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Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha.
I remember that article from Vanity Fair, and I don't really ever read Vanity Fair. It made quite an impression. Erk.
Didn't it? That plushie guy was totally creepy. I still don't blame all the furries for avoiding him.
My boyfriend wants to know if they allow interspecies fuzzie fucking. I told him he was very strange. rb
1. i first heard about plushies on an MTV special.
2. i used to call my ex's cats the 'plushies' cause they were so... plush (himalyans).
3. i love that your kids hear the whole (hole? i couldn't help it..sorry) conversation including "boning a beanie baby.." but you still have to spell f-u-c-k. i get the premise, but...i'm sure that's part of the implicit in the humor in the post. i'm noting it here, obtusely.
The first time I heard of this was on a CSI episode. I didn't think it was a real thing, I just thought they made it up for TV.
I SAW that episode! It was funny...I mean disturbing but funny....
Wow. I'm pretty plush, and I thought that was a bad thing.
Jim Wilbur, the drummer from Superchunk, used to work at a used book store in Durham, NC, and would pick random words to mean "cool," and try to promulgate them. I can't remember the last one he was trying to foist, but it was something like "pullover."
"Man, the Decembrists' album is totally pullover."
Interesting that it took plushie talk to bring Dave back! How are you? How's the job?
i like pullover. that makes sense. i don't really like this 'sick' business the kids are doing these days. i like 'hot' and 'tight', but i guess that's maybe subject matter for another day.
my made up word is smussy. i don't know that it means 'cool' so much as nice. soft. comfortable. adj.:smussy. v.:to smuss. n.:smussio.
Do you guys actually talk like that in front of your kids? sick...
Do your kids know what Furries and Plushies are, Bug? Mine don't. It makes talking above their heads a lot easier. Not to mention the fact that they're babies.
I understand the need to be careful with language in front of 4 year olds. I totally do. But I'm fearful that Alex is simply going to learn how to *spell* fuck really well for anyone who wants to here. Kind of like my kid learned to ask for c-a-k-e when he was 3.
Heh, good point, Eve.
Plushie/furry/f-u-c-k conversations aren't really the norm in our house, though, hard as that may be to believe. The challenge is talking about business-related things in front of him or over the phone, which sometimes has to happen. I'm frankly more concerned with him learning to spell v-i-b-r-a-t-o-r, but there are times when it has to happen. We've tried calling them by their actual names that are given by the companies we get them from, but as frog can tell you, that's often worse.
At my house, we talk about the vibrator, only we pronounce it the Russian way, vee-BRA-tor, with heavily rolled r's. It lends a glamorous touch, I think, and makes it hard for kids to say. (The "BRA" is pronounced like the garment.)
There is an enormous factory on the banks of the Neva in Petrograd and it has these gigantic letters that spell out "VIBRATOR" along the roof of the factory. For some dumbass reason, I never took a photo of it.
Having encountered furries at conventions for 15-some-odd years now (not willingly, I think they're all more damaged than usual), I'd learned that "plushie" was a sex toy in the shape of an animal...with orifices, usually. There are people who make them.
So, when the NeoPets people start calling their soft toy merchandise "plushies", brr hrr hrrr. And young funny animal fans (who just like funny animals or animals characters, and not in a sexual way) call themselves "plushies". Bleeeeeergh.
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