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Elegant Victorian Lady
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Toryism! Abominable toryism!

That one youth really should have heeded the advice of her Royal Majesty and simply stayed down.

What's that? But I have only just managed to clear the spiders out of the steam pressure-to-sustained charge ratio meter! All this time spent inventing and maintaining frankly unlikely technologies so that I might be able to communicate with the ferociously advanced intellects of a future time, and now it is over,

Ah! For once my expertise in the navigation of the conceptual localities represented in the electrically-motivated ether becomes significant! Do not trouble yourselves- I will soon determine this person's identity using the oracular powers of the 'Google'.
Why, it appears to be nothing more than a Harlequin!

Though I have never met your father, he sounds like an abominable brute, if you will forgive me my unsolicited opinion. No child should be treated so, even if they are so unfortunate to be clapped with the Russet Curse. Were I not a married woman sir, I would offer you a consoling embrace, so deeply has your sad

Hum! Much of what is written above is utterly outside my understanding, but based upon simple caution, it is best I think that I…

Perhaps the words most deserving of being banned from use are 'Lindsay Lohan'. I for one have had my fill of them. To what use is this sad creature afforded such interminable attention? Are there no nunneries about in America, or a suitably stern governess, (ideally Irish) who might serve to temper her conduct?

(The poor doctor is hard of hearing. I shall contrive to make myself heard.)
SIR, I MUST INFORM YOU THAT THE TERM CAN APPLY TO THAT PART OF A CASK, BE IT FILLED WITH ALE, GUNPOWDER OR VEGETABLE OIL, WHERE A SPIGOT IS FIXED. IT SEES REGULAR USAGE, AT LEAST IN MY ERA, AMONG GROCERS AND ONE MIGHT ASSUME OTHER VENDORS

When desire is thwarted, it dwindles to indifference or kindles into hate. And I suspect that all misogny is likely love curdled by sad neglect.

A little bird whispered in my ear that the estimable Mr. Shatner is in consideration as Governor-General of Canada. Pure porridge, like as not.

The man's adjectives run the gamut!

The term refers to the part of a cask where the spigot is placed, and also can be used as a metaphor indicating destitution. If there are any other meanings, I certainly do not know them!

A 'tophus' is, I believe, a deposit of dense organic matter which accumlates around a joint afflicted by the gout. If I recall my tutor correctly, the word travels to us unchanged from the Latin. I can only suppose that a 'topher' would be one so afflicted, or perhaps a surgeon trained in the extraction of such

Dear Mr. Teadoust,
Likely that you were at a club, where what you smelled was snuff, the effluence of cigars and partly justified self-importance. Or perhaps you stood close to the Thames. Could that be it? For goodness sake sir, do not mistake the awful stench of the fetid Thames for the aroma which clings to the

Though I am not that familiar with the gentleman, a person of my acquaintance has repeatedly complained of his work using terms far too personal and indelicate for me to repeat here. I recall he considered Mr. L.'s work on 'Ultimates' to be simply abominable.

Heavens, even the quotations are frightfully exciting!

The poor addict tastes the vapours of absinthe still redolant from the day before. The presence of a stern, matronly mate would soon provide him with salutary correction, I am certain.

Ah, Mr. Guido. Though much of the verbiage you employ is confounding, I think I perceive, however dimly, the meaning that lies beyond. Perhaps, over-fond as you clearly seem to be of the 'vino' and unaware of the high standards rigorously upheld in the establishment you currently frequent, you have assumed that the

Ever more water and less wine, I would say…