Church is "losing 40% of 16-24 year old members"

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

no offense to Sister Requiem as pooftahs are some of my favorite people.

What the hell is a "pooftah"? Am I correct to assume it is a term of endearment?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Requiem

What the hell is a "pooftah"? Am I correct to assume it is a term of endearment?

I thought it was a perversion of a gay person, but Goat writes his own script.

[Indy Coug]

"Poofter" a British/Australian term for a gay person.

[non sequitur]

Originally Posted by Requiem

What the hell is a "pooftah"? Am I correct to assume it is a term of endearment?

I don't have my OED handy, but I think it comes from the latin words "poof", meaning "butt", and "ter", meaning dripper.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

I don't have my OED handy, but I think it comes from the latin words "poof", meaning "butt", and "ter", meaning dripper.

<add the obligatory>...not that there is anything wrong with it.

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

I don't have my OED handy, but I think it comes from the latin words "poof", meaning "butt", and "ter", meaning dripper.

Thanks for the graphic clarification. Brother Goat - vir est nequam.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by Requiem

What the hell is a "pooftah"? Am I correct to assume it is a term of endearment?

You would be correct to make that assumption in certain locales, but here in God's country on the mean streets of SouthCentral Power County, ID it is safe to assume it is not a term of endearment. Redneck on the other hand....

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

I don't have my OED handy, but I think it comes from the latin words "poof", meaning "butt", and "ter", meaning dripper.

I'm going to hate myself for this but here is the OED entry for poofter:

poofter, n.1
DRAFT REVISION Dec. 2006
slang (orig. Austral.). derogatory.

Brit. /{sm}p{shtu}ft{schwa}/, /{sm}pu{lm}ft{schwa}/, U.S. /{sm}puft{schwa}r/ Forms: 18- pooftah, 19- poofdah, 19- poofter, 19- poufdah, 19- poufter, 19- pufter. [Arbitrarily extended form of POOF n.1]

A homosexual man; an effeminate or affected man.
Often used as a general term of abuse to a man.
1889 in Photogr. Descr. Darlinghurst (Sydney) Gaol 1888-9 (State Records, Kingswood, New S. Wales) 160. No. 4408, Carrie Swann, the female impersonator..Said to be a Pouftah. 1903 Truth (Sydney) 5 Apr. 5/6 It was the sort of talk that put the political ‘poofter's’ nose out of joint. 1910 S. E. O'BRIEN & A. G. STEPHENS Material for Dict. Austral. Slang 1900-10 (typescript), Pouf or poufter, a sodomite or effeminate man. 1941 J. E. BROOKES Thermopylae '41 in Oasis, ‘A load of bloody poufdahs!’ Thus he laid the ghost of brave Leonidas. 1953 T. A. G. HUNGERFORD Riverslake iii. 49 He hawked disgustingly and spat on the floor between his feet. ‘They want men in the unions, not poofters!’ 1961 P. WHITE Riders in Chariot IV. xi. 392 ‘They will tell you,’ she said, ‘that Norman is a pufter... Norm could not impress a woman even if he tried.’ 1973 A. BROINOWSKI Take One Ambassador v. 53 The feller's a bloody poofter. Queer's a four pound note. 1988 B. LEVIN in Times 22 Aug. 10/7 Come to think of it, Tchaikovsky was a long-haired poofdah. 2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 32 The southern pooftahs have also switched the rules to touch rugby.

COMPOUNDS

poofter bashing n. Austral. slang aggression, esp. physical assault, against male homosexuals.
1976 Telegraph (Brisbane) 21 Sept. 50/1 ‘*Poofter-bashing’ is a strong and blunt phrase, but the only way to describe the latest wave of discrimination against homosexual men and women in Brisbane. 2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 15 She said Hill and Teariki were part of a gang that, on February 27 while celebrating a co-offender's birthday in Altona, decided to go what they called ‘poofter bashing’.

poofter rorter n. [see RORTER n.] Austral. slang (now rare) a person who procures sexual partners for homosexual men.
1945 S. J. BAKER Austral. Lang. 123 A procurer for homosexuals is known as a *poofter rorter. 1961 P. WHITE Riders in Chariot IV. xi. 401 ‘You are a proper pufter rorter, Hannah!’ Reen had to remark, because she was a cow.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by pelagius

I'm going to has myself for this but here is the OED entry for poofter:

The fact that you have the OED entry available makes you are new number one geek. Thanks.

You outgeeked the geeks, and for Barbara, that's quite a task.