"uterus" an indecorous word? ("slut" in the news)

[Darla Wells]

Reminds me of that classic song "Camel Toe" by the group Fanny Pack from a
few years ago:

"Walking down the street, something caught my eye,
A growing epidemic, that really ain’t fly.
This middle aged lady, I gotta be blunt,
Her spandex biker shorts were creeping up the front.

I could see her uterus. Her pants was too tight.
She mustn’t own panties, there were none in sight.
She walked right by, the poor woman didn’t know,
She had a frontal wedgie, a Cameltoe."


I  would say 'uterus' is kind of indecorous there.
Darla



2011/7/8 Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>

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> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > Mason's public behavior as a member of the bar, in front of cameras,
> > under those circumstances, strikes me as a wee bit remarkable
> > and (nowadays) yawningly abhorrent.
>
> Yesterday, I saw a story claiming that a complaint had been filed
> against Cheney Mason. But the following excerpt from another article
> today provides a different perspective:
>
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> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/caylee-anthony/os-casey-anthony-cheney-mason-finger-20110707,0,802233.story
>
> Disbarred attorney's 'complaint' about Cheney Mason not under Bar review
>
> Cheney Mason flipped off a photographer and grabbed himself at an
> Orlando restaurant after client Casey Anthony was found not-guilty of
> murder and other charges.
>
> By Anika Myers Palm, Orlando Sentinel
> 1:30 p.m. EDT, July 8, 2011
>
> A disbarred Coral Gables attorney and activist with a reputation for
> making nuisance filings to the Florida Bar said today that he would
> file a complaint against Casey Anthony attorney Cheney Mason for
> making a lewd gesture after Mason's high-profile clients was found not
> guilty of murder charges Tuesday.
>
> John B. Thompson said in a complaint addressed to the Bar and released
> to the Orlando Sentinel that Mason violated Bar rules for "maintaining
> the integrity of the profession."
>
> A Florida Bar representative said the organization had not received
> Thompson's complaint and that the South Florida man has been disbarred
> and can never reapply to practice law in the state.
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Tangentially related:
> >
> > Shortly after the verdict, Tot Mom attorney Cheney Mason was photographed
> > prominently and gleefully giving the finger to a mob of anti-Tot Mom
> > protesters outside the restaurant, across from the court house, where the
> > defense team was partying down, high-fiving, jumping for joy, etc.  Can't
> > blame 'em, right? Everybody loves a winner!
> >
> > I can remember the minor scandal when Red Sox pitcher Ike DeLock was
> tossed
> > from a game (ca1959) and, IIRC, suspended, for making what was the _New
> York
> > World Telegram and Sun_ called "an obscene gesture." I remember because I
> > wanted to know what "obscene gesture" meant, and I had Ike on a baseball
> > card. In fact, it was probably two years before I discovered the
> > explanation.
> >
> > Mason's public behavior as a member of the bar, in front of cameras,
> under
> > those circumstances, strikes me as a wee bit remarkable and (nowadays)
> > yawningly abhorrent.
> >
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:36 AM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Democrat chastised for saying 'uterus' on House floor
> >>
> >> Perhaps they would have preferred that he had broken stone nasty on
> >> their asses and gone totally four-letter Anglo-Saxon with
> >>
> >> _womb_.
> >>
> >> Youneverknow.
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