caddyman: (You there)
caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2008-03-06 11:18 am

Tolkein rubbish (it's all the late Gary Gygax' fault)

Anyway, it turns out that Zinfandel is a grape, not an elf from the First Age of Middle Earth. This is most distressing and next time I play D&D or anything remotely similar, it will be as an elf called by that name and with an alcohol problem.

Can elves be alcoholics?

I rather see him in sitting with a group of other unfortunates in a little sylvan dell with a name that sounds suitably Welsh: Cyn’hoel, or suchlike.

Zinfandel: My name is Zinfandel and I am an alcoholic.
Omnes: Hello, Zinfandel!
Zinfandel: It will be 2,853 years, 4 months, 6 days and 11 hours since my last drink, come midnight next Throckmorton’s Eve.
Omnes: *applause*
Matteus Rosé (a fat friar): Can elves actually become alcoholic?
Zinfandel: Indeed. I assure you that…
Matteus Rosé: In fact, I thought Zinfandel was a grape. What sort of name is that for anybody?
Zinfandel: It was in the last year of the war against the Dark Lord himself that I succumbed. Too many of my kin were slain in that final battle on the fields of…
Matteus Rosé: Are you sure you’re not a grape? Your nose is red enough.
Zinfandel: Now look here, Lardy…
Matteus Rosé: Ooh, lardy-dah. Listen to the pixie with his airs and graces.
Omnes: FIGHT!
Off stage: I'll have a large one!

And now I come to think of it, why is it called a “Chap Stick” if men and women can use it? Isn’t that a bit misleading?

[identity profile] pauln.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Cyn'hoel..

Pronounced "'Kin'ell"?

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
...maybe...

What's your point? ;-p

[identity profile] keith-london.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Why not rebrand the feminine version to Chapette Stick?

[identity profile] littleonionz.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
le chuckle.

[identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
You're right, I never thought of that, we must stop the chapstick OUTRAGE! Who'sthe Minister for Cosmetics, I need to write a letter ?

[identity profile] pauln.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hazel
c/o Watership Down
Hampshire

[identity profile] ladkyis.livejournal.com 2008-03-06 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
is that as in

Fu Cyn hoel?