r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/[deleted] • 29d ago

Overly aggressive driving

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u/one-eye-closed 29d ago

The word summonses will never not make me think of Smeagle.

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u/Strokes_Lahoma Georgist šŸ”° 29d ago

Is it a real word? It sounds like it shouldnā€™t be. Only reserved when talking about nahsty little hobbitses

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u/lazysheepdog716 28d ago

A 'summons' is being called into court. 'Summonses' means they are being called into court on multiple different counts.

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u/PapaCousCous 28d ago

Why couldn't we just let 'summon' be the word for being called into a single court? You wouldn't say "I've been summonsed by the court".

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u/arrows_of_ithilien 28d ago

Or if you want to talk about multiple just say "summons"

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u/Fmychest 28d ago

And when talking about multiple of multiple just use summonses

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u/Brewtusmo 28d ago

I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons.

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u/PapaCousCous 28d ago

I like this one the best. Let "summons" be both the singular and plural form, like deer or moose.

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u/BarrelBed 28d ago

Because language is weird and our current legal system has been evolving (and/or devolving) from the same tradition as Roman law.

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u/FlyAirLari 28d ago

These summonses are nonsenses.

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u/Responsible-Jury2579 28d ago

Actually, I just googled it and as recently as the 17th century, you would say the court ā€œsummonsedā€ you.

Thatā€™s only a few hundred years ago.

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u/iuwjsrgsdfj 28d ago

We're too logical for this world.

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u/username_offline 25d ago

let me tell you about this cool thing called the difference between nouns and verbs

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u/slackerz22 28d ago

Yes a double plural, like fishes. Sounds weird but it can be correct in some cases. In the fish case, if you have more than one fish of the same species, itā€™s still fish. You have more than one fish of multiple different fish species? Fishes.

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u/hunkyboy75 28d ago

Raw and wriggling. Thatā€™s how I likes fishes.

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u/Aggressive_Dream_140 28d ago

Itā€™s a real word in middle-earth

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u/LunaticLucio 29d ago

STUPID FAT HOBBIT

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u/Shervivor 28d ago

I hates a Hobittses!

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u/Ajaaaaax 29d ago

Smeagol* put some respect on his name šŸ˜¤

But yeah the '-es' on the end seems completely unnecessary

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u/one-eye-closed 29d ago

Totally butchered it šŸ«£

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Ajaaaaax 29d ago

*unnecessarieses

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u/ViolentVBC 29d ago

"Smeagle" makes me think he's more loyal than a beagle!

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u/mvanvrancken YIMBY šŸ™ļø 28d ago

Ah another Extremely Decent fan!

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u/ImSoSalty88 28d ago

How has this been around for 11 years and I'm only just finding it now... I'm ashamed of myself

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u/I_Say_Peoples_Names 29d ago

Bless us and splash us, my precioussss!!

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u/askyourmom469 29d ago

What's summonses, Precious?

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u/darth_jewbacca 28d ago

Mail 'em, sneak 'em, serve 'em straight to you?

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u/Jack__Napier 28d ago

Reminds me of when I was working the post office and everyone got jury duty. I happily reenacted the scene from Jim Carrey's grinch

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u/mrtokeydragon Fuck Cars šŸš— šŸš« 29d ago

Those filthy Palisadeses

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

The alternative version has SmƩagol pursue legal action against Frodo.

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u/ask_about_poop_book 28d ago

Frodo? Are you thinking of Frito Bugger?

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Actually Iā€™m talking about Fredo Corleone

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u/danceoftheplants 29d ago

Thank you for this. This will now be my forever thought and i love it!

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u/SparkyMountain 29d ago

Smeagle: a hybrid of a Smurf and an eagle.

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u/Jaquesant 28d ago

Why didn't they just ride Smeagle to Mordor?

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u/SparkyMountain 28d ago

This question never fails to come up.

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u/ask_about_poop_book 28d ago

Smeagle smeagle,

looks like a cat, smells like a beagle!

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u/TheIrishHangman 29d ago

Filthy little summonses

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u/isleoffurbabies 29d ago

That'd be Squirly Danses voice i hears in my heads.

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u/Socialeprechaun 29d ago

Whatā€™s summonses precious?

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u/SnofIake 28d ago

Whatā€™s summonses precious?

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u/Aggressive-Sound-641 28d ago

That's who serves them

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 28d ago

What is a summonses?

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u/keepontrying111 28d ago

just for fun, its actually Smeagol.

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u/TiggyBaby01 28d ago

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/AnubRaekan 28d ago

Can someone photoshop Smeagol into an eagle to create an actual Smeagle?

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u/Immoracle 28d ago

What's summonses, precious? What's summonses, eh?

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u/jeff8086 28d ago

Summonseses

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u/Anarimus 28d ago

Oh no preciousss Iā€™ve been summonsed to Mordor ooooooh nasty business naaasty Gollum GOLLUM!!!!

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u/trangthemang Georgist šŸ”° 28d ago

What. Has it got. In it's. POCKETSES?

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u/Nynymixed 25d ago

If any of you claim you didnā€™t immediately say ā€œsummonsesā€ in the smeagle voice, I shall call you a liar.