[Ads-l] "gay" avoidance [now Kookaburra sits...]
Geoffrey Nathan
geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU
Mon Aug 20 18:59:57 UTC 2018
Okay, I’m going to try again, because the listserv munged this URL
in a new and exciting way, by secretly expanding the bit.ly link without
my permission, thereby breaking it.
https://bit.ly/2weOtCZ
Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu
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Indeed:
https://bit.ly/2weOtCZ<https://www.wimp.com/if-youve-never-heard-the-kookab=
urra-bird-before/>
Geoff
Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu
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And especially beloved for providing the generic "scary animal" sound
effects for every jungle movie ever made.
JL
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:43 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Monkeys? The kookaburra is a bird.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:48 AM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Kookaburra Song is another candidate for expurgation. Especially
> > nowadays its making fun of monkeys. Still recall the nuns having us sin=
g
> it
> > numberless times in rounds. Catchy tune, though.
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