[Ads-l] RES: Will differential treatment _never_ end?

[David Daniel]

I was once introduced to a guy named Richard. I said, so, are you Rick or
Dick? He said, I'm Richard. Turned out, he was a dick.
DAD

Enviada em: quarta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2017 05:06
Para: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Assunto: Re: Will differential treatment _never_ end?

Poster:       W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Will differential treatment _never_ end?
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     I know several guys that still hang onto their Dicks. You'd think
they'd change their name to Rich, Richie, Rick or Ricky. On facebook, they
can get endless double-entendre teasing, yet shamelessly -- if not proudly
-- flaunt that handle to friend & foe alike, birthday or not. I call it
UrbanDic R=C3=A9sistance, a recalcitrant refusal to euphemize one's languag=
e use, thus caught betwixt a sinkhole of degeneracy and a tsunami of
political correctness. (Though Dickie doesn't sound too bad at all; used by
close facebook friends & relatives on birthdays, I would guess. Does seem to
lose the connection with penis that way.)
     [kahk], on the other hand, is really nasty. Maybe because the jaws are
maximally open during articulation, whereas [dIk] has the mouth almost shut.
(I've heard <cock sucker>, but *<dick sucker> rings no bells.) I've noted
several men with surname <Koch> making efforts to deter people from saying
[kahk]:  It's Mr Coke-Is-It (failed legal name change some years
ago) and NYC Mayor [kotch].
     Conclusion:  On the tabu scale, <dick> is weakly tabuized compared to
strongly tabuized <cock>.

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