hopefully we can all agree that usage ultimately defines a word.
Or even, in this instance, that dictionaries do.
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Sep 09, 2007 1:13:06 pm PDT #4800 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
omnis_audis - Sep 09, 2007 1:39:42 pm PDT #4801 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ok, I have to admit, I am really liking the On Demand thing of Digital Cable. Catching up on WEEDS, and thus avoiding chores.
Polter-Cow - Sep 09, 2007 2:04:25 pm PDT #4802 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oooh, new Weeds tomorrow. I almost forgot. And now we're past the screeners.
meara - Sep 09, 2007 2:11:05 pm PDT #4803 of 10001
OK, question for everyone: What is appropriate funeral attire? I was rather surprised at the funeral I attended this afternoon, I would say less than half the crowd was wearing black.
And some were wearing like, blue jeans and a blue and white striped shirt. We're not even talking "Oh, I don't have black so I wore dark purple" or "Well, she didn't like black so I got dressed up in her favorite color pink" or something.
beth b - Sep 09, 2007 2:16:45 pm PDT #4804 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Color wise - I'm not to worried about what people wear - I have to say I expect more conservative/more formal types of clothing.
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2007 2:18:27 pm PDT #4805 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think of proper funeral attire as being dressy and sober. Not necessarily black (neither my mother nor I wore black at my dad's funeral), but dark and/or muted colors. I can't imagine not wearing a dress or skirt to a funeral, and I'd expect a man to wear a tie. Nothing perky or festive and nothing too revealing.
sumi - Sep 09, 2007 2:19:03 pm PDT #4806 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
What Beth said. . . I would be surprised if the people closest to the deceased weren't wearing black but other attendees? I think formal daywear is what I would expect.
WindSparrow - Sep 09, 2007 2:21:50 pm PDT #4807 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Funeral attire: I think I would be comfortable in any semi-dressy outfit I would feel pleased to go to church in - ya know, nicely dressed up so as to show respect and create the right mind-set for worship. This is as opposed to those times when I have shown up to church in slounge-y clothes on the principle that hauling my butt into a pew in any old thing is better than not going because I could not manage to dress up.
amych - Sep 09, 2007 2:23:30 pm PDT #4808 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'd be surprised at the jeans, but hardly anyone's worn black at any recent funeral I can remember, other than on people who'd be wearing black anyway. To me the new standard of funeral-appropriate is mostly (if not exclusively) dark and fairly sober cuts -- not a lot of flouncy ruffly things, for instance.
meara - Sep 09, 2007 2:25:37 pm PDT #4809 of 10001
Yeah, I was just as surprised by the lack of dark/sober as I was by the informality. And heck, even some of the not-jeans was, like, a white halter-neck sundress. Which seemed odd also.