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Dear AS: It seems inconsistent that you accuse me of lewdness, and then defend lewdness. And " Honi soit qui mal y pense" referred to a lady's garter, not her pubic wig. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html
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Dear Sparteye: Why do you continue to prefer an obscenity to my suggestion of "merikins" ?Dear Uncle Bill: Probably because she knows that it practically guarantees a response from you. 
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Dear Rapunzel: Maybe she was disappointed that I did not make a post about her "lick of chocolate penises".
And I resent some sly anal orifice having made an obscenity accepted as a slang term for American.
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But I hope that it (losing a sense) never comes to that, for me or anyone here!Hear, Hear (and Aye Aye) to that. I would hate to lose any of my senses. The one that gives me the least deep intoxicating pleasure and which I think is easiest to substitute in everday life and social situations is speech. And at least I'd have a valid excuse for grunting when my wife asked me my opinion on what she should wear to go out for dinner . Rod
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Um, Dr. Bill. This handy phrase from the language that dare not speak itself referred neither to pubic wigs nor to garters but to the attitudes of those who would see evil where there is none.
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(Now we'll see who the true "lingua"philes are
Sweet musick,
Are you ready to take your count, now, Sweetie?
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The story goes that the motto comes from an episode where one of the Countess of Salisbury's garters fell off at a court ball, and the monarch of the time, Edward III, picked it up and put it on his own leg, uttering the immortal words as a rebuke to the courtiers who were laughing at the embarrassed countess.
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Neat, wow! Thanks for the informative link.
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