Wrod. Not as confusing as "fancy dress", but misleading in its way.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - May 25, 2011 12:09:20 pm PDT #14907 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
meara - May 25, 2011 12:11:21 pm PDT #14908 of 28286
OMG, it took me years to find out that "fancy dress" was not, like, formal wear.
hippocampus - May 25, 2011 12:15:53 pm PDT #14909 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Also, Sam the Bat is on our list too. I might have mentioned my dismay at the library that they didn't have it.
EpicTangent - May 25, 2011 12:49:00 pm PDT #14910 of 28286
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
OMG, it took me years to find out that "fancy dress" was not, like, formal wear.
Totally!
I seem to remember "jumpers" being confusing when I was little. I wondered why everyone was putting on overalls all the time.
Liese S. - May 25, 2011 1:10:21 pm PDT #14911 of 28286
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
OMG, it took me years to find out that "fancy dress" was not, like, formal wear.
Wait, it's not? Oh, no, right, fancy dress is a costume party, right?
erikaj - May 25, 2011 1:12:43 pm PDT #14912 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
yeah. "Costumes" or a masquerade party to Americans.
Laga - May 25, 2011 2:02:39 pm PDT #14913 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I told the sweet little British lady who was babysitting me that I didn't want a biscuit.
Polter-Cow - May 25, 2011 2:15:25 pm PDT #14914 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But you DID. You just didn't know it.
Consuela - May 25, 2011 2:16:47 pm PDT #14915 of 28286
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
As a child, I found it much easier to handle things like scones, lorries, and crumpets--because they weren't words I already knew--than words I knew, like jumper or biscuit, which were Clearly Wrong.
Of course, now I'm just as likely to say "arse" as "ass", and "bollocks" is one of my favorite curses. So I'm apparently now residing somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic ocean...
Laga - May 25, 2011 2:32:08 pm PDT #14916 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
But you DID. You just didn't know it.
I know! I was also a little freaked out when I heard the family talking in the morning and the babysitter's son asked if he should go knock me up.