Utterly Meaningless

Being the lackadaisical ilkling that I am, I had to google his name to find his blog and see what the heck this was about. ha! I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that you two were friends just of differing opinion about home education and regulation?

Nothing like a good hearty f**k y*u for lunch.

I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that you two were friends just of differing opinion about home education and regulation?

Me too.

Was that supposed to be funny?

It’s a pejorative, Scott. Just google the phrase “and his ilk.” You won’t find many (if any) hits where it is used the way you intended.

Apology accepted.

In the US, Scott, it’s only used one way– as an insult. Would some examples from among the first few hits at Google suffice?

TO and his ilk need to learn the R word

Luo Gan and His Ilk are Soaked in the Blood of the Chinese People

What has Senator John Edwards and his ilk wrought?

The Samosa Nazi and his ilk

You Want to Understand Fanatics? Understand Julius Rosenberg and His Ilk

These were 5 of the first 6. I skipped only an article from the Taipei Times.

It WOULD – sign me up as a roadie!

Scott actually put me in the band as a Reality-Based Back-Up Ilk, which offends me not, but ifDaryl is offended by the idea of sharing the stage with me, should I be offended by that, I wonder?

Any ilk of Scott is a friend of mine. 🙂

OK, “ilk…” Typically if you were landed Scots gentry, and you lived on the clan lands you were named after, you would be called “of that ilk” as an alternate to actually naming the ancestral land you came from, i.e. “MacDonald of Macdonald.” “Ilk” is just Scots for “the same.” The word itself isn’t pejorative; it’s the sarcastic tone of it when applied by analogy. “That fellow and his family, staff, and flunkies” would be literally true if you were a clan leader but has a certain unwholesome tang to it when it’s used to apply to your “entourage.” So to speak. Are we your entourage, Daryl? 🙂

By the way, I always thought Somerville was English, though it turns out there is a Scottish sept that is only too happy to include their English, French, and Irish cousins in their online fold. And has the loudest, most violent, most nauseating tartan EVAR, which you should hold as a point of pride. Heh.

Posse comitatus. My favorite posse!

And has the loudest, most violent, most nauseating tartan EVAR, which you should hold as a point of pride.

Link?

Happy to. Try not to look at it for very long. I have a headache. LOL

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It burns!!

$300 – $400

Might be worth it though, to be able to say “Scott and his kilt . . .”

I use the word “ilk” when I’m trying to be funny. I have much more specific words for when I’m trying to be pejorative