Pietasters
The first time, years ago, that I saw “Pietasters”, I misparsed it as people who are bad at pie, or piety?, on the analogy of poetasters (poet-asters, see).
OED says:
“-aster: a. L. -aster, suffix of sbs. and adjs., expressing incomplete resemblance, hence generally pejorative (Diez); e.g. L. philosophaster a petty philosopher, oleaster a wild or bastard olive, surdaster a little deaf. Extensively used in Rom. langs. (It. -astro, Sp. -astro, -astre, Pr. -astre, OF. -astre, mod.F. -âtre), esp. in F. as adj. suffix, e.g. bleuâtre bluish, blanchâtre whitish, etc. In Eng. only in words from L. or Romance, e.g. astrologaster, grammaticaster, oleaster, poetaster, politicaster.”
I’m WEIRD.
You know, a friend of mine reported that while shopping for some Judas Priest for her husband’s birthday, she was alarmed to find that it had been moved from Metal to Rock. When she asked the two men working there “but…?” They said they play Priest on the classic rock station now, so it’s considered Rock.
There is so much wrong with this.
Be My Blog 
A Lovecraftian Hollow Earth Tale
or
A Sermon on Popular Music
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Haha I like #1 a lot
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And Rock is located ONE STEP BEYOND
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This Way Lies…
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…Pietasters?
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Heh
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You tell me! That’s the Ska section at Amoeba!
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Pietasters
The first time, years ago, that I saw “Pietasters”, I misparsed it as people who are bad at pie, or piety?, on the analogy of poetasters (poet-asters, see).
OED says:
“-aster: a. L. -aster, suffix of sbs. and adjs., expressing incomplete resemblance, hence generally pejorative (Diez); e.g. L. philosophaster a petty philosopher, oleaster a wild or bastard olive, surdaster a little deaf. Extensively used in Rom. langs. (It. -astro, Sp. -astro, -astre, Pr. -astre, OF. -astre, mod.F. -âtre), esp. in F. as adj. suffix, e.g. bleuâtre bluish, blanchâtre whitish, etc. In Eng. only in words from L. or Romance, e.g. astrologaster, grammaticaster, oleaster, poetaster, politicaster.”
I’m WEIRD.
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Twas ever thus.
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You know, a friend of mine reported that while shopping for some Judas Priest for her husband’s birthday, she was alarmed to find that it had been moved from Metal to Rock. When she asked the two men working there “but…?” They said they play Priest on the classic rock station now, so it’s considered Rock.
There is so much wrong with this.
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you’re right that this is a mistake. however, i still support moving Metallica to Oldies
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Well, you know, Rock is merely a fading sub-genre of Modern.
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You skankin’ pickle, you!
Does this mean I can get you a porkpie and some checkered suspenders?!
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Come in under the shadow of this red rock
But I thought madness was all in the mind!
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To prove the point…
I am a rock.
I am an island.
Hello madness, my old friend.
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I thought Madness was in the middle of the street? I mean, that’s where their house is, right? Or were they big fucking liars?
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Something told them that they had to get away from it.
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