tump

[Sallie Lemons]

What would Sylvia Path think of this?

In another direction, there was a time when one looked for TARDs (totally
awesome radical dudes), but that was a while back.

Lynne Murphy wrote:

> Here is my new favorite word:  TUMP.  I used to live with a TUMP (I
> drove, I cooked, I mowed the lawn, I proofread), and I'm glad to see
> that someone else (Wendy Cope, it seems) has noticed this interesting
> demographic group.
>
> Below is an in-context definition.  I first found the word yesterday in
> a local newspaper's interview with McGough.  (McGough is British
> Telecom's Poet in Residence.)  These are the only two instances of the
> word I've seen (both in reference to the same person, but I assure you,
> it is a needed generic term).  Am investigating whether Cope's used it
> in print.  I encourage everyone to use it in a sentence today (if you
> don't know a TUMP, you can use it in an analogy or something).
>
> Lynne Murphy
> Campaign Manager, TUMP for WOTY 2000
>
>  -----
>
> Roger McGough
> British Telecommunications
>
> MARCH 2000
>
> Greetings from this technonovice dipping his toes into the www thanks to
> BT.
> In the words of fellow poet Wendy Cope, I am a TUMP..ie, a Totally
> Useless Male Poet...one who can't drive, mend a fuse, type, or needless
> to say, use a PC. However, in the interests of poetry and our mutual
> desire for better communications, I will give it my all (or, at least
> bits of my all).
>
> ----
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Lecturer in Linguistics
> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QH
> UK
>
> phone +44-(0)1273-678844
> fax   +44-(0)1273-671320
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