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.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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 perez - Jun 15, 2005 12:47:22 pm PDT #2273 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
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.
kat perez - Jun 15, 2005 1:04:07 pm PDT #2281 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
having a wee cafoufle in the garden.
Whee! New Tag.
Nutty - Jun 15, 2005 1:05:08 pm PDT #2282 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ye need na put yoursel into ony carfuffle about the matter.
I can totally hear myself saying this in an exaggerated Scottish accent, every time fandom_wank goes insane.
This is why it's a good thing my internet is not wired for sound.