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theMilum said Quote:
Hey Nightotter; get your kicks on route sickly-six.
And not on this forum where people care little about turds. 
What-ho! What gives old scout? Sensitive type? Re-examine the evidence Milum, you silly thing. Considering the vastness of the English language and all its glorious gritty nastiness, turd is hardly among the most notorious, what?
I was interested in PURE being used as a word for dog refuse. A little irony came my way when I first read of its Victorian usage because I usually use the word in a very different way. When input was given by those who were not as police-minded as you we discovered and we learned.
And, I feel, that my 'p.s' was also on-topic for this forum. The word "owner" is the point, not turd. If one were writing a serious (legal) paper on the rights of pets and their masters and how they interact with the general public, WORDING would be very important. I'm sorry that I didn't sanitize, what now seems to be, the offensive word.
Can you at least point out how I used the word gratuitously?
If this subject has offended the majority of you, I will decamp and leave you to your wordy forum (abridged edition).
pip pip
The Hon. N Otter.
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Don't go! Just think about what you have stirred up with this new (at least to me) definition of pure. Consider just one advertisement that will never be seen the same again: Ivory Soap-- 99 and 44/100ths percent PURE!
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Indeed TEd. If one considers the unkind association now levied upon the Orange Juice market, I am guilty as charged. I have made pure, impure, and visa-versa. I can see how one's moral trinitrotoluol might be touched off by this fancy-pants exchange of definitions.
(my hyphen has run amok!)
N. Otter, Esq.
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Oh, pooh. There's no need to leave.
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Oh, pooh. There's no need to leave.
tsk tsk, zed. Pooh isn't an otter, he's a bear. (unless things are different in Canada!  )
Night, pay you no mind to themilum. He just needs getting used to -- took me several years. Stick around: have you voted in Hogwash yet?
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I have, thank you. 
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