spaz and Tiger Woods

[Wilson Gray]

David, is your houseguest familiar with "Fawlty Towers"? From time to time,
the sign, "Fawlty Towers," would be "anagrammatized," so to speak. On one of
the shows, the anagram read, "Flowery Twats." This was back in the '70's,
but I'm still trying to recover frrom the shock. ;--)
"Spastic" and "cripple" are taboo, but "twat" is okay?! "Ssup wit dat?!" as
Ali G (or whatever his name is) might ask.

-Wilson

On 4/12/06, David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Our English houseguest says that "spaz" [spastic] is very taboo--not
> used in polite company ... like referring to someone as a cripple [her
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