POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Planet Earth : Re: Planet Earth Server Time
7 Aug 2024 11:23:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet Earth  
From: Larry Hudson
Date: 5 Jun 2006 22:13:42
Message: <4484e4d6$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
> 
> Larry Hudson wrote:
> 
>  >      --=- Larry -=-               The Old Curmudgeon
> 
> Hmm, according to my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current 
> English, a curmudgeon seems to be something like a bear with a sore 
> head... or, to put in in German, a "Stinkstiefel" (literally, a stinking 
> boot)... we live and learn!
> 
> See you in Khyberspace!
> 
> Yadgar

Well, at least to my native-English-speaking (or -hearing) ear, it 
usually means about the same as a Grumpy Old Man.

(That was a funny movie, BTW...)     ;-)

      -=- Larry -=-
"The Old Curmudgeon" or "The Grumpy Old Man" -- take your pick.   :-)


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