Heard on the Olympics broadcast

[Wilson Gray]

At UC Davis, I once heard a female classmate say that she "_couldn't
get it up_ to go across the street" from her dorm to the classroom
building.

-Wilson

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> I heard, in a movie televised a few days ago, a woman complain
> that the cold was "freezing [her] nuts off."
> I thought she it was an odd turn of phrase, but perhaps she
> was an Olympian athlete, or a wannabe.
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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Heard on the Olympics broadcast
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> Karch Karalyi, commenting upon the American womens's beach-volleyball team:
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> "Her partner, [Nicole Branagh], is a real _stud_!"
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>
> I'm truly amazed and greatly pleased that the campaign to mess with
> Sasquatch, as it were, and erase the last few traces of inherent
> genderism from the English language has begun to bear such delicious
> fruit.
>
> Perhaps now is the time to project the campaign outward to such
> languages as Russian. I can recall how shocked and disgusted we were
> when, at the Army Language School, there were revealed to us such
> examples of genderism as the fact that one is not permitted by the
> grammar of Russian to say
>
> *Ona (= Feminine) khoroshaia (= Feminine) chelovek "She [is a] nice person"
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> Rather, one *must* say:
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> Ona khoroshii (= Masculine) chelovek (= Masculine)
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> despite the fact that the subject is Feminine! What kind of shit is that?!
>
> -Wilson
> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
>  -Sam'l Clemens
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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