Barenaked Caving Calendar 2013 - ready to pre-order!

[scurve]

Maybe we should make a calendar: Cavers straddling stalagmites that look like cocks.

 

[mrodoc]

Trolling: Fish by trailing a baited line along behind a boat: "we trolled for mackerel".   That is how I have always used the term. This business of making a noun troll into a verb is sending the English language in all sorts of odd directions.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

It's fine, any noun can be verbed - Wikipedia says so ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(linguistics)#Verb_conversion_in_English

 

[Fulk]

Gadzooks, mrodoc, 'twas ever thus . . . the language changes and evolves (though I must admit I'm not entirely happy about some of the changes going on now).

 

[Roger W]

But "to troll" as used by mrodoc is surely a verb.  So if a troll is someone who dangles bait (in the form of a provocative post) behind his boat, so to speak, isn't this a case of a verb being nouned rather than a noun being verbed?

"To troll" meaning to sit under a bridge and wait for a suitable-sized billy goat to cross over would be a better example of a noun being verbed.

Still think the best example of a troll that I've seen was the one in Moria in the Lord of the Rings. (Though - to keep on topic - I can't remember whether it was naked or not.)

 

[graham]

(Though - to keep on topic - I can't remember whether it was naked or not.)

I've just spent the last ten minutes looking for a screen cap of this & cannot find one.

 

[shotlighter]

Trolling: Fish by trailing a baited line along behind a boat: "we trolled for mackerel".   That is how I have always used the term. This business of making a noun troll into a verb is sending the English language in all sorts of odd directions.

What about the polari meanining of trolling - to mince, or cruise for (gay) sex. I read about it in "Round the Horn Weekly" which I buy for the "I spy" section - honest
(with thanks to Julian & Sandy)

 

[bograt]

My most recent reference to trolls is one called Detritus, He was one that "made good" but his predecessors had problems with goats.

 

[Burt]

Didn't do the WI of Rylstone any harm with this type of British titilation/humour....They achieved world wide recognition,had a film made about them, a touring stage show based on their story.....and raised shed loads of money for cancer charities.....now where are those Belgium buns

...and that's probably why sales are not so good - naked calendars are victims of their own success. Young farmers, vet students, rugby teams, there's loads of 'em about.

 

[cap n chris]

Very probably, Burt. That, plus the fact that it's not a new idea - it's long since lost any novelty factor some fourteen years on.

 

[Hydra]

Perhaps I have mis-marketed this.

There is some humour involved with some of the photos for sure but the main aim is for people to have a calendar with nice quality photos of some of the best caves in the UK. The nudity is for fun, but I think also used in a way that compliments the cave.

It seems that I can't market this any other way than to show a few more photos.


The sales are doing pretty well now.

 

[ChrisJC]

I still cannot make up my mind.  Can we see some more pictures please?

+1 Tony! 

Anyway, the idea of attractive people with their kit off always ticks my boxes, even 14 years after Calendar Girls. So I have ordered one.
It will save the complication of re-using the SUSS 2008 one again because the days are wrong.

Chris.

 

[Joe90]

How long should delivery take?

 

[rhychydwr1]

Still cannot make up my mind.  Can we have some close ups please?

 

[Hydra]

Hi guys.

The calendars are now in stock. Please allow up to four working days for delivery. Any orders made today or over the weekend will be posted on Monday.

No more photos, sorry.

 

[ChrisJC]

Can't wait for mine! 

Chris.