dykes

[John McBride]

For some reason it won’t let me post on the previous thread. But GKC used dykes to mean dirt walls:

 

He bent them back with spear and spade,
With desperate dyke and wall,
With foemen leaning on his shield
And roaring on him when he reeled;
And no help came at all.

[Guy Farrish]

Nah he didn’t – the dyke is the ditch, the wall is …well the wall!

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

See? Now this is just sexist, homophobic clap-trap.

“No help came at all”?

Well, what about that desperate dyke that was helping him “bend them back”?

This fits perfectly in with that recent news item about the supposed prevalence of Viking fighting women, too…

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Patrice]

Thaddeus Blanchette wrote:

See? Now this is just sexist, homophobic clap-trap.

¿ ? … Ahem, I perfectly knew what I was doing when I wrote this title “A fight for a dyke”, but there certainly was no sexist or homophobic intention from me. Perhaps a bad taste, what we call “Gaulish” French mildly sexual jokes, as we quite often do in our games AARs. Actually, if you mention it, I had five male players in this game and two of them are a gay couple.

 

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[Thaddeus Blanchette]

I think that one flew over your head there, Patrice. 🙂 It was a joke, not an accusation. No stress! It might help to explain that I routinely deal with people who say s*** like this seriously.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Guy Farrish]

The complications of communicating in different languages via a written medium unmoderated by non verbal cues eh? Anyone remember Victor Borge’s phonetic punctuation sketch? Maybe you’re all too young – google it- we need a written emotional punctuation to tip in those non-verbal markers that undercut troublesome comments.

Now we’re all happy anyone want to try the discussion about Chesterton’s Anglo Catholic anti-semitism? Maybe not. Another forum, another day.

[John McBride]

Guy, it might be the ditch but it also might be the wall. The little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, remember?

 

: a long narrow hole that is dug in the ground to carry water : a ditch or trench

: a bank or mound of earth that is built to control water and especially to protect an area from flooding

[John McBride]

Okay, thanks.

[Not Connard Sage]

The OED should be the arbiter.

 

dyke1 (also dike)
n noun
1 an embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea. Øan earthwork serving as a boundary or defence: Offa’s Dyke.
2 a ditch or watercourse.
3 Geology an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata. Compare with sill.
n verb [often as adjective dyked] provide (land) with a dyke to prevent flooding.

ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old Norse dík, rel. to ditch.

 

and also

dyke2 (also dike)
n noun informal a lesbian.

DERIVATIVES
dykey adjective (dykier, dykiest).

ORIGIN
1940s (earlier as bulldyke): of unknown origin.

Are we all done now?

 

Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Oh, yes. Thank you.

[smokes a cigarette]

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Not Connard Sage]

We always endeavour to satisfy…

Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.

[janner]

Thaddeus Blanchette wrote:

Oh, yes. Thank you. [smokes a cigarette]

 

As long as it’s just a fag you’re smoking this time, Mac

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[Thaddeus Blanchette]

As long as it’s just a fag you’re smoking this time, Mac

Wait. Wha…?

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Mike]

ye gads this is about as gaming as TUMB.

[janner]

Mike wrote:

ye gads this is about as gaming as TUMB.

A fag – you know, a cigarette in English slang 

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[Mike]

Right, due to lack of gaming talk and potential oddness I have locked this topic.

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