zarqon
Well-known member
Groar, living as he does up on the Icy Peak, is in fact -- as Chaucer rightly had it -- as colde as eny froste. However, of this mafia remains unknowing:
Not only does the Wiki list him as being as cold as a dead man's nose, but both myself and Winterbay have independently confirmed that he is in fact as cold as a hot-water bag in the morning. Cold as the cloyster'd nun. Cold as Diana's Crescent.
NOTE: You may stop reading here without missing anything especially pertinent to this report.
There are really quite a lot of cold similes in literature. Algernon Swinburne seems to have a particular affinity for cold, having compared it to dawn, blight of dew, rains in autumn, the cast-off garb which is as cold as clay (a simile within a simile), and fears.
Other authors have given all of the following for X in the phrase "cold as X": the grave (Arnold), a crypt (Balzac), a corpse (Bronte), cucumbers (Beaumont and Fletcher), salt (Huneker), a bubbling well (Keats), a young nun the day she is envested (Behn), graveyard stones from which the lichen's scraped (Browning), the rocks of Torneo's hoary brow (Campbell), clay (Coleridge, perhaps the inspiration for Swinburne), a fireless hearth (Massey), marble (Petrarch), the moon (Tabb), winter's sky (Symonds), loveless duty done (Anderson), a frozen chaos (Shelley), a snowball (Shakespeare... really), a star (Watson, rather ignorantly), the world's heart (Reade, equally ignorantly), the clod (De Vere), the snows of Rhodope (More), Death's chill hand (Mickle), and finally "the rank and wasting weeds, which lie in the pool’s dark bed" (Whittier).
But wait! Some authors also recognized that certain animals are cold, supplying these for X: the coiling water-snake (Holmes), a turtle (Cumberland), an earthworm (Maeterlinck), and a fish (Meredith). Let us add to this meager list Groar, so that someday those of scholarly mien may cite us around the dinner table as saying "as cold as Groar."
This may be the highest post-effort:bug-severity ratio yet seen on these forums.
Not only does the Wiki list him as being as cold as a dead man's nose, but both myself and Winterbay have independently confirmed that he is in fact as cold as a hot-water bag in the morning. Cold as the cloyster'd nun. Cold as Diana's Crescent.
NOTE: You may stop reading here without missing anything especially pertinent to this report.
There are really quite a lot of cold similes in literature. Algernon Swinburne seems to have a particular affinity for cold, having compared it to dawn, blight of dew, rains in autumn, the cast-off garb which is as cold as clay (a simile within a simile), and fears.
Other authors have given all of the following for X in the phrase "cold as X": the grave (Arnold), a crypt (Balzac), a corpse (Bronte), cucumbers (Beaumont and Fletcher), salt (Huneker), a bubbling well (Keats), a young nun the day she is envested (Behn), graveyard stones from which the lichen's scraped (Browning), the rocks of Torneo's hoary brow (Campbell), clay (Coleridge, perhaps the inspiration for Swinburne), a fireless hearth (Massey), marble (Petrarch), the moon (Tabb), winter's sky (Symonds), loveless duty done (Anderson), a frozen chaos (Shelley), a snowball (Shakespeare... really), a star (Watson, rather ignorantly), the world's heart (Reade, equally ignorantly), the clod (De Vere), the snows of Rhodope (More), Death's chill hand (Mickle), and finally "the rank and wasting weeds, which lie in the pool’s dark bed" (Whittier).
But wait! Some authors also recognized that certain animals are cold, supplying these for X: the coiling water-snake (Holmes), a turtle (Cumberland), an earthworm (Maeterlinck), and a fish (Meredith). Let us add to this meager list Groar, so that someday those of scholarly mien may cite us around the dinner table as saying "as cold as Groar."
This may be the highest post-effort:bug-severity ratio yet seen on these forums.
