'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Since this particular variation of Mormonism seems to have recently opted for "Do what Jeff says" as its primary dogma, I don't see how it can survive in its present form past his death.
This leader has been running the show since his father died a few years ago. He appears to be running it into the ground.
The Americanized version is "kerfufflize."
I just got an email with some sort of strategic planning reminder!!
They're trying to bump up to religion status, whoever they are.
It wasn't even for my own department.
That's what they tell you now.
What is the etymology of 'kerfuffle'?
For some reason I imagine it started in the porn industry. I like the idea of a fluffer kerfuffle.
You say kerfuffle, I say kerfluffle
Will Baude at 09:33 PM
In response to my post below, Dan Moore writes in to gently suggest that I have mis-spelled the word "kerfuffle" by slipping in a superfluous "l". As an investigation of the Crescat archives may reveal, this is not a one-time oversight on my part, but rather repetitive, if perhaps erroneous, usage.
My "kerfluffle" does not appear in the OED or Dictionary.com, and it is outnumbered on Google by about 56 to 4. Still, I like the extra letter, so I thought I should investigate how reasonable it would be to claim the new word as an alternate spelling or new formation.
"Kerfuffle", it turns out, has endured many new and old spellings, including "curfuffle", "kurfuffle," "carfuffle," "gefuffle" and "cafuffle". It started life as a Scottish verb, a variant of "fuffle" (disorder) saddled with an uncertain prefix perh/car/cur/ker/etc.
However, "fuffle" itself began life as a piece of onomatopoeia, so "fluffle" which sounds sweeter and a touch less violent to my ear can make a legitimate claim to being a lighter, fluffier fuffle. Tracing kerfuffle's path, a ker-fluffle becomes a more light-hearted and goodnatured flurry or disarray than its older kin. Henceforth, I will stand by my neologism.
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Main Entry: ker·fuf·fle
Pronunciation: k&r-'f&-f&l
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of carfuffle, from Scots car- (probably from Scottish Gaelic cearr wrong, awkward) + fuffle to become disheveled
chiefly British : DISTURBANCE, FUSS
Main Entry: ker·fuf·fle
I didn't even know it was a real word.
I won't be able to pick up the tape today!
oy bummer. I'll leave it out on the porch for whenever you can pick it up.
Yeah, it's just me and Will Baude against the world.
Only the Buffistas could start a Kerfuffle about Kerfuffle.