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Maybe I'm missing the point here, but the things I find objectionable and have always considered euphemisms include:
Pre-owned
Custodial Engineer
Sanitation Engineer
And anything challenged...foliclely, mentally, motivationally, horizontally, economically, to name a few.
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Realestate salesmen can be quite clever in avoiding charges of false advertising. I wouldn't be surprised to see an ad for a Chick Sale mansion. Chick Sale being a long ago comedian who had a monopoly on jokes about the little house behind the big house. (There's another old-time euphemism).
The byproducts were removed by a "honey wagon". That's one more.
In WWII in martial arts training, the male gonads were chastely referred to as "the family jewels."
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Oh my gosh, I LOVE that poem!! PLEASE don't tell me it's just...it's just...about sex!?!? Oh, the joy and delight will be gone forever, for me...
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Damnation! It's like I just read it for the first time.
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the rock band from Minneapolis called The Replacements had a funny song about airline stewardesses called "Waitress in the sky"
Sanitation expert and a maintenance engineer
Garbage man, a janitor and you, my dear
I find some euphemisms for death to be pretty annoying. "He passed" has to be the worst. And yet some of them are funny, such as "He joined the majority."
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horses sweat
gentlemen perspire
ladies glow
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Don't know if this will clear things up, but think of the whole poem as a euphamism (or am I mixing this with metaphor) for a one-night stand.
Coleridge claimed that the visions in the poem actually occurred to him in a dream -- must we apply Freudian analysis?
(metaphor)
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tsuwm, I'm trying to recall whether that was a drug-induced dream (opium?).
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vertically challenged
Then there was the woman who wrote a newspaper column on issues affecting the disabled who once referred to them as the severely euphemized.
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"The severely euphemized" -- ah, brevity is the soul of wit.
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