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william_brasky
3/21/2006, 06:10 AM
President Bush is known as a plainspoken man, a straight-talker. So how did a word like "kerfuffle" come out of his mouth?

It's not an everyday word; it means a commotion or fuss. Bush casually used it during a question-and-answer session after a speech at the City Club in Cleveland. Someone had asked about his administration's warrantless surveillance program, which has stirred concern about whether it exceeds the bounds of his authority and violates the law.

Saying the program had "created quite a kerfuffle in the press," Bush gave his rationale for authorizing it.

No question, the program has riled some Republicans and Democrats. But Bush may be the only politician who says it has caused a kerfuffle. An aide said he has heard Bush use the word privately before, but not in public.
OUinFLA
3/21/2006, 07:12 AM
Reader's Digest:

"It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power".
Hamhock
3/21/2006, 09:51 AM
An aide said he told Bush to use the word, in the rare chance it would make him sound intelligent.


fixed
sooner n houston
3/21/2006, 09:57 AM
He must read the WSJ Opinion pages they use that word all the time!
VeeJay
3/21/2006, 12:19 PM
Wow. And all this time I thought a kerfuffle was the pleated thing that hangs from the top of the box spring to the floor. I'll need to get Mrs. VJ to clarify.
yermom
3/21/2006, 12:37 PM
that hardly sounds like an "intellectual" word...

sounds like one of those gibberish words

i'm not slamming Bush, i'm just saying it's hardly impressive
picasso
3/21/2006, 12:41 PM
it's big in Texas.
Ike
3/21/2006, 01:32 PM
that hardly sounds like an "intellectual" word...

sounds like one of those gibberish words

i'm not slamming Bush, i'm just saying it's hardly impressive
thats kind of what I thought. It sounds like a word my mother in law would use.
BeetDigger
3/21/2006, 02:05 PM
I think he found it on a scrap of paper in the oval office desk, left over from Clinton.


It was a code word for blowjob.
Dio
3/21/2006, 02:08 PM
I think he found it on a scrap of paper in the oval office desk, left over from Clinton.


It was a code word for blowjob.


No, that was "kerfluffer"

You were close, though.
Hamhock
3/21/2006, 02:09 PM
that's a duvet :rolleyes:


actually, a duvet is a quilt.

You're thinking of a bed skirt. I think. :confused:

Somebody back me up here...
william_brasky
3/21/2006, 09:29 PM
this thread didn't cause the kerfuffle I had envisioned. damnit!