Methinks: An Observation

[Angie]

clash said:

hotscotch said:

;Dmethinks that must have took you absolutely ages to do that Clash or is there an easy way to find that out

Quick and easy. I used the function looking for methinks posted in the last 999 days with maximum results of 1000, then did the same again for me thinks but set to match whole phrase. It was just a case of looking down the search results to see who'd said it.

methinks you're a very clever man [note to self - stop saying methinks, it's becoming annoying]
The word Aisleyne found 241 times in last 999 posts

[valcd1000]

Methinks quite a lot of people actually, it tends to be written more then said

[remaha]

Methinks that, prior today, I have only used the word in a strictly Shakesperean context.

Here's a sonnet that Spiral might have found useful:

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.

[Admin]

It's one of those thinigies, innint? A fonominanan, see I can fpell like fhaksphere.

[Angie]

remaha said:

Methinks that, prior today, I have only used the word in a strictly Shakesperean context.

Here's a sonnet that Spiral might have found useful:

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.

Whoooosh

[Harvestgoddess]

Iam rather shocked to see my mum is amognst those who have said it not that i have

[iluvwillmellor]

lol I always say me thinks ;D But I do live in Northampton and here we do say me duck and that ;D Or my other fav words-Womble and off the hook ;D xxx

[rudyrudyrudy]

guess who wins the biggest post signature?

[silenthill]

clash said:

How many people do you know, other than fellow Fakers, that use the word "methinks"? It's not a word I often hear but I've noticed it cropping up regularly in posts on this forum. I did a quick search and found that fifteen of us have used it. Apart from myself, they are brockolly, carrickmac, celticsky, goonkad, hotscotch, iluvwillmellor, juliejuliejulie, kama, mich007, remaha, rudyrudyrudy, SilentHill, tellurianna and xregretsromancex. Are we copying one another (consciously or subconsciously) or do we just think alike, not just in our opinions of Ash and the other housemates, but also in our choice of vocabulary. A bit of a coincidence, methought!

I've never said it, I've quoted someone who did though

[Clash]

silenthill said:

I've never said it, I've quoted someone who did though

Very good!