Citations:confuzzle

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• 1993 May 19, Stephen Kellogg, from cedarville.edu, “Re: God and cookies and rock'n'roll”, rec.music.christian, Usenet

  Why is it that the same people that accuse Petra of not being "real" rock music are also the same people that accuse them of being replicas of big-time rock bands? It confuzzles me...

• 1996 March 22, Gary Faber, “Danny Kaye (was Re: CORFLU 13 Update)”, rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet

  No, I was just confuzzled. You are absolutely correct, and I was absolutely wrong.

• 1996 September 22, Colin F. Reynolds, from Chesterfield (UK), “Re: Don't Write For one Browser...”, comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Usenet

  In my experience, there's a fine line to be walked between giving the client enough information on the one hand and overdosing him/her on the other, to the point where they're so confuzzled they can't make a decision :(

• 1997 August 25, Christian Conti, from wfu.edu, “Re: What's the most disturbing movie you've seen?”, alt.cult-movies, Usenet

  I was already in a religious conflict when I saw this film, and it only served to confuzzle me even more.

• 1997 November 15, D. Jean Cooper, “Re: Mistake or twin?”, rec.arts.comics.elfquest, Usenet

  That's Richard for ya. Confuzzle the issue all the way around. Personally, I think it was a mistake and he's trying to cover for it. <G>

• 1999 June 19, Ivy Saris Formlocke, “Re: Sleepy Hollow pics in VanityFair”, alt.gothic.fashion, Usenet

  I live near Sleepy Hollow. We used to go to Wahington Irving's house on school trips. Sunnyside, I think. All the big old houses have funky names that confuzzle me. Oh well.

• 2000 March 17, Matthew Sutton, from vips.com.au, “MY ASP SOLUTION”, interbase.public.general, Usenet

  To get around the whole ADO connection, well that one still confuzzles me. But what my COM object uses is an ODBC Direct workspace, which can connect [to the] Interbase Database.

• 2000 May 2, Dave Proctor, from ozemail.com.au, “Re: Rule question - kicking for goal.”, aus.sport.aussie-rules, Usenet

  It always confuzzles players when that happens - the braindead blows his whistle all of a sudden, and they all look around. Good for a larf amongst those who know what is happening. :-)

• 2001 March 10, Michael Chilson, “A newbie's update (upgrading KDE)”, alt.os.linux.caldera, Usenet

  Now I am working on upgrading the KDE window manager, and the README doesn't offer any additional assistance and the group's FAQ slightly confuzzles me.

• 2002 January 12, Helen Deborah Vecht, from zetnet.co.uk, “Re: Toilet paper”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet

  We went to Llandrindod Wells but said town are xabja [sic.] as just Llandrindod in Railwayspeak. We wooden wantta [wouldn't want to] confuzzle ticketdroid, wwd we?

• 2002 February 16, Thomas Rushton, from totalise.co.uk, “Re: .”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet

  I've lived here for ooh a coupla decades now, and I still can't find my way around the city centre. I think they change the one way system every half a fortnight, just to keep us all confuzzled.

• 2002 September, Tom Halfhill, “ATI to nVida: Gotcha!”, Maximum PC, ISSN 1522-4279, page 12

  A videocard that’s limited to simple integer calculations will round this up to an even 2, creating imprecision that will confuzzle the rest of the math down the pipeline

• 2005, James P. Caher and John M. Caher, Personal Bankruptcy Laws for Dummies, For Dummies (publisher), →ISBN, page 224

  If you neglected to file a return, filed it late, submitted a fraudulent return, or otherwise evaded taxes, you've really confuzzled things.

• 2007 March, Nicola Denzey, “Biblical Allusions, Biblical Illusions: Hollywood Blockbuster and Scripture”, SBL Forum, volume 5, number 3, Society of Biblical Literature [1]

  Those who did see it were patently confused by it. Representative comments on internet message boards for Frailty include: […] "I am totally confuzzled."

• 2007 April 1, “Prize patrol: top 10 secrets to winning swag from GL!”, Girls’ Life Magazine, Monarch Avalon, Inc.

  Feeling confuzzled about how to enter (or win!) GL's daily giveaways? Here's the fine print.

• 2008, Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Werewolf, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 12

  Where she’d ever gotten the idea that a bully like Nina could sell makeup to women left her confuzzled. For a split second, Marty doubted herself.

• 2008, Bruce Henricksen, After the Floods, Lost Hills Books, →ISBN, page 118

  “This ball just landed in my yard,” he said. “You know anything about that?”

  “Confuzzles me,” I said. “ […] I didn’t know baseballs drop out of the sky.”