OMG, it took me years to find out that "fancy dress" was not, like, formal wear.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
meara - May 25, 2011 12:11:21 pm PDT #14908 of 28286
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.
Sue - May 25, 2011 2:32:29 pm PDT #14917 of 28286
hip deep in pie
I don't know how (well through my parents probably), but I ended using a few vaguely British phrases as a kid that caused what seemed like an unnecessary amount of confusion at the time.
I still remember asking for chips at a McDonalds and the girl behind the counter thinking I meant potato chips. That happened a lot. I learned to say fries. But hey, fish and chips is VERY POPULAR around here and I don't know why people can't figure it out.
I also remember getting teased for saying half-past four, instead of four-thirty.