"knock up" --usage

[Joel S. Berson]

This is certainly intended to be insulting (hardly needs to be said
of Sophia), and the pregnancy was premarital.

Joel

At 9/20/2005 05:24 AM, you wrote:
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>On 'Golden Girls,' Sophia is always remarking how Dorothy got
>'knocked up' by Stan.
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>"Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
>I'd say the guy was a runner-up for "Jerk of the Year."
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>Peter Mc.
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>--On Monday, September 19, 2005 1:26 PM -0700 FRITZ JUENGLING
>wrote:
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> > Recently I was at a church picnic. I was standing around with my wife
> > and several other people chatting about the usual stuff. One of the
> > women, about 30 years old, in the group was pregnant. A man, about 50,
> > came and joined the group and the first thing he said was, speaking to
> > the pregnant lady "Well, I see you got knocked up!" He thought he was
> > quite (in the American sense of the word) funny. I thought that remark
> > was extremely rude and inapropriate. My question, am I just a prude or
> > was this really just the remark of a jerk? Would appreciate any comments.
> > thanks,
> > Fritz
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