confusery

: It : serves to make all of you at your institution of learning appear : buffoonish (also British, I believe). Nah, I speak English, and quite well, really. How's -that- for confusery?

1996 April 7, Andrew S. Gurk Damick, “Les steps down, tired of losing!”, in triangle.sports (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026

image overload here-- perhaps image confusery as well. And the spleen is one organ that has gone down the pipe since the 18th century-- at least in terms of being a significant image. That, of course is a general comment. More specifically, the correlation of lip, sink, ship, spleen and retribution are a loss to me (besides the fact that they all sound quite nice together with all th ecombinations of small I's, n's, and plosives like "p" and "b."

1999 July 6, Ryan Deschamps, “Strange Device / K”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026

Which reminds me of an ongoing conversation I'm having elsewhere, with someone who describes her location as the middle of Canada. We're trying to work out why we only seem to be three hours apart. 'Tis all this daylight saving stuff, and BST, and other such confusery, which vaguely leads back to looking at a pair of watches - one for real time and one for GMT. Perhaps even three watches - one for whatever the time is in the middle of Canada.

1999 August 11, Geep, “Error message”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026

I can equally understand God's perspective as well as the Objectivists - I don't have to choose here. Use whatever lingo you like, just tell me which it is and I will try to follow. But this is all a red herring to my argument because I bypass all this interminable dispute about different truth definitions and focus on facts, and facts cannot be wiped out by confusery.

2004 April 21, tucsonjerry, “A Different Way of Talking”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026

Mebbe if George comes back next week John'll have figured out his new bear test. C'mon, you're not gonna bear (oh gawd) witness and sign (teehee) on to, but rather object (sheesh) to this unbearable major (as in Ursa Major) confusery, right?

2005 December 26, vonvegas, “Hey Gordon.”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026