ostentatious avoidance

[Peter A. McGraw]

"Ostentatious avoidance"?  Actually I think the poor fellow simply
misspoke.  What he MEANT to say was, "I want to offend everyone."

Peter Mc.

P.S. And just in case: :)

--On Friday, September 10, 2004 10:36 AM -0700 "Arnold M. Zwicky"
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

> from a Talk of the Town piece by Ben McGrath in The New Yorker,
> 9/13/04, about a young woman named Emily Hertzer, who has dedicated
> herself "to bringing civility and manners, everything that matters,
> back to America." (p. 32)  the piece was about her efforts at the
> recent RNC.  it (p. 34) ends with a report on someone else who was
> struggling not to offend:
> -----
> After Presdent Bush's speech, a group of conventioneers came upon a man
> selling "BUCK FUSH" T-shirts on the sidewalk.  Learning that they were
> Republicans, the vender [sic] reached into a backpack and pulled out a
> shirt that read "KUCK FERRY."  "I don't want to offend anyone," he
> explained.
> -----
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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