This way to the naked girls

Welcome to all stampeding over from Mr Wolcott's maison de web.  The posts in re: the matter of celebrity pulchritude Mr W directed your attention to are below.  You can find them by clicking or scrolling.  For those of you who prefer to click, here is your link to post number one, More naked actresses---because February is sweeps month, and here is your link to post number two, Because I can't resist the temptation to write about pretty young actresses getting naked, both full of high minded stuff about art and craft and the essence of beauty and all that, perfectly acceptable for mixed company I assure you.  The comments is where you'll find the really rugged action.

Regular readers and curious visitors will find SUNDAY and MONDAY's posts below after a leisurely scroll.

Also, since Mr W introduced the subject of the Wedding Crashers by giving it a good trashing and in one of my posts I say some kind things about one of the scenes and you might get the impression that Mr W and I disagree about the movie's worth, let me direct you to this post, The crash of the Wedding Crashers, in which you will see that, although not quite as chuffed by the film as the Sage of Vanity Fair, I had some piquant criticisms of that work of art.

Comments

[Fred MacMurray]

Doesn't "chuffed" mean excited?

[Lance]

Fred,

I always thought it meant annoyed. According to A.Word.A.Day, it can have either of two meanings---pleased and displeased, satisfied or annoyed---and so can be its own opposite. "I was chuffed to find him so chuffed," said Patrick Fitzgerald of Karl Rove.

So while Wolcott was chuffed by the whole movie, The Wedding Crashers, I was chuffed by Isla Fisher's nude scene.

[blue girl]

I am chuffed that Wolcott has never linked to me. What do I have to do? A nude podcast and then have Mannion write a high minded essay on it?

Knowing the chances of that happening, I fear my chuffedness is not going to go away any time soon.

[Linkmeister]

BG, how would one determine whether a podcast was, in fact, nude? Unless it was a video podcast, in which case wouldn't it be called a vlog?

[blue girl]

Interesting question, Linkmeister. But, I don't have to concern myself with such nit-picky details of that sort. I will have my people talk to your people and they can do lunch and discuss what to call it....*vlog* or whatever. Press releases will be sent out.

I am the star after all, and must concern myself with more important matters. Like making sure I get my beauty sleep and figuring out which is, indeed -- my best side.

[Night Bird]

Lance, you are such a sweet man! Thanks.

[Doug K]

I've always believed 'chuffed' to mean 'pleased, happy'.

Google brings this up, which made me giggle:
Pinter at 75: chuffed to his bollocks

Never seen the 'unhappy' sense of the word ? hm interesting. Both my English (OED) and American (Websters) dictionaries give it as 'pleased'. I think the Word-a-day quote may be an Australian outlier..

the opposite of 'chuffed' ? gutted, or maybe gobsmacked

[Lance]

Doug,

My Random House Dictionary (The whopping big one) has both definitions. My American Heritage Dictionary doesn't have either.

I used it the way I swear I remember Bertie Wooster using it, as in "Jeeves was a bit chuffed by my insisting on wearing the purple socks, but a chap has to assert himself sometimes."

But a Google search brought up mostly examples of it used in the sense of being pleased, although with a connotation of being pleased with oneself.

[Lance]

And here's someone else who is confused by chuffed. He went to his OED, and was either chuffed or not chuffed to find that both definitions were there.