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Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: May 03, 2003 05:05PM
There once was a mad little Fforum,
Which grew to the size of a quorum,
The members were mad,
And wrote limericks bad,
And knew nowt 'bout a sense of decorum!
OK, that was bad, bu you try finding words that rhyme with Fforum!
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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.
And political meetings, I can assure you. I have vivid memories of small belligerent elderly trade unionists saying, "Point of order, Mr Chairman, we're not quorate!"
I learned the word 'quorum' through attending meetings of various university societies. I was chair of both the role-playing soc and the newly formed Arms and Armour Society. As Arms and Armour was new, it took a while for our funding to come through, and I used to pay regular visits to the finance sabbatical, to find out what was going on. I had to be pretty persistant and the poor bloke must have started to dread the sight of me. One time I walked into his office, and he apologized before I had time to say anything !
heeheehee..quorum brings back memories from my childhood (ok, so my childhood was last week...so WHAT???)
We used to play a game called four-square, and if a play was brought into question everyone (usually 10 or more people) in the line voted on it. To announce the vote you said "I call a quorum!"
Needless to say, every play turned out to be up for contention...so we turned the rule off! But all the complicated rules involved "long" (for lower schoolers) words.
I bet I'm the only kid in town who learned advanced English from a playground game!