Posted on 09/19/2004 5:02:25 AM PDT by islander-11
You can't make this stuff up! Well done, Cap'n!
poltroon: a spiritless coward
(websters)
love it
Oh the fun we canhave with the name of John Faux Kerry's vessel.
Scaramouche: braggart soldier
or
Scarcely-more-than-a-mooch
And the Dems are trying to convince voters that it's Bush who has all of the money???? Laughable.
Wow! Howie is definitely on a literary tear with this one! How hilarious that JF'nK's boat is named after a "braggart soldier", and that his use of the term "Lovey" for Mrs. Heinz (what she called herself until this election disaster campaign) is revealed.
I have said before, sKerry is the gift that keeps on giving for the GOP! LOLOL!
Excuse me, let me clarify that last statement: His elderly second wife's first husband's grandfather's trust fund has been on a nautical buying spree on behalf of Gigolo John.
Oh boy.....is Howie going to get told! Probably something about naked idiots shoving things!
This guy is just a poor cousin of the Forbes', who paid for his education, thereby doing their duty to his mother.
The 35-foot Contender is a saltwater fishing boat. It has berths, but it isn't exactly a "yacht", in the sense that Carr means it.
The real eye-opener here is the 42-foot Hinckley. I didn't know Hinckley made a 42-footer. That would be like having a 42-foot Rolls Royce.
Anybody who owns a Hinckley is a Thurston-Howell-the-third type.
Remember in 1992, the constant photos of Bush the elder in his speedboat, calculated to show us he was "out of touch"?
Funny we don't see the MSM doing that with Kerry... ;-)
Mebbe Kerry thought they said "pontoon" and figured it meant something nautical?
In my state, registering with the feds does not take the place of registering with the state.
Defeat the Skerry Armada and his host of SeaDogs!!
from the OED-
poltroon
[a. F. poltron (also in 16th c. poultron) ‘a knaue, rascall..; dastard, coward; sluggard, lazie-backe, base idle fellow’ (Cotgr.), ad. It. poltrone ‘a poltron, an idle fellow, a base coward, a lazie, lither or slothfull sluggard, a lout’ (Florio 1611), whence also med.L. pultro, -onem (S. Francis c 1220, Du Cange), Sp. poltron, Pg. poltrão; f. It. poltro ‘sluggard, idle, lazie, slothfull’ (Florio) + -one: see -OON. The 16th c. spelling may have been influenced by med.L. Originally stressed pultron; poltroon (after Fr.) appears in 1664.
It. poltro adj. was app. from poltro couch, bed (Florio): cf. Milanese polter, Romagn. pultar resting-place, Venet. poltrona couch, Pg. poltrona large arm-chair, and It. poltrare, poltrire, beside poltronare, poltroneggiare ‘to play the poltron,..to loll and wallow in sloth and idlenesse, to lye lazilie in bed as a sluggard’ (Florio). Poltro, polter, pultar, are referred by Diez to OHG. polstar pillow, bolster. The fantastic conjecture of the derivation of poltron from L. pollice truncus, ‘maimed or mutilated in the thumb’ (scil. in order to shirk military service), was offered by Salmasius, and long passed current as an ‘etymology’; it prob. gave rise in the 18th c. to the use in Falconry (sense 2).]
1. A spiritless coward; a mean-spirited, worthless wretch; a craven.
Anyone that would actually name a boat after this character,.......says something about HIS own self-image. WOW what a dumb dum, advertising his own short comings
ping
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