Oftenly

[Wilson Gray]

Good one, Charlie! I know it in the form, "Do you want me to give you
a whipping?" But your point is taken.

[OT. As a child, I was spanked only once and I recall it only too
well. Those who claim that it's all right to strike a child, as long
as you only spank it on the arse are, IMO, sick child-abusers.]

-Wilson

On 8/24/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> My favorite perverse parentism is "Do you want a spanking?"
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> Somewhere in the world there's a masochistic child who doesn't understand the nature of rhetorical questions . . . .
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:32:58 -0700
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >
> >A few years ago there was an evangelistic billboard campaign around these parts that had one memorable board that, IMHO, transcends creed. In white print on a solid black back:
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> >  "Don't Make Me Come Down There!" --God.
> >
> >  JL
> >
> >Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> In ordinary, colloquial speech, I am accustomed to hearing only "I've told you _time and time again_." It's one of those "mother-talk" speech-forms such as, "your head is hard as a rock," "talking to you is like talking to a wall," "if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times," "don't make me have to come get you," "I thought I told you to clean up this mess," "I'm going to beat you till I can't see you," "can't we have anything nice around here?"
> >etc., etc., etc.
> >
> >Not being a parent, I've never had occasion to use these myself, but
> >I've heard these and more all too many times.
> >
> >-Wilson
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