No problems here. Not in a flap or a fluff or a ruff-le. Cheers, Jill On Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Mark Weiss wrote: > I wasn't being confrontational. I thought that Jill had used another > term for the fluffer. When I fluff up my pillows it never occurs to me > that I'm doing something of questionable legality. > > At 05:39 PM 3/13/2006, you wrote: >> On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Mark Weiss wrote: >> >>> No, that was fluff. A fluff girl is a fixture of porno movie sets. >>> It's her job the keep the male actors alert between takes. >>> >>> Ruffled feathers refer to annoyance. >> >> >> That's one sense of the word, Mark, but hardly the only >> one. Another refers to the way birds do what you want >> to indicate they're doing. >> _______________________________________________________ Jill Jones Latest books: Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask] Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press) http://www.wildhoneypress.com web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/ blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/