Oh, come on -- "brunch" is a beautiful word!
"What's brunch?"
"It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end."
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
juliana - Mar 10, 2005 8:16:23 am PST #5897 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
-t - Mar 10, 2005 8:16:28 am PST #5898 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We sup at supper, dine at dinner, and break our fasts at breakfast. Right?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 10, 2005 8:17:12 am PST #5899 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch!"
t /Homer
juliana - Mar 10, 2005 8:19:01 am PST #5900 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
tommyrot, Webster says that lunch-the-noun was probably formed from "luncheon" in 1812 or so (luncheon is from 1652), and lunch-the-verb was cited in 1823.
Lunch has now lost all meaning. Lunchlunchlunchlunchlunch.
DXMachina - Mar 10, 2005 8:20:01 am PST #5901 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Lunch has now lost all meaning.
Say it ain't so.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2005 8:20:39 am PST #5902 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
According to M-W, lunch is short for luncheon, which is an alteration of nuncheon which is a light snack.
Not the way I eat lunch though, which is often the biggest meal of the day.
-t - Mar 10, 2005 8:24:44 am PST #5903 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
1580, nonechenche "light mid-day meal," from none "noon" + schench "drink," from O.E. scenc, from scencan "pour out." Altered by northern Eng. dial. lunch "hunk of bread or cheese" (1590), which probably is from Sp. lonja "a slice," lit. "loin." When it first appeared, luncheon meant "thick piece, hunk;" sense of "light repast between mealtimes" is from 1652, esp. in ref. to an early afternoon meal eaten by those who have a noontime dinner.
So lunch = "Pour out the noon drink and then have a hunk of bread"?
Jessica - Mar 10, 2005 8:26:43 am PST #5904 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When it first appeared, luncheon meant "thick piece, hunk;" sense of "light repast between mealtimes"
I.e., "nooner."?
Trudy Booth - Mar 10, 2005 8:28:53 am PST #5905 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ozzy Osbourne on how he regrets putting his family on display in a reality TV show: "Since filming started [on MTV's 'The Osbournes'], my wife has had cancer, my two kids became junkies, I went back to booze and smoking pot, and then I died twice in a bike accident. Life's not all about money."
Right. MTV is the cause of all of that, Oz. t rolls eyes
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2005 8:29:11 am PST #5906 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I.e., "nooner."?
Stop that.