Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
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.
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.
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.
Connie's vapours are mine.
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.
Connie's vapours are mine.
Bring Your Own Fan.
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.
Dude, that's nothing. In the end, the humans win. No, really. They defeat Yog-Sothoth and everything. WTF is THAT about?
(from amchau) Rowling divulges tidbits from HP6.
Nobel prizewinning poet Czeslaw Milosz died this weekend. Obituary in the NYT, no doubt also elsewhere.
I've just picked up Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. So far, am very sucked in. Has this one been discussed before? Does this one crop up on people's favorites when discussing Atwood?