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[[gorn]] ''adj.'': Gone. Reference to a [[Wikipedia:Monty Python|Monty Python]] sketch in which Graham Chapman's character names various words and describes them as either "lovely and woody" or "awful and tinny". Always spoken with a pronounced upper-middle-class British accent. (Not to be confused with The [[Wikipedia:Gorn|Gorn]], an alien race with a very low makeup budget.)
[[Category:Glossary]][[gorn]] ''adj.'': Gone. Reference to a [[Wikipedia:Monty Python|Monty Python]] sketch in which Graham Chapman's character says various words and describes them as either "lovely and woody" or "awful and tinny". "Gorn", the first, was "lovely and woody"; much later, "caribou" was outside nibbling on the croquet hoops. After shooting the caribou with a rifle which he happened to have under his comfy chair, Chapman's character remarks "Caribou gorn."
==Notes==
* Always spoken with a pronounced upper-middle-class British accent
* Not to be confused with The [[Wikipedia:Gorn|Gorn]], an alien race with a very low makeup budget

Latest revision as of 00:45, 14 December 2005

gorn adj.: Gone. Reference to a Monty Python sketch in which Graham Chapman's character says various words and describes them as either "lovely and woody" or "awful and tinny". "Gorn", the first, was "lovely and woody"; much later, "caribou" was outside nibbling on the croquet hoops. After shooting the caribou with a rifle which he happened to have under his comfy chair, Chapman's character remarks "Caribou gorn."

Notes

  • Always spoken with a pronounced upper-middle-class British accent
  • Not to be confused with The Gorn, an alien race with a very low makeup budget