The Montfort Chronicles

Thrice born: The origins of this term are shrouded in mystery. It had its beginnings during one of the house picnics (Gabriel House picnic, I think). The approximate time of coinage was between the year 1997 and 2000.My memory is so flaky that's the least I can narrow it down to. Besides, the term was coined by some senior and the story had gotten so diluted by the time it reached my ears I can hardly vouch for its authenticity. I remember it was the talk of the school at that time, the use of this original expletive and the legendary fight with followed between the budding linguist and the offended party. The original usage in its extended form was thrice-born motherfucking bastard. Of course, no lucid explanation can be given for such a fancifully bad-ass term, but this is what I always thought it to mean.

1.Son seduces his Mother, dies and is reincarnated as the mother's bastard child. The coupling obviously happened out of wedlock.

2.The bastard child mentioned has an Oedipus complex, leading to coitus with his mother.

3.Obviously, he dies before his pregnant mother comes to term and is re-incarnated as his mother's second son.

4.The baby grows up and repeats steps 2 and 3.

Now the child that is born out of this coupling is thrice-born, he is a motherfucker and has the added distinction of being a bastard. Ergo, he/she (yes, the third reincarnation could be female) is a thrice-born motherfucking bastard. Pretty simple, eh? Obviously certain conditions need to be taken into consideration, including late menopause for the mother. Also, the son must die in the few seconds just after ejaculation and before the egg is fertilized. The possibility of all these conditions simultaneously occurring is extremely rare, thus making thrice-born motherfucking bastards very scarce entities. The whole scenario can also be achieved using a time-machine, but the resulting temporal fluctuations in the space-time fabric could possibly render existence into oblivion, so this is not something I'd suggest.

Anybody who has an alternate meaning for the word is welcome to write in. Thrice-born motherfuckin' bastards are called "Thrice-borns" for short and sometimes even called "Thrice" affectionately.