adjective "Christian"

[Wilson Gray]

On May 19, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Rex W. Stocklin wrote:

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> At 4:48 AM -0700 5/17/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> Takes all kinds, don't it ? It's handy to find spiritual sanction to
>> do exactly what you want to do anyway.
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> The problem is the truly spiritual are not to blame. Point your
> fingers at the sanctimonious; the contemptuous, dodgy, arrogant
> religiously correct; the disingenuous social "Christians" who play
> the part for image (their bourgeois burlesque maligns the whole deal
> for those of genuine faith*)
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>> What's "bofos" ?  The Firesign Theatre LP was "I Think We're All
>> BOZOS on This Bus" (1971).
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> buttfuckers, a play on the Firesigner's most choice work.

Damn!  And here I thought that a friend of mine, a woman of impeccable
taste, was the only person on earth to use that term as a euphemism
with the meaning of "buttfuck-! This hurts almost as much as the
laughter that I received when I let it be known that I had invented the
term, "pimpmobile." Sigh! ;-)

-Wilson

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> I have  no etymology, but we used to use it WAY back as early as
> 1974, when I was a frosh at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Also
> there's this:
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> <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bofo&r=f>
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> The grass is always greener where the sun don't shine,
> Lexy,
> Fishers, IN
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