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Re: Banned words - I have to say I think sometimes you have to accept that a language evolves and that words acquire new meanings.
Re: "9-11" - I don't really see this abbreviation as disrespectful. I sometimes want to refer to the event without using a long phrase such as "the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center." Unless or until this event has a "title," what's wrong with saying "9-11" or "September 11"?
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Well, at least he wouldn't pass through Blue Balls.
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Well, at least he wouldn't pass through Blue Balls.Curiously though, within 10 miles of Intercourse, PA, you will find: Bird-in-hand, Paradise, Bareville, Goodville, and Blue Ball! Nice to meet ya' TEd!
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Well, at least he wouldn't pass through Blue Balls
Or Red Dick, Kentucky
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Here are the American Dialect Society's choices for Words of the Year for 2001: 1. Most Outrageous assoline Methane used as a fuel 2. Most Euphemistic daisy cutter Bomb used by US Air Force 3. Most Likely to Succeed 9-11 Terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 4. Most Useful—A Tie facial profiling Videotaping a crowd to identify criminals and terrorists & second-hand speech Overheard cell-phone conversation 5. Most Creative shuicide bomber Terrorist with bomb in shoes 6. Most Unnecessary impeachment nostalgia Longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era 7. Least Likely to Succeed Osamaniac Woman sexually attracted to Osama bin Laden 8. Most Inspirational Let's roll! Let us take action! (words of Todd Beamer) 9. WORD OF THE YEAR 9-11(and its equivalents) There's more at: http://www.americandialect.org/
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What do you say to someone from Climax?
"do you come here often?"
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What do you say to someone from Climax?
"do you come here often?"Duncster --ohmigawd!  Hey--that might be a good place to open the American market for musk sticks... 
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Blue Balls was on the TV Monday-- Jay Leno has a feature "Headlines" with curious headlines from around the world..
Turns out the Blue Balls Fire Dept was having a Fund Raiser, and invited people to come to
Meat Bingo.
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Meat Bingo??
I don't know much about the Bingo board, but could the leader possibly call out...."O-69"?
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for more than 30 years we've been subjected to this negative-positive abomination
Yeah, about 308 more than 30 years, if Merriam-Webster is to be believed.
Somehow disfranchise sounds a little too sparse for me.
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