non-family-safe

[wh5mith]

Some time ago, NPR's "Car Talk" ran a "Maleness Quiz" which included "When is it proper to hug another man?"  The "correct" answer was "Only after he has hit a home run, and you are pounding his back hard enough to break a rib, providing both of you are wearing cups."
Bill

 
A brilliant casuist disproved every false generalization.  He is justly known lately.  Moreover, no pompous quibbler really said that useful verities were xenophobic yet zealous.


On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:48 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
 


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NPR reports on a singer whose video was removed by YouTube because it
showed him embracing another man.

But that's not the point.  The point is that the term used by YouTube was
"non-family-safe."

On other words, safe only for non-families.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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