The perils of "search & replace" in documentation.

No, it's a portmanteau of "vice-versa", "arse-about-face", etc, etc, with a nod to "topsy-turvy". I don't think I invented it: it feels like ordinary BrE to me.

Methinks it to be quite old. Likely an old rancher raising horses came up with it, and it worked it's way into that locale's disciplinarian minded culture, like a schoolroom in a child's early years, and flowered into what we have today.

It certainly had nothing to do with the basketball game we used to play (horse).

What an impressive posting.

I'm impressed. That's more perceptive than I expected from you.

Er... No. OK, so you've perceived something, but you haven't understood it. Deduct 3 "impressed" points from the "I'm impressed", above.

Nothing self-congratulary there (bear in mind that I'm not mindlessly trolling, so I don't look for "wins"). A statement of fact is not necessarily "self-congratulatory"; do you see any bragging in my statement? I simply stated a fact, and pointed to evidence which confirms the fact. I mentioned how trolls are treated here, in a group where language usage is everything.

I'm a professional writer of thirty years standing. We all feel the same about bookpro. That should be explanation enough. God only knows what BS she's been feeding you, but I would suggest that you take it with a couple of kilos of salt.

Don't be silly. Number Six is a number.

Welcome to alt.usage.english.

Don't confuse them, Mark.

Welcome to Ark.Unfortunately, you are also allowed.

Someone noticed.

Classic non sequitur.

-- Chris McG. Harming humanity since 1951. "Uh-oh. Looners." -- Darla

As if a nobody like Mark Wallace could confuse a sheep. Although he gets confused trying to discover which is his ass and which is a hole in the ground.

-- Chris McG. Harming humanity since 1951. "Uh-oh. Looners." -- Darla

So is that. What are you trying to say?

But, in point of fact, what I posted was not a non sequitur; it was an honest, sarcastic comment.

Whatserface@bookpro's response to my reply to her vicious, abrasive, scathing posting was, in fact, /incredibly/ unimpressive.

But she's bookpro. It probably took her a week to write her initial posting, so any rapid response from her was bound to be unimpressive.

No clu>Don't confuse them, Mark.

You want he should INfuse them? With what? And I'm sure there is such a PROfusion that an INfusion would be unfeasible.

Not to mention (although I shall), when they congregate, merely to conform to some contemperaneous congratulatory congress of contention, it leaves a convoluted contrail of confounded cohorts at this fine concourse.

Still, I profess to proliferating a progression of profligate, prohibitive pronouncements of my own, so it's no skin off my proboscis, as it were.

Mark Edwards

Number Seven was a donkey.

"Chris McGonnell" wrote

Why are you posting this to ark, McGonnell?

--oTTo--

"Mark Edwards" wrote

Please -- this is a family newsgroup, and children could be reading what you write.

--oTTo--

Well, it did allow him to have the last word. For a while.

BW

Well, it's pretty obvious that your only reason for posting that was to try to have the last word.

Why not say something intelligent?

Oh, sorry. Forgot you were bookpro.

Nice web-site, BTW.

Not to worry; it was hardly visible.