Comments | auggiewren: Pomp Withou

auggiewren

Pomp Withou

Mar 02, 2008 12:39

The following was recently written by former featherweight boxing champion, Barry McGuigan*:

That's how poor a condition Tyson was in. Tyson lost in the sixth to an opponent who would not have got near him in his pomp. His pomp was 20 years ago. Frightening. He is as big as a house, old and fat.

Pomp --meaning "magnificence. -- What a wonderful word ( Read more... )

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el_jefe59 March 2 2008, 18:59:48 UTC

It's one of those words like olio (and oleo).

More Than a Spread. auggiewren March 3 2008, 01:29:41 UTC

Olio was popularized in the 1939 version of WIZARD OF OZ.

Re: More Than a Spread. el_jefe59 March 3 2008, 03:03:44 UTC

O-LI-o O-o

Ding Dong auggiewren March 3 2008, 03:06:27 UTC

She's bread.....You toasted her.

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anonymous March 3 2008, 02:34:39 UTC

Agreed. Pomp deserves a unique identity beyond the boundaries of circumstance. Your post was pomp.