Blast it with thesauri


  • #5
    Mr. Rager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭Mr. Rager


    I'll have a consonant Carol


  • #6
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I'll have an hyperbole Carol.


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  • #7
    stovelid
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    Inebriating was the wrong word to take a guess on.


  • #8
    Alan_H_1991
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 107 ✭✭Alan_H_1991


    stovelid wrote: »
    Inebriating was the wrong word to take a guess on.

    huh :confused:


  • #9
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    stovelid wrote: »
    Inebriating was the wrong word to take a guess on.

    "Evade" doesn't really fit either...


  • #10
    admiralofthefleet
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    ill have a corpse please bob


  • #11
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Alan_H_1991 wrote: »
    huh :confused:

    Do you always thank posts that confuse you deeply?


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  • #12
    RichieC
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    I liked the money pit.


  • #13
    gurramok
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    Can someone translate the title of this thread? :)


  • #14
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,776 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    gurramok wrote: »
    Can someone translate the title of this thread? :)

    A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
    - Disraeli, describing his great Liberal rival Gladstone


  • #15
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Alan_H_1991 wrote: »
    How does one evade inebriating the exuberance of one's own verbosity?

    Since exuberance is, qua itself as metaphor, a form of intoxication, your formulation is tautologous, indeed redundant. However, to examine your query on the level of statement as opposed to metaphor, it is of course impossible to render an abstraction such as exuberance inebriated, since the verb requires the process of physical intoxication via the means of alcohol, a process impossible for a non-corporeal abstraction.
    Your query is without comprehensible semantic meaning on at least two levels, which leads me to the conclusion that your alleged verbosity is in fact merely a facade for either a talent for surrealism or simpleminded idiocy.
    Thanks for asking.


  • #16
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Welcome to the the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.


  • #17
    zapata
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭zapata


    Your ignorance is personified by the exuberance of your own verbosity....


  • #18
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,776 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Since exuberance is, qua itself as metaphor, a form of intoxication, your formulation is tautologous, indeed redundant. However, to examine your query on the level of statement as opposed to metaphor, it is of course impossible to render an abstraction such as exuberance inebriated, since the verb requires the process of physical intoxication via the means of alcohol, a process impossible for a non-corporeal abstraction.
    Your query is without comprehensible semantic meaning on at least two levels, which leads me to the conclusion that your alleged verbosity is in fact merely a facade for either a talent for surrealism or simpleminded idiocy.
    Thanks for asking.

    That's what I was going to say.


  • #19
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    I think I'm after having an epiphany...

    ...in my pants.


  • #20
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Do you mean how to avoid the ould isolative ego consuming you?

    In my experience, impossible


  • #21
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    talent for surrealism or simpleminded idiocy

    Synonyms.


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  • #22
    Shryke
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    English and stuff. Right on.


  • #23
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Since exuberance is, qua itself as metaphor, a form of intoxication, your formulation is tautologous, indeed redundant. However, to examine your query on the level of statement as opposed to metaphor, it is of course impossible to render an abstraction such as exuberance inebriated, since the verb requires the process of physical intoxication via the means of alcohol, a process impossible for a non-corporeal abstraction.
    Your query is without comprehensible semantic meaning on at least two levels, which leads me to the conclusion that your alleged verbosity is in fact merely a facade for either a talent for surrealism or simpleminded idiocy.
    Thanks for asking.

    I find that to be a cromulent response.


  • #24
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    ascanbe wrote: »
    I find that to be a cromulent response.

    And I feel I have been embiggened for having read it.


  • #25
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Confab wrote: »
    Synonyms.

    In AH? Almost always.


  • #26
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    And here was me thinking he meant 'how do you avoid letting on you are drunk while conversing with others'

    or something...
    ...so how do you?


  • #27
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Alan_H_1991 wrote: »
    How does one evade inebriating the exuberance of one's own verbosity?

    I concur.


  • #28
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Incredibly off topic. (not that there seems to be one!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644Ar2ZEp4A


  • #29
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭take everything


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Since exuberance is, qua itself as metaphor, a form of intoxication, your formulation is tautologous, indeed redundant. However, to examine your query on the level of statement as opposed to metaphor, it is of course impossible to render an abstraction such as exuberance inebriated, since the verb requires the process of physical intoxication via the means of alcohol, a process impossible for a non-corporeal abstraction.
    Your query is without comprehensible semantic meaning on at least two levels, which leads me to the conclusion that your alleged verbosity is in fact merely a facade for either a talent for surrealism or simpleminded idiocy.
    Thanks for asking.

    :pac::pac:


  • #30
    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    take everything wrote: »
    :pac::pac:

    Full marks!


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  • #31
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Alan_H_1991 wrote: »
    How does one evade inebriating the exuberance of one's own verbosity?

    Jaysus man, you need to stop drinking absinthe and go back to drinking beer!


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