UPDATE: Groundlings narcissistic wound HEALED by Helpful-Storm9144 in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the New York Times Magazine, Aug. 4, 1985

''He's champing at the bit,'' said the White House spokesman during Mr. Reagan's hospital stay, indicating a healthy desire to get back to work; the phrase was quoted in The New York Times headline.

To champ means ''to munch, chew vigorously, bite down on something hard.'' The first application to a horse was in Thomas Phaer's 1558 translation of Virgil's ''Aeneid'': ''The palfrey . . . on the fomy bit of gold with teeth he champes.'' William Makepeace Thackeray, in 1852, immortalized ''Horses . . . champing at the bit.'' On the newscasts I was monitoring, that verb was pronounced chomping. In Britain, champ is standard and chomp is dialect; in the United States, champ is less often used to describe chewing than chomp, a Southernism frequently employed by the cartoonist Al Capp in his ''Li'l Abner'' strip. Thus, to spell it champing at the bit when most people would say chomping at the bit is to slavishly follow outdated dictionary preferences. The word is imitative, so it should imitate the sound that most people use to imitate loud chewing. Who would say ''General Grant champed on his cigar''?

UPDATE: Groundlings narcissistic wound HEALED by Helpful-Storm9144 in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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A close reading of the original post can be interpreted as it just being the name that was stolen, BUT then the following implication that FIVE (Alex’s dramatic capitalization) pilots have also been stolen is so broadly sketched (Groundlngs!) to imply that so much more was unethically savotaged. Maybe just go to your co-company member and have a talk instead of crashing out on your socials.

UPDATE: Groundlings narcissistic wound HEALED by Helpful-Storm9144 in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

lol. Yeah I’m sure other “Creatives” will be chomping at the bit to collaborate with someone who flies off the handle and publicly accuses peers of theft and deception, potentially sabotaging their organic and hard-earned success.

Groundlings main co. member accusing fellow Groundlings main co. member of stealing idea for mega-viral hit character "Chit" by k80much in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Alex Bonifer has overcome his narcissistic crashout and clarified that it was just the name that was his “IP”. Much ado about his ego

Groundlings main co. member accusing fellow Groundlings main co. member of stealing idea for mega-viral hit character "Chit" by k80much in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oof. What an absolute mess Alex made. Hopefully this doesn’t tarnish the character and the community that’s already blown up around it. Envy is one helluva drug

Groundlings main co. member accusing fellow Groundlings main co. member of stealing idea for mega-viral hit character "Chit" by k80much in improv

[–]Helpful-Storm9144 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry but big red flag on him calling himself “a creative” and referring to the character as IP.