Good Lord, why didn’t anyone correct the title typo in the original original thread? We look like idiots.
“Compleat”?
Good Lord, why didnt anyone correct the title typo in the original original thread? We look like idiots.
Compleat?
It’s a play on the world’s most famous and often published (325+ languages) outdoor book, “The Compleat Angler”...as in let’s go fishing for these bastards...
From Answers.com
Dictionary: com·pleat (kəm-plēt') pronunciation
Compleat
adj.
1. Of or characterized by a highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency: The compleat speechwriter
comes to anonymity from Harvard Law (Israel Shenker).
2. Being an outstanding example of a kind; quintessential: Here was the compleat modern misfit: the very air appeared to poison him; his every step looked treacherous and hard won (Stephen Schiff).
And in Merriam-Webster:
* Main Entry: com·pleat
* Pronunciation: \kəm-ˈplēt\
* Function: adjective
* Etymology: archaic variant of complete in The Compleat Angler (1653) by Izaak Walton
* Date: 1526
: having all necessary or desired elements or skills : complete; also : classic, quintessential
It’s an alternative and more ancient spelling.