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#63672 04/05/02 03:55 PM
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"Ode to Four Letter Words", a lovely song, at http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kingcharles/Humor/ode-4.htm

of which there are many variations. With reference to mod-god's particular ... er, "point", see verse 6, ending with the caution:
But, friend, heed this warning, beware the affront
Of aping a Saxon: don't call it a [expletive deleted].





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Dear Keiva: Your AngloSaxon "c" word reminded me of place called "Love Canal" that was in news over ten years ago because of massive pollution. I wonder how that name was chosen: innocently, or slyly lasciviously?

Which reminds me of etymology of "lewd", which originally meant the way common folk talked.


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There's a place in Indiana called "French Lick." I've never been there, but it sounds delicious.


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isn't a place, it's a sentence.



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Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.


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back to that pleasure-dome:

I don't know how common this interpretation is, but my teacher last year explained it as a metaphor for artistic success. Xanadu, an idyllic, imaginative world, is Kubla Kahn's success--the domain he created. It relates to Coleridge's desire to be as successful as Wordsworth, to create his own pleasure dome, an artisitc legacy. There are many terms that relate to art, music or imagination: "damsel with a dulcimer", "symphony and song", "music loud and long" and "that dome in air."

Some hard rock type band made a song called Xanadu that relates to this interpretation.

But I guess it could just be about sex . . .


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"French Lick Indiana" sounds like a headline on the sports page describing a contest which the Hoosiers lost. Then again I am a Kentucky fan, and IU went farther/further [there it is again!) than UK this year, so I shouldn't poke too much fun. Besides, here in Kentucky we have a state park called "Big Bone Lick State Park." I kid you not. Check it out at:

http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/bigbone.htm




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Are actually places where natural salt (primarily NaCl) occurs in the ground and where animals come to lick the salt up.



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And the game laws in many states make it illegal to put out salt block licks to entice deer, even though deer are getting to be a nuisance, dropping Lyme disease ticks where small children acquire them.


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TEd's point is in fact precisely the origin of the name of French Lick, Indiana (which, as sparteye doubtless already knows, is the hometown of Larry Bird).


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