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OP In reply to:How some things change. I can remember hearing in the twenties a joke about a psychiatrist writing a letter to parents of a of a young lady telling them "she needed more social intercourse". His secretary got him into hot water by typing that as "sexual intercourse". Now that last word is not used for anything else.Imagine trying to tell that joke now.
No doubt when the girl's father read that he ejaculated "Good lord!" ejaculate: to utter suddenly and vehemently
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