Was on a large PUG the other evening and we got a police band mission — “Stop Archon Roget and his bodyguards.”
Quoth my character, “Archon Roget — he’s the wordy one, isn’t he?”
Beat. Beat. I’m waiting for the LOLs.
“I dunno – we’ll have to see,” someone finally said.
Man, a line like that would get dice thrown at me at a tabletop game. I know — it has.
Ugh. Kids today…
This was on Freedom, wasn’t it?
Actually — yes, it was.
Actually, it never occurred to me that someone in these newfangled times would never have heard of Roget (as opposed to “http://thesaurus.com”).
Maybe you should have found another way to say it…
Yeah, maybe you could have said: “Hey! There’s this word-book thing called a ‘thesaurus,’ and the most famous version of it was compiled by a guy with the last name Roget, so that’d make this guy really wordy, huh?”
I would have loved the joke, Dave, but I might have been forced to silence you in the global, at least temporarily, to keep to infection from spreading . . .
(Actually, puns are one of my secret indulgences.)
I fear I am a disruptive breaking-the-dramatic-moment kind of guy at tabletop games in that way. Even the ones I’m running. 🙂
Maybe better would have been. “Archon Roget? That reminds me of something, but I can’t think of the exact word …”
Nah.
“Hey, do you think he’ll autograph my copy?”
“Is his full title ‘Archon Roget, the Saurus’?”
“There’s a word for guys like him…”
I particularly like the last one, Avo.
Maybe this works better over voice than via text. My major in college was comparative literature and I didn’t get the joke immediately, either.
That’s always a possibility. Certainly not every joke I make is a winner. *cough*