In the fine Buffista tradition of contrarian nitpicking, I'm'a go out on a limb and say that Keanu says "whoa", whereas "woah" is totally a Joey Lawrence thing. And is thus banninated.

(Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?)

I passed on reading it when it was being handed around the office at my last job, because I knew it would make me furious.

It probably will not surprise you that a coworker gave me the book to read, and I'm pretty sure I didn't finish because I reached a point where I told myself to put it down before I threw it at a wall.

Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?

Apparently, that would be me. Give it a pithy name!

I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.

Not seeing why "whoa" can't mean both. It always has to me. It was used an expression of amazement before Bill & Ted, y'all.

Right there with you. I mean, isn't it basically another way of saying "Stop it!" in amazement? Which is a thing people say? (Or said.)

Timelies all!

Got back last night. Had to go to work in the rain, though the traffic wasn't bad at all.(Might have been the 2 hour delay available.)

Contact was still anathema in my youth.

I'm using up most of my grammar rage these days on people who hyphenate -ly words. They're adverbs, people. That means they modify the adjective. The hyphen is for words that do not already scream "I'm modifying! I'm modifying the fuck out of this!"

I cannot picture what you are talking about, Ginger, and now I'm worried that I do that.

A "gently-stirred sauce," for example?

I was picturing "gent-ly stirred sauce" and was very confused.

In case anyone was looking for something to watch on TV tonight, the CW is re-airing the first two episodes of Jane the Virgin tonight.