Grumps, grouches, cranks and killjoys

[snazzzybird]

--- "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> wrote:
> There are other terms: grump, grouch, crank, killjoy; 
> but none of them have that lovely sweet, crumbly coffee-cake with 
> bitter almond (cyanide) flavor that curmudgeon does. A curmudgeon
> is someone you might see in the funny papers. There is no 
> equivalent female term. That's what I meant by getting stuck 
> with "b*tch."

This subject line gave me a vivid vision of Cher belting 
out "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"!  I had to take a second look to 
see if it was a filk.

--snazzzybird, who if anything would probably be the resident "why 
can't we just get along" Pollyanna.