Craig: "Um, to eat a lot? Like at the chinese place with all the food you want?"
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Craig: "Um, to eat a lot? Like at the chinese place with all the food you want?"
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Dr. Grumpy: "Okay, next word, what does 'buffeted' mean?"
Craig: "Um, to eat a lot? Like at the chinese place with all the food you want?"
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Craig: "Um, to eat a lot? Like at the chinese place with all the food you want?"
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Mary: My Awesome Secretary
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Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
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Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
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10 comments:
I'm guessing - without googling - I'd say blown at - like buffeted by the storm.
Doesn't it mean attending a Jimmy Buffet concert?
-Flavius
Hmmmm. I wonder, perhaps buffet can also be a verb in French.
Miriam Webster says:
Main Entry: buffet
Function: verb
Date: 13th century
transitive verb
1 : to strike sharply especially with the hand : cuff
2 : to strike repeatedly : batter
3 : to drive, force, move, or attack by or as if by repeated blows
intransitive verb : to make one's way especially under difficult conditions
I hate to admit this, but I had to look it up! I never use buffet as a verb, only as a delicious noun!
How 'bout using it in a sentence?
I buffeted my way in line at the buffet today at the Dragon's View restaurant.
(Does that work?)
Buffeted - to restore shine to "grizzly" stuffed animals. ;)
In the old days, you'd buffet him about the ears for this answer.
Oh, well. Literacy is overrated these days. The real question is, how are his coding skills?
How funny! I will never think of buffeted only in the same sentence as 'storm' ever, again.
I was in the dairy aisle yesterday and overheard a man talking on his cell phone, 'No, there's no Yoplait brand left, just Dannon.' 'Yoplait' sounded like Yoeplatt -North Platte, Nebraska, and 'Dannon' sounded like Dannoe, -I dunno.
I was so busy imagining a conversation, 'Pinnott, sil vou platt' that I nearly missed a cue to hand over a 25 cent off coupon at the check-out.
Makes perfect sense.
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