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July 9, 2008
CoX - Unappreciated
Was on a large PUG the other evening and we got a police band mission -- "Stop Archon Roget and his bodyguards."
Quoth my character, "Archon Roget -- he's the wordy one, isn't he?"
Beat. Beat. I'm waiting for the LOLs.
"I dunno - we'll have to see," someone finally said.
Man, a line like that would get dice thrown at me at a tabletop game. I know -- it has.
Posted by Dave at July 9, 2008 3:16 PM
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Posted on July 9, 2008 6:02 PM
*** Dave said:
Actually -- yes, it was.
Posted on July 9, 2008 10:51 PM
*** Dave said:
Actually, it never occurred to me that someone in these newfangled times would never have heard of Roget (as opposed to "http://thesaurus.com").
Posted on July 9, 2008 11:13 PM
Avocet said:
Maybe you should have found another way to say it...
Posted on July 10, 2008 12:26 AM
Artillery MKV said:
Yeah, maybe you could have said: "Hey! There's this word-book thing called a 'thesaurus,' and the most famous version of it was compiled by a guy with the last name Roget, so that'd make this guy really wordy, huh?"
I would have loved the joke, Dave, but I might have been forced to silence you in the global, at least temporarily, to keep to infection from spreading . . .
(Actually, puns are one of my secret indulgences.)
Posted on July 10, 2008 6:52 AM
*** Dave said:
I fear I am a disruptive breaking-the-dramatic-moment kind of guy at tabletop games in that way. Even the ones I'm running. :-)
Maybe better would have been. "Archon Roget? That reminds me of something, but I can't think of the exact word ..."
Nah.
Posted on July 10, 2008 9:05 AM
Avocet said:
"Hey, do you think he'll autograph my copy?"
"Is his full title 'Archon Roget, the Saurus'?"
"There's a word for guys like him..."
Posted on July 10, 2008 10:48 AM
*** Dave said:
I particularly like the last one, Avo.
Posted on July 10, 2008 2:52 PM
gene said:
Maybe this works better over voice than via text. My major in college was comparative literature and I didn't get the joke immediately, either.
Posted on July 11, 2008 1:38 PM
*** Dave said:
That's always a possibility. Certainly not every joke I make is a winner. *cough*
Posted on July 11, 2008 1:56 PM