[Rutles4Ever]

Good Lord, why didn’t anyone correct the title typo in the original original thread? We look like idiots.

“Compleat”?

[jessduntno]

Good Lord, why didn’t 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...

[Overtaxed]

It's an archaic spelling.

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

[rabidralph]

It’s an alternative and more ancient spelling.