Tim Keck was a college junior in 1988 when he started the Onion. He's all of like 43 years old, 44 maybe. He looks more like 30 or 35. And he certainly doesn't talk or act like Ted Stevens or John McCain.
Craggy! You poor thing! I think you should not only go through the desk drawers, but find an embarrassing/incriminating item from each one, and we can play the guessing game again.
And whan that I hadde geten unto me,
By maistrie, al the soveraynetee,
And that he seyde, "Myn owene trewe wyf,
Do as thee lust the terme of al thy lyf.
You know, reading Chaucer and drinking bourbon while getting paid does sound like a pretty ideal job. Even if you have to do it in the Stranger offices. :3
Don't know what happened to my copy of Chaucer, but it had the original text on one page and a translation into English on the opposite page. It was the only way to go. That stuff's pretty unreadable otherwise.
There's English and then there's English (like texting-pothead the other day...) Personally, I think the only way to really understand (the words, I mean) Middle English is to have someone read it to you in that lovely, sing-songy way...preferably a bespectacled, floppy haired, corduroy trousers wearing English Prof who looks like Hugh Grant.
I found Chaucer a lot easier when I read it out loud. Obviously my pronunciation was off from the middle English, but reading the middle English spelling phonetically made it all sound more familiar.
@21 No joke. Having never been to the Stranger offices, I can only imagine what it smells like in there. In my mind, it's a haze of PBR and Astroglide.
When you slowly go mad and start setting up mannequins at the desks of your co-workers in their likeness so you have some "company", be sure and get the pants real snug on the Nipper replica; or deep down, you just won't buy it.
Who did you piss off?
The Wife of Bath rocks.
@ Fnarf, you let the littlest things get to you.
Thank you.