Alphabet meme

[altivo]

Copied from hgryphon:


A - Accent: Upper Midwest US/Ontario Canada mixture
B - Breakfast Item: anything with oats in it: Cheerios, oatmeal, muffins...
C - Chore you hate: ironing
D - Dad's Name: Laurence
E - Essential everyday item: backpack with many items inside
F - Flavour ice cream: caribou tracks
G - Gold or Silver?: Elektrum, the ancient Greek blend of both
H - Hometown: Melvindale, Michigan to age 10; Dearborn Heights, Michigan to age 20.
I - Insomnia?: not usually
J - Job Title: General Services Librarian
K - Kids: no, thank you
L - Living arrangements: Co-own 5 acre mini-farm with mate
M - Mother's birthplace: Decatur, Michigan
N - Number of significant others you've ever had: 5
O - Overnight hospital stays: 3 (tonsils, age 3; hepatitis, age 24; concussion, age 49)
P - Phobia: none particularly, though I'm not fond of slimy, squirmy things
Q - Queer?: Sure
R - Religious Affiliation: none
S - Siblings: 1 sister and 1 brother living, 1 sister and 1 brother deceased
T - Time you wake up: about 5 am most days
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: none
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: artichokes aren't worth the trouble, all others are yummy
W - Worst habit: daydreaming and procrastinating
X - X-rays you've had: lost count long ago
Y - Yummy: eggplant parmesan
Z - Zodiac sign: Saggittarius (third deccan), Virgo rising, Libra moon

Comments

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Well, we use "puffed up" or more usually "fluffed up" for pillows, so "poofed up" may be from that direction instead. (Or possibly from "pouffe", a loanword from French that refers to a very cushioned footstool.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm confident that puff and poof are the same word, arriving via different routes from a common source (probably French.) And the connotation of "effeminate male" for "poof" shows that. Such men are sometimes called "cream puffs" over here.