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Curses and Japes (archive)
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Posted by Max Fretter (NZ 87 735i) on February 04, 2001 at 12:12:24:

In Reply to: Swearing, a habit of the past. posted by guysimpson on February 04, 2001 at 09:23:33:

Thou art a knave and a blaggard sir, and should know better than to question ones peers in their choice of rambuctious utterances.

I for one will follow development from this juncture with utmost diligence - how dare they think they mayst corrupt, befoul and besmirch the exchange of learned discourse such as between men of letters such as ourselves?

A Pox on them, I say.

PS: I always liked the approach of Joeseph Banks (botanist to Captain Cook, first botanist in NZ so lots of plants named by him - he swore in either Greek or Latin; some of the plant names are more indicative of their smells than you'd first think....


Just came off the new mini board and there is new software being tested which will input [censored] for every naughty word listed in the post. So now everyone will have to read 19th century literature so we can be suggestive and curse elegantly. Lady Chatterly's Lover and the Cantebury Tales comes to mind for anyone desiring to move to the head of the class.

Guy




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