# Died alone in a hotel room? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272 "2006-12-22T21:23:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/41 "2006-12-25T02:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] May all your catamites be callipygous; or better yet, super-callipygous. [/QUOTE] Indeed, but with the baggy pants the prospective catamites are wearing these days, who can tell?! Mind you, though, at this point in my famine (not that there ever WAS a feast), I’d probably settle for, oh, just breathing–baggy pants or not. Oh, and won’t axe-murder me. Yeah, it’s that bad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/42 "2006-12-25T02:36:30Z")
Aaaaaand the Great Doper Gay Conspiracy is well on our way to our ultimate goal of being able to hijack ANY thread on the boards into a Big Gay Flirt Thread! Good work, girlfriends! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/43 "2006-12-25T03:23:58Z")
Super-fragile callipygous extrovert, ferocious: Even though the puns in it are simply quite atrocious If you need a catamite, Matt’s truly quite precocious He may make a fricative that becomes very plocious Anyone want to take the second verse? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/44 "2006-12-25T04:20:01Z")
Well, as soon as I read “super-calllipygous”, I knew there was a Mary joke in there somewhere. Whether Poppins, Martin, Magdalene or Hartman… ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/45 "2006-12-25T05:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Aaaaaand the Great Doper Gay Conspiracy is well on our way to our ultimate goal of being able to hijack ANY thread on the boards into a Big Gay Flirt Thread! Good work, girlfriends! [/QUOTE] Yes, my gah-gah-for-reaheads sister, victory is imminent! Hugs, kisses, and tears all around. Now, hand me a tissue, please; my mascara is running. Oh, and, **Polycarp** , “plocious”? Now the folks at Google, [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), and [m-w.com](http://m-w.com) think I’m a complete dolt. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/46 "2006-12-25T05:43:12Z")
> [@](#): > > The notorious wallpaper, made famous in Wilde’s deathbed quip, has been changed, however. They had to tear it down. Once a wallpaper’s killed a man, it gets a taste for human blood and never goes back. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/47 "2006-12-25T11:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=Li’l Pluck] Oh, and, **Polycarp** , “plocious”? Now the folks at Google, [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), and [m-w.com](http://m-w.com) think I’m a complete dolt. 😉 [/QUOTE] He made it up, punning on “plosive”, another term for stop (a phoneme made by interrupting the flow of air, such as p, t, k, g, d, or b. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/48 "2006-12-25T13:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=Li’l Pluck] Mind you, though, at this point in my famine (not that there ever WAS a feast), I’d probably settle for, oh, just breathing–baggy pants or not. Oh, and won’t axe-murder me. [/QUOTE] I’m breathing. Beyond that I make no promises. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/49 "2006-12-25T15:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Super-fragile callipygous extrovert, ferocious: Even though the puns in it are simply quite atrocious If you need a catamite, Matt’s truly quite precocious He may make a fricative that becomes very plocious Anyone want to take the second verse? 🙂 [/QUOTE] [Bad Dick Van Dyke Cockney accent] Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Because I hated leather chaps When I was just a lad Me ‘master’ gave me dick a tweak And told me I was bad But then one day I learned a word That saved me aching dick The biggest word I ever heard And it might help your prick! [/Bad Dick Van Dyke Cockney accent] ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/50 "2006-12-26T07:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m breathing. Beyond that I make no promises. [/QUOTE] Now, see, I can live with that kind of honesty! (So, do I have to hide my axes when you come over, or what?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272/51 "2006-12-26T07:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] He made it up, punning on “plosive”, another term for stop (a phoneme made by interrupting the flow of air, such as p, t, k, g, d, or b. [/QUOTE] I just scanned the Wiki article on this subject, and…oy! What’s that line from “Yentl”? Oh, yeah: The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. ☹😉 Fighting ignorance, indeed! Thank you! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/died-alone-in-a-hotel-room/385272.md?page=2)