Happy Birthday, kailucidricwolf!

For your present, here's Yesterday's Forgotten English! (Today's is boring.)

fuzzle
To make fuzzy or indistinct with drink. To fossle, vossle, to entangle, to confute business. [From] Low German fusslig, just tipsy enough to speak indistinctly.

--Hensleigh Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, 1878

[Allied with] German faseln, to rave, dote.

--Charles Küttner's German-English Dictionary, 1805

Oktoberfest
Originating in 1810 as a horse race to honor the marriage of Bavaria's eccentric Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest has over the years become a protracted celebration of the brewer's art, currently occupying sixteen days and nights in early October. The memory of the original event has been linguistically preserved, with those departing for the festivities in Munich sometimes saying they are going "to the meadow," meaning the site of the horse race. Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases (1922) noted another provincial drinking expression, "to come home by the villages," which meant to be drunk. "If, on the other hand, one comes home by the fields, one has no opportunity for drinking."

So when furries go around fuzzling one another, they little know what they're doing! I wonder if it's related to "wassail."

-The Gneech

Awesome! =D

The Thrilling Days of Yesteryear blog reports today that the first season of Mission: Impossible is finally coming out on DVD sometime in the next year!

They also put in a dig about those Tom Cruise crapfests that defile the great show's memory, so they get double points from me. :)

-The Gneech

Let's Get Silly!

I got a package today! Specifically, it was a copy of TOON: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game (Deluxe Edition) sent my way via eBay as a berfday prezzie from milgrove.

Mwuuuhahahhaaa... *looks around all eeeeevil-like*

Thanks, buddy! I'll put it to good use! ;)

-The Gneech