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Subject:Re: Happy Egredior Day From:Hank Stanley <arjohns -at- ADNC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:07:09 -0800
At 10:08 AM 3/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I feel that sort of vulgarity is inappropriate to this or any other public
forum.
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>>>Teach a Latin phrase to someone new today.
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>And, always remember. . ."innuendo" is not an Italian suppository!
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As always, vulgarity is in the mind of the beholder which must certainly be
why I can't find one single bad or improper word anywhere in the sentence.
I wonder if anyone thought about that when they used it on Saturday Night
Live?
Hank Stanley arjohns -at- adnc -dot- com
The word artisan 70323 -dot- 2107 -at- compuserve -dot- com
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So we ought to use all the words we've got."
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Inherit the Wind - Act 1, scene II
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