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You stay out of this, Juan. This is between Alex and me.
Huh? When did I pass thru the chopped liver paté machine on this here thread?
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Well that's true and I didn't mean to sound like I was taking umbrage over it. It isn't necessarily her comment alone, so much as it is a general trend of prescriptive language modification that irks the crap out of me. As far as book titles go, it is catchy, and is both familiar and new. I just get tired of people who strike me as essentially superficial and stupid trying to make me feel like the world is divided into 2 groups: right-minded people who do everything they suggest vs. evil nazi-racist-sexist-bastards who are out to enslave the world. In three generations when everyone's a vegetarian, we'll all be reviled by the younger crowd because we once flushed the toilet more than once a week, drove cars, ate meat and allowed people to ride motorcycles if they felt like it.
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the chopped liver paté machine
Get with the program, Juan. It's minced birdseed now. Chopped liver paté is like so last night.
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Sure, tsuwm, I'd love to read the book...I love good history!  Just to keep it simple: if Jefferson, Washington, et al had been women and were The Founding Mothers I'd have absolutely no problem with that. However, I couldn't abide The Founding Sisters for all the same reasons.
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we'll all be reviled by the younger crowd because
Somewhere there must be a middle ground between accusing them of being evil incarnate because they worked within a system that was interlaced with slavery and treating them as though they were simon pure and above such tawdry matters.
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My main complaint all this time is I resent self-righteous busibodies who presume to tell me how I should talk, as if I were an insensitive, ignorant dolt who needs re-education. As far as I am concerned, the people who think that adopting new phrases actually makes anything any better are either condescending or jingoistic or both.gee whiz folks, let's step back a bit a re-read: all she did was refer to another book that speaks about the same topic. there was no PC agenda to change what the developers of our country are called. I think it's interesting to put their lives in the context of brothers; arguing, struggling, caring deeply about what they were doing, and more than likely about each other. edit: sorry, I was writing my reply while all this other good stuff was going on.. I apologize for being a slow typist... I started typing after WO'N's chopped paté post...
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And should we change the phrase "grandfathered in" to "grandbrothered in"?...just a thought. 
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Get with the program, Juan. It's minced birdseed now. Chopped liver paté is like so last night.Yeahbut®, whattid birdfeed ever do to you, she's one of our finest new members! Therefore, from now on (or for a while, at least) I'm opting for, "What am I? Stewed petunias!!?"
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>whattid birdfeed ever do to you?
it's birdseed®!!
-joe birdseed
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it's birdseed®!!Of course it is...I just wanted to see who would be the first to take the trouble to point that out for us.  tswum, you win!!! Anyhoo, birdseed is birdfeed, so... not mincing any words here
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