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>almost halted when tsuwm pointed out...
just like to say that... wasn't trying to stop a thread... merely pointing out that this usage should be muzzled...
joe muttered haltingly.
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joe muttered haltinglymore muffled laughter from stage left! 
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oh i didn't think you were--- i had come across the word, but had forgotten it--well, its not a word you normally use in conversation--well not one i usually use in converstion and when i read the defination... well i felt for faldage, and didn't quite know what to say, and was-- (congratuation were in order-- an i failed to notify you--) stunned into silence!
i actually came across the word on my son's web page--unfortunately no longer running-- it was www.qz.to-- and got underway when congress- in defiance of first amendment tried to ban "pornography" from the net...
qz was a free X rated web page...
occationally a young whipper-snapper would blush when they found out i was familiar with the site-- and stunned when i spoke proudly of my son's efforts... somehow, they expected some one their mothers age to be an old foggy!
do you remember the song from Hair? (why do these words sound so nasty?) most of the "nasty words" were new to me, and such fun looking up! (but i was so young then!)
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of troy said: i read the defination..well i felt for faldage
I certainly did not know that meaning. When I use that word I mean it in the sense that was referred to in the comments on Lyndon Johnson. I'll try not to use it on this board due to the large number of people for whom it does have that unfortunate connotation, but I doubt if I'll stop using it in situations in which I feel the audience is exclusively US'ns. For us it does carry a connotation of raw frontier England ain' our home country mystique.
I did not feel shot down from tsuwm's revelation, simply informed.
I apologize for any offense I may have unwittingly caused, but it's a little like the problem encountered by speakers of one form or another of South American Spanish using words that are totally acceptable in one country and grossly impolite in others.
PS
Ms. of troy. I just recently discovered that you are Herakles' half sister.
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Our own Excellent Chinese Gooseberry says: 42 ... grok ... I've heard of mixed metaphors.
Does this qualify as a metaphor? Seems to me to be nothing more than multiple classical references.
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