Scottish Elises

I'm looking to buy a new laptop and so have been reading some customer reviews. For a laugh I went to look at the reviews for a gaming laptop (not something I would buy). I'm sure gamers are not the worst, but this is pretty poor by any standards:

totaly love the m17x. Im at a desk all day long So when I get home I dont want to be near a desk. This laptop fixes all that. It hammers games into the ground Literly. Im free's me from my chains. It's Heavy the Battery life sucks, and its soild gamming power. Perfect from my needs and an its great for lan party's. If you traveling allot or on the go you might want to look The m15 or m11 becuase this thing is a monster.

It makes you wonder what this person can possibly do at a desk all day (presumably not write!). Tut, you'll like the fact that two out of three apostrophes used are incorrect (and plenty more are missing).

I don't want to know what soiled gamming power is either ....

Cheers,
Robin

Wicked innit!

robin wrote:
I don't want to know what soiled gamming power is either ....

Cheers,
Robin

I do.

I presume that your misspelling of the heading is a deliberate pun Robin?

tut

isn't, "deliberate pun," tautology Tut?

Robin/Tut/Greg

In an effort to further the levels of literacy , I include the following for your perusal:-

What is a gam?

It can be used as a noun and a verb

An old nautical term used to describe a social gathering, afloat or ashore. After a friendly hail at sea, dropping sail and anchor for a gam was an occasion for familiar commerce between two (or more) whaling or merchant vessels. A gam offered the ships' officers and crews an opportunity to share information: to discuss were they had been and where they were going ~ exchange correspondence and newspapers from distant or home ports ~ and adapt their ship's course as necessary, based upon one another's experience. Often, provisions would be shared to prepare a special repast ~ and pastimes would take place for the amusement of one and all. Especially when shipmasters' wives and families were aboard ~ gams were sought to break up the monotony of a long voyage.

I can only venture that the "soiled" version of gamming would be commensurate with the time these old sea dogs had been at sea without bathing?

Accordingly, a gam ashore would be a similar experience ~ and an entertaining and enlightening time for old salts and landlubbers alike.

This very forum would be the electronic equivalent of gamming


I seem to remember a less savoury use of the word from the days of my youth.
Gam was used as a noun and a verb in the context of oral s*x

A gam (gammy)
To gam

Tut, you're correct - it was a play on "It hammers games into the ground Literly".

Iain, thanks for the gam explanation, though the more slang use combined with soil[e]d brings some unpleasant images to mind

I read something similar re: ships meeting at sea - when you're in the doldrums ships are drawn together by surface tension effects and so they inevitably meet!

Cheers,
Robin

Thought about that Robin as to whether the usage was the same as "true fact" or "almost unique", which both annoy me, but I concluded that many puns are used unintentionally without the user realising they are using one, hence the use of "deliberate", which is also saying the same thing twice.

tut

mmm...

The one that gets my hackles up is "Pre-planning". Misericordia illud vacuus erudio. Gam(e) on!

I have to defer on the Latin - we only did one term at school before being flung out (only the true scholars were allowed to continue, whilst we had to make do with the sciences ).

Pre-planning is a bit doppelt-gemoppelt as my mother would say

Cheers,
Robin

"doppelt-gemoppelt"

Stop it, or I will find a way of getting you banned from first word usage.

tut

Ah Robin that's very apposite, and as in backgammon doubles the double in several ways. Sehr gut beide Weisen!

wenn schon denn schon - another of my mother's favourite sayings

I was put back a year because of bloody Latin.

I moved from Stockport Grammar School after my father died, to Sir John Deanes Grammar school who had compulsory Latin, whereas I had not done any, so was demoted from second year to first.

tut

I'm sure you remember every word too