and how about, "better to be pissed off than pissed on" ? /s/ tuco bonno; Graduate, College of Conflict Management; University of SouthEast Asia; "I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! "
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, 24 September, 2013 08:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) Ok, I will bite, what about being 'pissed off' Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:17 AM, DASDBILL2 <dasdbi...@comcast.net> wrote: > > An alternative to Bowdlerizing a word or phrase that is controversial is to > acronym [1] it. E.g., now we may begin using PC in addition to PKB to > describe some others' posts. Or, in a rare moment of non-puerile thinking, > maybe even our own. > > Bill Fairchild > Franklin, TN > > [1] Theoretically, any given word can be verbed. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:03:27 AM > Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) > > I had hoped I could resist contributing to this thread; alas, > apparently not. > >> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:29:40 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >> >> David, >> >> No. I in fact regret the lingering influence of 17th-century >> puritanism on English usage. In, say, Italian the cognate verb, >> pisciare, has always been usable even in what used to be called >> polite society. Preoccupation with avoiding four-letter words in >> English has had very unfortunate effects. The forced choice between >> sounding like a medical textbook or a guttersnipe in talking about >> the obvious topics is disagreeable. > But I have a fairly clear recollection (but can't find in the archives > here; perhaps it was ASSEMBLER-LIST) of an instance where you > chastised a writer who failed to "bowdlerize" some content. > > (Perhaps, but not exactly, ASSEMBLER-LIST, 2012-02-12, wherein you > elected to supply a "bowdlerized" translation from German.) > > However, David was playing not on your puritanism, but on your > erudition, in my perception. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
