Twats

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I have a friend we used to call a teutonic twit forty years ago. God only
knows where we got this.

Page Stephens

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> From: Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET>
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> Date: 4/13/2006 10:26:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Twats
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> Apparently my email filter (Eudora) knows about twats -- Charlie's
> message rated 3 peppers (tops) on its hotness scale.  Unless the
> offending word was "nun".
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> But someone in the censorship hierarchy for "Blazing Saddles" didn't
> know squat about twat either.  In a theatre viewing I saw early after
> release, Hedley Lamarr called Lili Von Shtupp "you Teutonic
> twat".  Nor, I suspect, did the audience; I didn't hear a single gasp
> or objection.   I did not hear that in later viewings. (But my later
> viewings were all on TV; I don't know what eventuated in theatres.)
>
> Joel
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> At 4/13/2006 08:36 AM, you wrote:
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> >Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> >Subject:      Twats
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> >I suppose everybody knows about Browning's "owls and bats,/
> >Cowls and twats" (in Pippa Passes)--where the poet
> >apparently thought a twat was a (visible) part of a nun's
> >regalia.  Those English!
> >
> >--Charlie
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> > >Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:34:23 -0400
> > >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > >Subject: Re: spaz and Tiger Woods
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> > >David, is your houseguest familiar with "Fawlty Towers"?
> > From time to time,
> > >the sign, "Fawlty Towers," would be "anagrammatized," so to
> >speak. On one o=
> > >f
> > >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
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