[manchestermike]

[corblimeylimey]

You havin' a loaf? he's havin' a loaf!

[BK83]

corblimeylimey said:

You havin' a loaf? he's havin' a loaf!

haha well done CBL! RG is a genius!!

[tadghostal]

OK, bun fight is obviously a UK thing. Please, for myself and all the rest of us over here in the US that are wondering--would somebody answer: "What the heck does bun-fight mean?!"

Kinda sounds kinky if you ask me.

[mcnuts]

Bum Fight?

[corblimeylimey]

A quick google and....

BUN FIGHT

[Q] From Vivienne Mawson: “I can’t find the origin of the phrase bun fight, though I suspect P G Wodehouse might be responsible. Could you help, please?”

P G Wodehouse has been responsible for several things, most notably the best comic writing in English, but we’re fairly sure he didn’t invent this one. Who did is lost in the anonymity of slang history, but it seems to have first appeared in the late nineteenth century, a bit early for Wodehouse.

If it sounds to you like a Victorian children’s nursery at teatime, that surely must be the original allusion behind it. Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and — this being a British expression — crumpets. Two similar expressions are known from the middle of the nineteenth century: crumpet-scramble and muffin-worry; these haven’t survived.

Interestingly, some of the early uses of bun-fight (these days, also often bunfight) borrowed the idea of afternoon tea in the nursery but left out the fighting: it could refer to the most decorous of engagements, such as those one was invited to by elderly aunts of the Wodehousian persuasion, at which squabbling over food was inconceivable. Then, as now, a bun-fight could more generally be any occasion at which food was served, it often being a sarcastic term describing rather formal ones for which guests had to dress up. In 1994, a newspaper report told of a British MP who turned up improperly dressed (in a lounge suit) at an engagement that was described as the “annual bunfight of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, at which black tie and decorations are de rigueur”.

Another sense of bun-fight, also still with us, borrowed the fight sense but left out the food. Often this refers to a heated altercation, but one that the describing observer feels is of no importance, rather like the nursery squabble that started the expression off.

World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2007.

[corblimeylimey]

Maybe we should bring back muffin-worry.

[manchestermike]

[dmandpenfold]

that's a fantastic turn of phrase and quite possibly the most beautiful words in the English language, although Tolkien would disagree, i think he preferred 'cellar-door'..

[dmandpenfold]

'muffin-worry' that is not 'bun fight'

[corblimeylimey]

dmandpenfold said:

'muffin-worry' that is not 'bun fight'

The text says

"Two similar expressions are known from the middle of the nineteenth century: crumpet-scramble and muffin-worry; these haven’t survived."

I say bring back crumpet-scramble too ;D

[dmandpenfold]

well not for long, i'm making it a point to use 'muffin-worry' at least once a day...it's coming back, right i'm off to use it on my wife ;D ;D

[corblimeylimey]

dmandpenfold said:

well not for long, i'm making it a point to use 'muffin-worry' at least once a day...it's coming back, right i'm off to use it on my wife ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D ;D

At the next POW release I'll shout crumpet-scramble !!!!

[dmandpenfold]

right reporting back to the forum, my wife called me, and i quote "a tw*t", however dont worry i will win her over with relentless usage of this wonderful phrase

[monkeypuzzle]

Scone scrum, biscuit bundle, muffin maul, pancake panic, yum-yum masacre, croisant carnage, fairycake fistfight, waffle war, belgian waffle bitchslap, hotcross bun hootenanny, sponge scuffle, garribaldi bodily harm, donut dogfight.......

That PG woodhouse was a pugilistic pastry chef dream....

[dmandpenfold]

LOL ;D ;D ;D

dont forget sherry trifle shenanigans

[corblimeylimey]

monkeypuzzle said:

Scone scrum, biscuit bundle, muffin maul, pancake panic, yum-yum masacre, croisant carnage, fairycake fistfight, waffle war, belgian waffle b**chslap, hotcross bun hootenanny, sponge scuffle, garribaldi bodily harm, donut dogfight.......

That PG woodhouse was a pugilistic pastry chef dream....

;D ;D ;D Brilliant ;D ;D ;D

love yum-yum masacre & fairycake fistfight

[monkeypuzzle]

dmandpenfold said:

LOL ;D ;D ;D

dont forget sherry trifle shenanigans

pavlova pugilism?

[taktheride]

this is out of control.

[dmandpenfold]

LOL ;D ;D

[corblimeylimey]

Rock cake ruckus

[dmandpenfold]

woo hoo stooooppp it, i'm crying with laughter now, cant stop laughing ;D ;D ;D

[manchestermike]

Blue Riband Battle

[dmandpenfold]

right that does it; croissant combat, battenburg brawl, toffee tussle, sushi scrap, waffle wrestle, corn beef clash, silverside skirmish, soapy wrestle....ooh wait that last one shouldnt be there....the end?? silly f*ckers

[Ågentßacardi]

This is the best thread EVER!!!! HAHAHAHA!!! ;D ;D ;D

[corblimeylimey]

dmandpenfold said:

right that does it; croissant combat, battenburg brawl, toffee tussle, sushi scrap, waffle wrestle, corn beef clash, silverside skirmish, soapy wrestle....ooh wait that last one shouldnt be there....the end?? silly f*ckers

the end? I think it is when you get to corn beef clash. ;D

Oh, hang on, HobNob Hullaboloo, Flapjack Tumult, Biscuit Bedlam, Tea Cake Clamor, Eccles Cake Brouhaha.

I probably could go on.

[monkeypuzzle]

corblimeylimey said:

dmandpenfold said:

right that does it; croissant combat, battenburg brawl, toffee tussle, sushi scrap, waffle wrestle, corn beef clash, silverside skirmish, soapy wrestle....ooh wait that last one shouldnt be there....the end?? silly f*ckers

the end? I think it is when you get to corn beef clash. ;D

I watched and educational eastern block film the other week and I am sure there was a psotion called the corn beef clash involved somewhere along the line.....

[dmandpenfold]

quaver quarrel anyone?

doughnut discord, mudcake malarky, cream cake cacophony ;D