I'm not a fan of meetings. They take too long and accomplish too little. People are meant to talk with each other. They're meant to work together. They aren't meant to work together by talking. They especially aren't meant to plan how to work together while working at talking.
A staff meeting tonight. Six women discussing upcoming sewing events. Six women discussing scheduling. Six woman looking at each other and wondering who is an ally and who is something else.
I must entertain myself during meetings. If I didn't, I would become infuriated and obviously angry. Some individuals are more irritating than others, and those would surely garner my wrath. In my attempts at creating small diversions, I drew pictures of Spring and Sprocket. I drew pictures of Bobsie and Midgie, the two dogs that the woman sitting next to me owns. I wrote down stuff that people said. BoPeep said, "Okay! Let's conquer the schedule!" (We attacked the schedule, but which of us was vanquished is yet undetermined.) And then another woman said, "Butt naked."
I wrote it down to remind myself to ask, "Isn't it 'buck naked' rather than 'butt'?" And so I looked it up. Here's what I found.
The standard expression is “buck naked,” and the contemporary “butt naked” is an error that will get you laughed at in some circles. However, it might be just as well if the new form were to triumph. Originally a “buck” was a dandy, a pretentious, overdressed show-off of a man. Condescendingly applied in the U.S. to Native Americans and black slaves, it quickly acquired negative connotations. To the historically aware speaker, “buck naked” conjures up stereotypical images of naked “savages” or—worse—slaves laboring naked on plantations. Consider using the alternative expression “stark naked.”
So the site this is from is interesting. It's an on line version of a book by a guy named Paul Brians. His book is called Common Errors in English Useage. He has a gigantic list of "errors" that I would sometime like to peruse to find out which parts of my vocabulary betray my early upbringing with my non-human family. (It's likely that the monkey grunts give it away more than any grammatical faux pas.)
But let's all learn how to correct our grammar! So at staff meetings we won't be caught buck naked or with our pants down.