An alternative to "gentlemen"

[auld argonian]

...all right...this is starting to sound like a bad high school debate...."well...it depends on what youre definition of 'dude' is..."...we all know what "dude" means...



....okay....?

Now take it easy, I've got a beverage back here...

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[macwilkin]

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[auld argonian]

Wow..."a bad high school debate". Sounds like some of the whiny students on ratemyprofessor.com who complain about my "boring lectures".

T.

I'm gonna take a pass on that one, Todd....

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[macwilkin]

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[kilted hillbilly]

WOW! 14 pages and I still dont know what has gotten folks so worked up.

[auld argonian]

WOW! 14 pages and I still dont know what has gotten folks so worked up.

Well, my take is that Alan started out saying something like "need an alternative to the term 'gentleman" because it carries a certain connotations that some of us may not identify with"...then the connotations got dragged out and kicked around and a few said, "What's wrong with being a gentleman? I think of myself as a gentleman." So they defended that and a couple of us defended Alan's point of view and it went downhill from there....

Sort of that Caddyshack thing: the slobs versus the slobs.

Hence, the dud abides.....I found it entertaining.

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[James Hood]

There is something delightfully ironic and wryly amusing about being this writer being recommended to consult a dictionary less than ten years old...

...on a forum devoted to an ancient item of clothing and which forum characterizes itself on having deep respect for historical and cultural precedents, definitions, practices and traditions.

[robthehiker]

There is something delightfully ironic and wryly amusing about being this writer being recommended to consult a dictionary less than ten years old...

...on a forum devoted to an ancient item of clothing and which forum characterizes itself on having deep respect for historical and cultural precedents, definitions, practices and traditions.

...to define a word that originated in the 1870's and whose definition hasn't changed much in the ensuing years (Mr Lebowski's usage notwithstanding). Yes.

[opositive]

my summary of this entire thread is a a loose quote from "firelfy": i aim to be a good man because being a great man ain't half as much fun.

[Alan H]

There is something delightfully ironic and wryly amusing about being this writer being recommended to consult a dictionary less than ten years old...

...on a forum devoted to an ancient item of clothing and which forum characterizes itself on having deep respect for historical and cultural precedents, definitions, practices and traditions.

In fact a significant amount of the forum is devoted to contemporary kilts, which were more or less "invented"...or "adapted"... in the late 1990's.

You still might want to invest in that <10 year old dictionary.