QI/Veronica Mars - Fluffer!
Dry Gulch Pete
down and pick me up, it turned up on Veronica Mars...
Logan Echolls(!) is talking to Wallis in his pad when Wallis spots a
floozie lounging on Logan's bed by a pillow - Logan says,
'This is my fluffer'!
Interesting word, fluffer, and a new one on me, lol!
John Dean
> On QI, Stephen Fry explained what 'fluffer' meant and then, blow me
Really?
> down
Oh, right.
> and pick me up, it turned up on Veronica Mars...
>
> Logan Echolls(!) is talking to Wallis in his pad when Wallis spots a
> floozie lounging on Logan's bed by a pillow - Logan says,
>
> 'This is my fluffer'!
>
> Interesting word, fluffer, and a new one on me, lol!
You have a new fluffer on you? Kudos!
Before the porn trade it was a railway term:
OED
A worker on a railway system (spec. the London Underground) employed to
clear the track of refuse (see also quot. 1964).
1956 in Shorter Oxf. Dict. Add. 1962 Guardian 19 Jan. 9/6 They call
them fluffers+because their job is to remove the fluff and dust that gets+on
to the rails. 1964 Daily Mirror 30 Jan. 18/5 Fluffers.+ That's the name
given to the gangs of women employed to clean the walls of London
Underground tunnels during the early hours of the morning.
--
John Dean
Oxford
Mike Hall
> Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
> > On QI, Stephen Fry explained what 'fluffer' meant and then, blow me
>
> Really?
>
> > down
>
> Oh, right.
>
> > and pick me up, it turned up on Veronica Mars...
>
> > Logan Echolls(!) is talking to Wallis in his pad when Wallis spots a
> > floozie lounging on Logan's bed by a pillow - Logan says,
>
> > 'This is my fluffer'!
>
> > Interesting word, fluffer, and a new one on me, lol!
>
> You have a new fluffer on you? Kudos!
> Before the porn trade it was a railway term:
Also, someone who used to make pillows more comfortable.
Mike Hall
Basil Jet
While people did fluff pillows to make them more comfortable, there was no
way that the noun "fluffer" would have been used to describe people who did
it because no-one did it as a job.
--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.
Nick
Quite right, John - Fry went into that as well.
Nick from England
Nick
Whereas, in the porn trade... :-D
Very appropriate handle you have, Basil!
Nick from England
michael adams
"Dry Gulch Pete" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:f6b726af-e871-42a1...@s20g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> On QI, Stephen Fry explained what 'fluffer' meant and then, blow me
> down and pick me up, it turned up on Veronica Mars...
"Fluffers" in the porn industry went out of business around 10 years ago
with the introduction of Viagra. Shame that little nugget wasn't included
on his cue card, nor any mention of Murray McLachlans celebrated folk song
spoof on the topic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlwbEcYY_k
michael adams
...
Mike Hall
wrote:
I have no doubts that there was a fluffer wallah job in the old
British Raj.
Mike Hall
Dry Gulch Pete
> "Dry Gulch Pete" <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote in messagenews:f6b726af-e871-42a1...@s20g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On QI, Stephen Fry explained what 'fluffer' meant and then, blow me
> > down and pick me up, it turned up on Veronica Mars...
>
> "Fluffers" in the porn industry went out of business around 10 years ago
> with the introduction of Viagra. Shame that little nugget wasn't included
> on his cue card, nor any mention of Murray McLachlans celebrated folk song
> spoof on the topic
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlwbEcYY_k
>
Oh, Fry had the Viagra bit on his cue card, too, but I didn't want to
make a long story! :-)
Viagra has a terrible side effect for some coves - did you ever hear
of the movie, The Lustful Vicar? - his reverence had the same
problem! :-D
Thanks for the song, lol.
Nick from England
David Kaye
>You have a new fluffer on you? Kudos!
>Before the porn trade it was a railway term:
Before the 1950s, a glory hole was an open pit mine shaft such as might be dug
to excavate gold.
Mike Hall
I'm wondering what actually happened on today's Veronica Mars. I
watched it at 11.15am and there were so many cuts that the programme
made big jumps from one bit of a conversation to another! I'm
guessing someone grassed them up about the fluffer gag.
Mike Hall
John Dean
Before the 1950s Cliff Richard was Harry Webb and Hank Marvin was Brian
Rankin
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John Dean
Oxford
Fred X
Yeah, especially the bit where Beaver and Veronica were on the roof.
It was like when they used to show Angel and one minute there would
be loads of people attacking Angel and then a few seconds later they
would all be lying on the floor!
Fred X
Dry Gulch Pete
But WOW - what a great episode!
David Kaye
>Before the 1950s Cliff Richard was Harry Webb and Hank Marvin was Brian
>Rankin
Gosh, and let's see...
Steward Granger was James Stewart, Michael Keaton was Michael Douglas, and
David Bowie was Davy Jones.
Robin Bignall
wrote:
And John Wayne was Marion Robert Morrison
--
Robin
(BrE)
Herts, England
John Dean
Marion Michael Morrison, Shirley?
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John Dean
Oxford
Robin Bignall
According to Wikipedia, he was born Marion Robert Morrison and became
Marion Mitchell Morrison.
"Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa.[2] His
middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents
decided to name their next son Robert."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne#Early_life
Gordon Freeman
> That's the name
> given to the gangs of women employed to clean the walls of London
> Underground tunnels during the early hours of the morning.
So if you are a bit of fluff who picks up bits of fluff you are a fluffer.
--
John Dean
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:58:55 -0000, "John Dean"
> <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
>
>> Robin Bignall wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:58:57 GMT, sfdavi...@yahoo.com (David
>>> Kaye) wrote:
>>>
>>>> "John Dean" <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Before the 1950s Cliff Richard was Harry Webb and Hank Marvin was
>>>>> Brian Rankin
>>>>
>>>> Gosh, and let's see...
>>>>
>>>> Steward Granger was James Stewart, Michael Keaton was Michael
>>>> Douglas, and David Bowie was Davy Jones.
>>>
>>> And John Wayne was Marion Robert Morrison
>>
>> Marion Michael Morrison, Shirley?
>
> According to Wikipedia, he was born Marion Robert Morrison and became
> Marion Mitchell Morrison.
> "Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa.[2] His
> middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents
> decided to name their next son Robert."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne#Early_life
Ah.
I was still printing the legend.
IMDb says:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/bio
"Most published sources refer to Wayne's birth name as Marion Michael
Morrison. His birth certificate, however, gives his original name as Marion
Robert Morrison. According to Wayne's own statements, after the birth of his
younger brother in 1911, his parents named the newborn Robert Emmett and
changed Wayne's name from Marion Robert to Marion Michael. It has also been
suggested by several of his biographers that Wayne's parents actually
changed his birth name from Marion Robert to Marion Mitchell. In "Duke: The
Life and Times of John Wayne" (1985), Donald Shepherd and Robert F. Slatzer
state that when Wayne's younger brother was born, "the Duke's middle name
was changed from Robert to Mitchell. . . . After he gained celebrity, Duke
deliberately confused biographers and others by claiming Michael as his
middle name, a claim that had no basis in fact." "
--
John Dean
Oxford
Basil Jet
Are you Fluff Freeman?
Dry Gulch Pete
>
> >> That's the name
> >> given to the gangs of women employed to clean the walls of London
> >> Underground tunnels during the early hours of the morning.
>
> > So if you are a bit of fluff who picks up bits of fluff you are a
> > fluffer.
>
> Are you Fluff Freeman?
>
'Sfunny - I fort of Fluff Freeman, too...
' Hi there pop-pickers'!
Mike Hall
It is interesting that today's episode shows Veronica being groped in
a bar with her top nearly coming off. Maybe E4 are waiting until this
show becomes more popular before putting it in its proper 10pm slot,
and are trying to popularize it by daring the Daily Mail to condemn
it?
Mike Hall
Fred X
All she showed was her midriff, not even the Daily Mail could get into
a tizz about that.
Fred X
Mike Hall
The Mail gets upset when the Japanese pixellate female anatomy.
Mike Hall
Basil Jet
Who doesn't!
Fred X
The funny thing about Japanes porn is that they have pictures where a
young lady has her face covered in jizz, but the actual penis has to
be pixellated out!
Fred X