It's Time To Remove The Mask...Porrige...!

MLK · Post by **MLK** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 2:19 pm

Is it "Porrige" or "Porridge"? I've seen it spelled both ways. Is it possible there are two of them?

Confused in Oxford,
Meg

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 3:49 pm

StevieJ, I am shocked. Various people (yes, plural) have told me you don't like me. I guess "like" and "admire" can be two different things. Anyway, I was certainly not complaining about your writing, because I never noticed anything bad about it, but Porridge's fairwell speech was simply ingenious. If you can do that, way to go...quit your day job!

Miss Messy Kitten

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 3:54 pm

Geez, I'm gone a couple of weeks and now have no idea what y'all are talking about. Who or what was/is a "Porridge". (Other than the type enjoyed by a family of non-carnivorous bears, I mean.

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 4:14 pm

I'm quite sure it was "porridge" with a "d." I don't think that's the correct spelling, but that's how the guy spells his name.

And I think things are more fun when you <i>don't</i> know exactly who the trolls are.

mark02 · Post by **mark02** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 4:23 pm

Loren - Confidentially (in a public sort of way), yes, it was a joke. Unless it really is D.S., in which case I'll take credit for a brilliant, if inadvertant bout of sleuthing.

Phil-So I guess you're still somewhat out of commission. Otherwise you wouldn't have the time to come up with such outlandish subject matter. I imagine you at your computer, alt/tabbing (or mousing) between Kerrywhistle downloads, and C&F instigations. Jokes aside, hope you are finding ways to heal, and filling your time in the best possible ways. This thread excluded, of course.

Chuck-really happy to see your name posted here. Hope you're on the mend.

Best thoughts to all,

Mark Sackett

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 7:10 pm

Chris, please come back; hope you do.

As Porridge has said goodbye to the
'Porridge' persona, maybe it's time
for us to do so, too? We've done it
justice, I think, and we don't need
Porridge for this sort of speculation,
in fact. It is my hypothesis
that Loren is Steve Power.

Averroes, a medieval Arab philosopher,
believed that there is just one human
person who has multiple minds and bodies.
Perhaps we are all Porridge or porridge or...

By golly, I think I'm having a mystical experience!

Merry Everything to All of Us, Jim

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 7:49 pm

Of course there's always the possibility that it's Loren who doesn't exist....

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 8:26 pm

"How do you prove that we exist?... ...Maybe we don't exist..." ~Vivi (FFIX)

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 9:22 pm

No, of course I'm not leaving for good... just taking a little breather. I just don't feel like I'm learning a whole lot from this board and I'm not sure I'm contributing a whole lot. I like the familial aspect of this community, but it's pretty dysfuntional right now so I think now is a perfect time for a little vacation to the pub to listen to Tommy Peoples and Peter Molloy work their magic on the fiddle and flute, and listen to them talk, with great passion, intelligence and knowledge about the music that they, and I, love so much.
Peace,
Chris

_________________
The more you give the more there is.

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Grannymouse · Post by **Grannymouse** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 10:20 pm

The name's Betty Gault
And it's really no ones fault
I'm called grannymouse

StevePower · Post by **StevePower** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 6:09 am

On 2001-12-06 20:10, jim stone wrote:
It is my hypothesis
that Loren is Steve Power.

Makes perfect sense to me, Jim! Yin and Yang, chalk and cheese, Id and Super-ego, man and superman, Darby and Joan, Martin and Lewis and all that stuff.

And, it means I get to keep the generation whistle!

Steve

or Loren (I'm not quite sure which 'mode' I'm in today)

Post by **Dale** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 7:00 am

Unless I missed it, NO ONE has accused me of being Porridge. That REALLY makes me mad.

Dale (aka Joey Heatherton)

adrianh · Post by **adrianh** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 7:30 am

Dale,

You missed it. 4th post on the first page.

Feel privileged.

A
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StevieJ · Post by **StevieJ** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 9:08 am

On 2001-12-06 16:49, JessieK wrote:
StevieJ, I am shocked. Various people (yes, plural) have told me you don't like me.

Well now it's my turn to be gobsmacked, JessieK. I have no idea how you gathered this world-shattering piece of intelligence. All I can say is, beware of relying on secondhand information. Your sources may be unreliable - or mischievous!

To change the subject, there are a number of spellings for the dish of cooked oats known as porridge. When I was a kid my Mum would make the glutinous substance out of a box marked "Scott's Porage Oats". There was a picture on the box of a brawny man in a kilt putting the shot, or whatever the Highland Games version of that sport is. Hurling boulders?

I think that "porridge" is probably a corruption of "pottage", that mess for which Esau sold his birthright. If you repeat "pottage " quickly it starts to morph into "porridge" with a Scots trilled "r".

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 9:35 am

Author Diana Gabaldon has it spelled parritch. For a moment I thought she had designs on a macaw.