Though I imagine it would likewise be exacerbated by overly tight corseting.
I have no practical experience, but I expect it would be harder to work up a great...vapour with the corseting on.
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
§ ita § - Aug 12, 2004 10:35:27 am PDT #5591 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2004 10:47:53 am PDT #5592 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmmm, dunno if the extra pressure would help or hinder the process.
I'm glad that this past week I had a chance to skim a few pages from Titus Crow at the bookstore, as I'd previously thought about buying it.
This was before I hit the page that was like Melrose Place with the Cthulhu Cyle Deities cast in the principal roles, mind you. Bleargh.
billytea - Aug 12, 2004 10:49:16 am PDT #5593 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This was before I hit the page that was like Melrose Place with the Cthulhu Cyle Deities cast in the principal roles, mind you. Bleargh.
Hey, if it was good enough for the Greeks...
Topic!Cindy - Aug 12, 2004 11:54:49 am PDT #5594 of 10002
What is even happening?
Hmmm, it's used differently in the South, where I've always heard it as a more polite euphemism for being flatulent. Though I imagine it would likewise be exacerbated by overly tight corseting.
This is how I've always understood it, too.
billytea - Aug 12, 2004 11:55:38 am PDT #5595 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is how I've always understood it, too.
Reading Jane Austen must be a very different experience in the South.
Ginger - Aug 12, 2004 12:09:10 pm PDT #5596 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hmmm, it's used differently in the South, where I've always heard it as a more polite euphemism for being flatulent.
That's interesting. I've lived in the South for 35 years and my mother's family has lived in Tennessee for several generations, and I've never heard it used as a euphemism for flatulence. It's always been used for someone who "took to her bed," usually for no apparent reason.
Connie Neil - Aug 12, 2004 12:16:44 pm PDT #5597 of 10002
brillig
It's always been used for someone who "took to her bed," usually for no apparent reason
Ah. The vapours = "I need a nap." Works for me, and you can give the impression of being delicate and frail at the same time. I've always pictured "the vapours" as synonymous with swooning and fanning oneself.
Daisy Jane - Aug 12, 2004 12:19:32 pm PDT #5598 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ginger's understanding is mine. Not in the nap sense though- more in the "must lie in bed with some undefined malady" It's the less severe form of "Pale coughing disease" so many heroines seem to come down with.
brenda m - Aug 12, 2004 12:22:03 pm PDT #5599 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie's vapours are mine.
Ginger - Aug 12, 2004 12:23:10 pm PDT #5600 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not sure if "took to her bed" is a Southernism or left over from my excessive reading of trashy 19th century novels. As Heather says, it means someone who, without a definable ailment, just stays in bed.