In the kerfuffle of the last half hour I had forgotten the poor soul's personal needs.
Oh, I should put this in my tag bullpen for the next time people get all hot and bothered in Bureaucracy.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
Kat - Jun 15, 2005 12:47:01 pm PDT #2271 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
amych - Jun 15, 2005 12:47:16 pm PDT #2272 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Only the Buffistas could start a Kerfuffle about Kerfuffle.
Not on LJ, are you?
kat perez - Jun 15, 2005 12:47:22 pm PDT #2273 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
cafoufle
I know the pronunciation is supposed to be similar to kerfuffle, but in my head this sounds like "Kah-foo-flay" and I love it so, so much.
Kat - Jun 15, 2005 12:48:07 pm PDT #2274 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Random: Someone at work just said to me, "Oh. Why are you still here?"
Bahahah. and, Thanks.
Allyson - Jun 15, 2005 12:48:48 pm PDT #2275 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 12:52:14 pm PDT #2276 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I want to find this dude and kick his ass.
from the link:
They were asked to pay Scooby Gang Promotions by money order or direct debit.
perhaps a red flag?
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 12:52:18 pm PDT #2277 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a shame he didn't fly Oceanic.
Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2005 12:56:45 pm PDT #2278 of 10001
brillig
After..some abortive backstage kerfuffles at the National Theatre, Wedekind's Spring Awakening has scraped past the Lord Chamberlain
There's so much story in that one sentence.
DXMachina - Jun 15, 2005 12:59:02 pm PDT #2279 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I want to find this dude and kick his ass.
Yeah, there was a quick mention of that over at that con-dom-wank LJ.
Rick - Jun 15, 2005 12:59:48 pm PDT #2280 of 10001
The other spelling has more interesting citations. I particularly like "Ye ken where Dick curfuffled a' her hair" from 1768.
curfuffle cur'fuffle, sb. Sc. Also carfuffle, cafuffle, etc. [f. prec. vb.Now widely used as a colloquialism in the forms gefuffle and (esp.) kerfuffle. ]
Disorder, flurry, agitation.
* 1813 G. Bruce Poems 65 An' Jeanie's kirtle, aye sae neat, Gat there a sad carfuffle.
* 1816 Scott Antiq. xx, Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle.
* 1816 Scott Antiq. xxix, Troth, my lord maun be turned feel outright..and he puts himself into sic a curfuffle for ony thing ye could bring him, Edie.
* 1823 Misses Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 333 (Jam.) Ye need na put yoursel into ony carfuffle about the matter.
* 1953 John o' London's 3 July 602/3 The word cafuffle is still in general use in her part of Scotland..as a noun meaning a state of confusion.
* 1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy vii. 114, I could put up with any amount of monotony far more patiently than even the smallest disturbance, bother, bustle, or what the Scotch call kurfuffle.
* 1960 K. Martin Matter of Time 187 The girl next door and her boy friend are having a wee cafoufle in the garden.
* 1961 Radio Times 14 Dec. 3/2 You remember the cafuffle there was when the Ministry of Transport introduced their ten-year test for cars.
* 1971 Times 9 Jan. 16/4 Since the predictable pre-April curfuffle, there has been the predictable summer and autumn hush.
curfuffle cur'fuffle, v. Sc. [Deriv. of a simple fuffle v. to disorder: the first syllable is perh. Gaelic car twist, bend, turn about; used in combination in car-fhocal quibble, prevarication, car-shúil rolling eye, car-tuaitheal wrong turn: cf. the Lowland Sc. curcuddoch, curdoo, curgloff, curjute, curmurring, curnoited, in which the prefix seems to have the sense of L. dis-. ] trans. To put into a state of disorder; to ruffle.
* 1583 R. S. Leg. Bp. St. Androis in Sempill Ballates (1872) 215 His ruffe curfufled about his craig.
* 1768 Ross Helenore 81 (Jam.) Ye ken where Dick curfuffled a' her hair.