Quaff
quaff \kwof, kwaf, kwawf\
verb
1. To drink a beverage, esp. an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
transitive verb (used with object)
2. To drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily.
noun
3. An act or instance of quaffing.
4. A beverage quaffed.
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WOI - 0003: QUAFF
[ Panel 1 ]
|— A LESSON IN GENTLEMANLY BEHAVIOR —|
DAPPER PROFESSOR: To be that of the BOURGEOISIE (change to Aristocrat), one should learn the FINER QUALITIES of life.
[ Panel 2 ]
|— Knowing HOW TO QUAFF one’s drink is a skill all men should know how to do.
DRINKING GENTLEMAN: Mmm… yes, this is QUITE delectable.
[ Panel 3 ]
|— But there is a fine line between DRUNKEN peasantry and ADMIRABLE connoisseurship! —|
DRUNKEN GENTLEMAN: Ima PRUDY princess! Whos gunna to take me to the yuletide ball!?
:: In his drunken stupor he is flamboyantly prancing around in a field with a single, lonely flower (much like himself). ::
[ Panel 1 ]
|— A LESSON IN GENTLEMANLY BEHAVIOR —|
DAPPER PROFESSOR: To be that of the BOURGEOISIE (change to Aristocrat), one should learn the FINER QUALITIES of life.
[ Panel 2 ]
|— Knowing HOW TO QUAFF one’s drink is a skill all men should know how to do.
DRINKING GENTLEMAN: Mmm… yes, this is QUITE delectable.
[ Panel 3 ]
|— But there is a fine line between DRUNKEN peasantry and ADMIRABLE connoisseurship! —|
DRUNKEN GENTLEMAN: Ima PRUDY princess! Whos gunna to take me to the yuletide ball!?
:: In his drunken stupor he is flamboyantly prancing around in a field with a single, lonely flower (much like himself). ::
oh nice, he sure is “purdy”oh no, does he get a date to the ball, does he find the right dress, does he find his “prince”
I’m sure if he gets drunk enough, ANYONE will do. lol
several people have been known to achieve mind altering powers from overuse of mind altering substances.
lol, my scottish heritage could drink the irish one under the table”their can be only one” idk that sounded funny in my head
And it sounds racist to me, my laddie, what every Scotsmen gets pissed drunk and beats his wife? It’s racists like you that need a smacking! (If you want replace Scotsmen with Irishmen and replace smacking with throttling)
i can make fun of my own heritage but i never said something that bad
Revenge, good sir, is a dish best served cold. Doesn’t feel very good when someone takes something you said and completely runs it into the ground when all you were doing was saying something you thought was funny and not all racist.
You got me there my good man
Ah man … that last panel is classic & hilarious. [:
Nothing beats that mans pose. Who knows WTF he’s doing really. lol
all three of them are gentlemen of standing! each one has a hat after all. thus there are no presumptuous poor irishmen (aka peasants) in this strip
This is true, but I guess it really just depends on how you define a gentleman, are they still a gentleman if they are extremely rude to everyone and a belligerent drunk regardless of attire?
have they hat?also, my gravytar isn’t working. does my username or email need to be the same as m gravytar account?
What is your rating for the gravater? it needs to be the middle one to work… the PG13 one. if you do the youth one it wont work.And yes, they have a hat. lol
wait, it won’t display if it’s rated below the sites level?wtf?
and if they have hat, they are distinguished gentleman of leisure. tf2 taught me that
Yeah, to be honest, I don’t get it… but if I put my gravatar at PG it wont load on most websites. I really don’t understand why.TF2?
wait, there is no pg13.my gravtar loads fine on jeffbot, but not legendofbill.:sigh:
and tf2 is teamfortress 2
Well there are three ratings, pick the middle one and it should work on most sites.Ahh… I never got into Teamfortress. :/
well, i changed it from “PG” to “R”…lets see
That’s interesting. Mine is rated G, and it loads on every site…
Weird. I’m gonna chalk it up to… I don’t get WTF is going on with Gravatar, then. lol
it’s funny… I think they all look drunk.
Lol, actually, I can see that. XD
I bought your mini-comic! I think it’s a great idea, and I want to support a printed L.A.W.L.S. book! … er … my earnest enthusiasm makes me sound like a fanboy :/
Thank you man! I appreciate your support. I really hope this book is a plausible thing… its gonna cost me something like… 3grand? D: It’s all good, I don’t think of you as a fanboy, you are my comrade in comics! XD
Doesn’t bourgeois mean middle class?
Yes, but they were a class of people who like to enjoy the finer things of life all the same. They were into material items, fancy looking stuff as if they were rich. Read the Wiki on the Bourgeois culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie particularly the parts centered around English Bourgeois.”English bourgeois culture is often attacked as a sitting-room culture. Bourgeois material culture has focused on mass-produced, high-quality luxury items, though the material content of this has varied over time. The painted porcelain, machine-printed wallpaper and cotton fabrics, and Sheffield steel of the early nineteenth century have given way to luxury consumer items and contemporary conspicuous consumption. These items are often displayed wealth, rather than used wealth as in nineteenth-century working-class homes…” yadda yadda yadda
The only time I remember seeing the term “quaff” in this sense is when Snoopy, as his Ace World War I pilot character, goes to “quaff” root beers.
LOL, that’s an awesome reference! Yeah, i like weird old words like Quaff… of which NO ONE USES! My goal is to bring the back tot he English language before L33T takes over the world.
The only time I have seen quaff was in an all you can quaff tournament in Castle Crashers and let me tell you…f*ck quaffing.
It also appears in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, although in this context it’s chugging anti-depressants (nepenthe), not root beer.
LOL nice.
haha I love the word quaff. I had to learn it for the GRE and it totally stuck in my brain. Too bad it wasn’t on the test. Another good word is onomatopoeia.
Both words are great. I love words. :]
excellency radiates from this etching but all that read must understand that swift uncensored DOOM comes to thoughs that partake in the level of intoxication illestrated in the final pannel but when you get to that level you cant tell whats up from the colour purple(taken from experience)
You’ve been THAT intoxicated before? heh. Musta been quite the trip! :P
oh good sir my trip was so bawl busting freaking awesome that i want to be the only one, I must be the only one, it has been my title for many a good century and none shall take of itOR ELSE