The Graying of Apolyton

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Arrian
Wow, it's been 7 years. Though my reg date shows as 2001... I thought it was 1999. Whatever.

-Arrian (29)

Don't tell anyone, if they correct it you'll get old fast!

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Lancer
What's a 'whipper snapper'?

randomhouse.com
A whippersnapper is 'an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one'.

A few nineteenth-century examples: "Dost thou think it's nat'ral noo, that having such a proper mun as thou to keep company wi', I'd ever tak' opp wi' such a leetle scanty whipper-snapper as yon?" (Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby); "They think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers" (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women); "...had unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil...should become a Parliament man" (Trollope, Phineas Finn).

The word whippersnapper--which, as these citations indicate, is often hyphenated--is first recorded in this sense in the late 1690s; there's an example earlier in the seventeenth century, in a book about criminals, that seems to mean 'a rogue; petty criminal'.

Whippersnapper is probably a blend of the earlier whipster and snipper-snapper, themselves first recorded in the late sixteenth century. Snipper-snapper is now obsolete or dialectal; it is based on snip-snap, a gradational compound having various parts of speech all generally referring to "snappiness," as of conversation.

[Winston]

32 -> 39

Oh no, I will probably die with Poly in the active window.

[Lancer]

That's the spirit

loinburger, WoW, thanks!

[DAVOUT]

Real old farts dont boast about.

[Bosh]

Joined up when I was a crazy disaffected anarchist in high school. Now I'm married, got a house in the suburbs and have a low-level management position. How the hell did that happen?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Bosh
Joined up when I was a crazy disaffected anarchist in high school. Now I'm married, got a house in the suburbs and have a low-level management position. How the hell did that happen?

So since you are opposite of what you were, does that make you an Archist?

ACK!

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Tuberski


So since you are opposite of what you were, does that make you an Archist?

ACK!

I'm definately an oppressive archist.



At least my cats think so.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Bosh


I'm definately an oppressive archist.



At least my cats think so.

My cats think I'm a vending machine.

Everytime the meow constantly, I feed them.

Fat ****ers.

ACK!

[Japher]

This place makes you older!!!!!!!!?

I'm suing, I saw no warning label!

[BlackCat]

Your friend is right - I'm born dec 31 59 and is 46 - that makes you 48. Sorry.

[Kassiopeia]

Joined almost exactly five years ago, when I was 14, now I'm 19.

[Harovan]

I was born in January '58. That makes me what, 48? I don't know.

[LordShiva]

Joined when I was 16 as "SirShiva." Put in a request to be renamed to "Shiva," it was done, but there already was one so my password stopped working for both SirShiva and Shiva. Gave up.

Rejoined in 2003 (?) at 20, now 23.

Edit: Make that 2002 at 19

[Japher]

I thought I was 30 until a month or two ago... turns out I'm 31.

I was born in November.