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At a restaurant last year, a female companion said she needed to go 'make the lav smell of roses'. So: "Animals fart, men have flatulence, women smell of roses" Works for me.  the sunshine warrior ps. But then, she also used the word 'mincer' for a gay person, so I don't know how reliable her grasp of the idiom is...
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Animals fart, men have flatulence, women smell of roses Brilliant and definitive! Case is closed. P.S. I know gays who refer to themselves as "mincers" (and "queens"), so maybe your friend's grasp of idiom ain't that bad.
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My favourite gay man frequently refers to himself as "a homo," and sometimes as "a queer," which shocked me at first, as I have been carefully brought up to believe that these were perjorative terms.
However, he explained to me that he, and others of the gay community, were trying to rehabilitate the words, and to remove the perjorativity (??) from them as a tactic against homophobia.
I pointed out that it would just mean that other perjoratives would be conjured up, but he holds that the main thing is, "to keep the buggers on the run!" - which I thought was a neat way of turning yet another perjorative!
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rhu,
just a note of pedantry since you bring it up. the word you want is PEJorative, and it does take the form pejoration for the process of worsening.
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Thank you, tsuwm - I stand rightly corrected!  It looks as though I need to get my "Rs" out of it!
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Rhuby, you said: the most incredible flares, and lapels that make the suit dangerous to wear in high winds.
So, if you were lofted, then we could say Red (Rhub.) sails in(to) the sunset. Talk of getting your R's out! And never mind a spelling error, Sugar--we love you anyway.
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Since today (in my reading, anyway) seems to be a day of resurrected threads, I thought I'd do this one. Don't ask how I found it--too weird. (Oh, ok, I had it stored in my computer--but now have no idea why! )
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I just love these re-runs on the board. It would take forever to go back and read everything and by the time I did, I would be so far behind on reading the current posts. I want to know where all these people have gone. Maverick! belMarduk! Marty! Shanks! Fishonabike! Rhuby! Come back![sob]
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Dear consuelo: I'm not sure how RC will react to your post. He posted less than a week ago. But we would all enjoy his posting more often.
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