"Bemused" actually bothers me, because I always, ALWAYS read it as "amused puzzlement," but amusement is not, in fact, anywhere in the definition.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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."
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2009 5:13:53 pm PDT #9580 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2009 5:14:20 pm PDT #9581 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Keith Richards - Ghoul Fucker
That one might be true.
Hil R. - Jul 12, 2009 5:14:31 pm PDT #9582 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And I adore Tep because she knows there's a difference, as SO FEW PEOPLE do anymore.
Including at least one dictionary: [link]
3: to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2009 5:15:11 pm PDT #9583 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That is a faulty, shoddy-ass dictionary. Feh.
Hil R. - Jul 12, 2009 5:16:03 pm PDT #9584 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, it's the third definition. First two are confuse and distract.
Fay - Jul 12, 2009 5:23:36 pm PDT #9585 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I had no idea there was any confusion over the meaning of bemused until quite recently.
shakes head.
Now I'm imagining Queen Victoria saying: "We are not bemused."
And then slaying a demon.
erikaj - Jul 12, 2009 5:25:33 pm PDT #9586 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
She could slay, she just didn't like to.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2009 8:29:36 pm PDT #9587 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Abraham Lincoln - Zombie Emancipator!
Actually, the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author's next book is about Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer.
Calli - Jul 13, 2009 1:58:06 am PDT #9588 of 28404
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
She could slay, she just didn't like to.
She was an empress of the largest empire in human history. Surely she had people for that.
Volans - Jul 13, 2009 5:08:55 am PDT #9589 of 28404
move out and draw fire
I have it on good authority (ok, Neil Gaiman) that the British royalty, far from being demon hunters, were in fact Lovecraftian gods.