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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on August 20, 2007, 11:16:56 PM

Title: Glamping.
Post by: Roger Kettle on August 20, 2007, 11:16:56 PM

I take great pleasure in introducing this new word to you. It comes from our friends across the Atlantic and is a contraction of "glamourous camping". It means, basically, that a butler sets up your tent in the wilderness somewhere and a chef cooks your meals and a maid then tidies up. There are, of course, state-of-the-art portable bathrooms supplied.
There must be several, similarly wonderful names to be made up. Let me offer you "glagering", where a butler arrives at the bench of your choice and offers you a glamourous lager. I'm sure there's more...

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 20, 2007, 11:25:18 PM

I have always enjoyed sending people thank-you cards when they have helped me out. I call it Wonderful Thanking.

I'll delete this post later.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: The Peepmaster on August 20, 2007, 11:32:14 PM

I suppose if I took a bird on holiday somewhere special, and there was champagne to hand etc, we could have "glissing".

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 20, 2007, 11:39:24 PM

French jigging with hand bell.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 20, 2007, 11:41:36 PM

I just love how we take Roger's perfectly respectable topics and drag them down into the gutter within a few posts.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 21, 2007, 12:01:58 AM

You started it!

Yortit!

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 21, 2007, 12:03:38 AM

Not once I've deleted that post.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 21, 2007, 12:25:00 AM

Quote from: Mince on August 21, 2007, 12:03:38 AM

Not once I've deleted that post.

You deloster, you!

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 21, 2007, 12:27:04 AM

I've always been a shirer.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Malc on August 21, 2007, 12:20:57 PM

Snirk!

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 21, 2007, 12:23:18 PM

But getting back to the spirit of Roger's original post, I think this school term I shall indulge in glutoring and glarking essays.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Malc on August 21, 2007, 12:23:46 PM

That's a cross between a snigger and a smirk. It's my own invention.
But you can use it wisely. Or Usely as I call it.

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Mince on August 21, 2007, 12:25:37 PM

Is "usely" a verb or an adverb?

Title: Re: Glamping.
Post by: Malc on August 21, 2007, 12:27:08 PM

I'm not ignoring you, Mince, you posted just a sec before I did.

Now I'm deliberately ignoring you. Or delignoring, as the OED will soon have it.