Cavort your Ninnies here! - Printable Version

Cavort your Ninnies here! - Printable Version

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Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Libitina - 11-29-2007

Quote:Graham, if I wrote a book on my re-enactment experiences, after the inevitable liable cases and heavy editing of sexual content, there would still be a 120,000 word exciting best seller left. However this is a short paper about how things are made and how they perform. Not quiet as exciting!

Kate, I agree with the points you made.

Tarbicus, you are a hard cavorting ninny.

Blimey sounds like I'm missing out just being in a medieval group :lol:

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - John Conyard - 11-29-2007

I think you've just called me a cavorting ninny!

Phil, I must challenge you to a duel of DBA or something.

Robert, I'm sure Quinta are still going, staging the odd event at Arbeia. But it is true many of them are members of Comitatus as well. I have no intention of stopping what I'm doing. By the sounds of it my fancy dress is better than yours! I must be a really hard cavorting ninny :lol:

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Robert Vermaat - 11-30-2007

Hi John,

Quote: I think you've just called me a cavorting ninny!

Quote:I must be a really hard cavorting ninny :lol:

Asked and answered!

Quote:By the sounds of it my fancy dress is better than yours!

Absolutely!

Comitatus - Graham Sumner - 11-30-2007

John wrote:

Quote:Graham, if I wrote a book on my re-enactment experiences, after the inevitable liable cases and heavy editing of sexual content, there would still be a 120,000 word exciting best seller left.

John I am shocked. Compared with the pagan licentious first century types I always thought you late Roman chappies were a bunch of rather dull, sober Christians! :wink:

Clearly there is more to the late Roman army than meets the eye and I look forward to reading your exploits. The Roman equivalent of a bodice ripper!

Graham.

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Hibernicus - 11-30-2007

Graham wrote: Clearly there is more to the late Roman army than meets the eye and I look forward to reading your exploits. The Roman equivalent of a bodice ripper!

Aha! Bodice Ripper! efinitely part of the defnition of cavorting ninny.. rips the bodice then skitters away, perhaps cackling, definitely tittering.. rolling eyes are optional...

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Tarbicus - 12-01-2007

Perhaps we should get these t-shirts :wink:

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Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - M. Demetrius - 12-01-2007

That might just do the trick.

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - mcbishop - 12-01-2007

Quote:Can anyone PM me with the meaning of 'cavorting ninny'? PLEASE?

No, but I'll tell you in front of everybody else. Embarrassed or something, Robert? ;-)

The OED defines the verb to cavort thusly: 'to curvet, prance, caper about, frisk, bound', whilst a ninny is, according to the same source, 'a simpleton; a fool'.

It doesn't get any more authoritative than that. I first used the expression to The Good Dr Coulston many years ago to describe some of the less reputable groups of Roman re-enactors and he now regularly re-issues it with the sort of twinkle in his eye that only he can manage.

It works a bit like insanity: if you wonder whether YOU are a cavorting ninny, or want to ask me if it is the case, then you probably aren't. If, on the other hand, you are pretty damn sure you're NOT one... then the chances are that you are indeed such a creature.

Mike Bishop

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Robert Vermaat - 12-01-2007

Quote:
Vortigern Studies:bp9q58ow Wrote:Can anyone PM me with the meaning of 'cavorting ninny'? PLEASE?
No, but I'll tell you in front of everybody else. Embarrassed or something, Robert? ;-) )

By no means Mike. :wink:
I've already been sent loads of PM and emails with a) a good explanation and b) suggestions as to who could be a CN... Big Grin

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Hibernicus - 12-12-2007

I now have a covorting ninnies AVATAR in my collection......

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - mcbishop - 12-12-2007

Quote:I now have a covorting ninnies AVATAR in my collection......

I'm sure I recognise them... it's legio I Rustica, I do believe.

Not to be confused with those who have inturned navels who secretly hang around pubs - covert inn innies.

Mike Bishop

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - philsidnell - 12-13-2007

Groan :roll:

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2007

I've moved the thread to the OT section, it was distracting too much from a serious thread. :wink:

Re: Cavort your Ninnies here! - Memmia - 12-13-2007

Is the collective term for these a 'cohort of ninnies' ? :wink: