Meant to add, thanks for your initial comment,
and also for wanting to make sure I didn't
take it as some kind of insult.

If you have a Webcam, you ought to try taking
a bunch of shots of yourself sometime. I think
you'd find it an intriguing process.

--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" 
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > Judy, I just looked up "bemusement" and it didn't mean what I 
> thought
> > it did!  I thought it meant "quietly amused" which is what your
> > picture conveyed to me.  As I'm sure you know the word I used 
means
> > "confusion resulting from failure to understand".  I'm glad I 
didn't
> > misunderstand a worse word or this could have been a lot funnier!
> 
> Gee, my dictionary lists three meanings for "bemused,"
> the third being--
> 
> "to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement"
> 
> --which is what I understood you to mean. In fact,
> I confess I didn't know it meant "confused"; I 
> can't recall ever encountering it in that sense.
> 
> "Wry or tolerant amusement" is pretty accurate,
> I think, but *at myself* taking my own picture,
> which I found to be a very strange exercise
> indeed.
>


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