"Well Met" - What! It's combat?

**James Hood** · 24th March 16, 01:28 PM

In this opinion, Tarheel should go on using, "Well met," as a greeting...

...because this forum's newbies section could get a bit tedious if every poster used precisely the same greeting.

Let local linguistics and slang prevail, it oft provides "literal-lite" cud for us to e-chew in the forums.

**Tarheel** · 24th March 16, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by James Hood

In this opinion, Tarheel should go on using, "Well met," as a greeting...
Let local linguistics and slang prevail, it oft provides "literal-lite" cud for us to e-chew in the forums.

Thank you for that. I quit having hurt feelings over simple things after Basic training (US Army 1970's). This "fatted cow" has been led to slaughter before and survived. Ha-Ha on the cud to e-chew on (great analogy).

**kiltedcontractor** · 24th March 16, 06:15 PM

Tarheel, if you don't continue to use "well met" this forum will not be normal. It is your thing.....we need you to stick to it.

**Tarheel** · 24th March 16, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by kiltedcontractor

Tarheel, if you don't continue to use "well met" this forum will not be normal. It is your thing.....we need you to stick to it.

Thank you. My wife says I should stand in the background some times, shut up and listen more. My dad says I was born with a mouth that fits my size 11 shoe perfectly.

Still giving the issue some thought.

**Hexdef101** · 24th March 16, 08:26 PM

Of course I believe the follow up usually is "Have at Thee"

sorry,I just had to say that.

**Dale-of-Cedars** · 24th March 16, 08:51 PM

"Ill Met In Lankhmar" for fans of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser...

**MacGumerait** · 25th March 16, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Tarheel

My dad says I was born with a mouth that fits my size 11 shoe perfectly.

Still giving the issue some thought.

Haaa ! Well put Tarheel .

Reminds me of what my grandfather used to tell me .... " Michael , your foot belongs on the ground , not in your mouth " .

**tripleblessed** · 25th March 16, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by Tarheel

My dad says I was born with a mouth that fits my size 11 shoe perfectly.

I still recall the laughter of our equipment guy when all 5'4", 110 lbs. of me informed him I needed size 12 (US) football
cleats. The jokes died down after a while, but readers here will have noted that both my feet still fit quite comfortably in
this mouth.

**tripleblessed** · 25th March 16, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by neloon

As tripleblessed implies, "well met" is just a usage that has become obsolete in the UK although, even in Shakespeare's day, it would not have been used with somebody one had not previously met. Its sense would have been "I'm glad I bumped into you because..." (Or the reverse - "Ill met by moonlight, Titania" from "Midsummer Night's Dream"!)
The "Fall" is another US usage strange to our ears but was normal in the UK 400 years ago. Likewise the very archaic (except in Scots) "gotten" and so on.
Alan

Alan, as you note, this usage is normally for folk you know and are happy to see: "Well met, you got my sixty bucks?
I just had a flat." But I've also heard it serve to greet strangers: "Well met, kind of you to stop, as my spare's also flat,
and it's six miles to town. Now if my cousin might be in town so as to get my sixty bucks and a ride back out here with
something to get me down the road........"

**Tarheel** · 27th March 16, 04:57 AM

Someone unfamiliar with kilting is browsing for information. The posts of any subject (sporrans as an example) are many and varied. The person decides to join, as we have become "the source to rely on for all things kilted". They are greeted by a world wide host of personalities, opinions and experiences.
I am one of those greetings. Imagine the new person's surprise (or confusion) that a member (not knowing my gender, age or background) from Oxford, Mississippi begins with, "Well met."

I've had a week to think through this issue. Greeting new members with well met will be as easy as having long hair (kept in a ponytail as I have for 40 plus years) among a room full of "crew cuts". It is a quirk, not meant to offend others, but as natural as my ready and hardy laughter. I can only remain, sincerely, Bobby Ingram, and true to my myself.