Tom Felton: Off Color Word Censored, ...But What Word????
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Sep 9 14:36:36 UTC 2008
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, KEN ADAMS <kenadams705 at ...> wrote:
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> From: KEN ADAMS <kenadams705 at ...>
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, 8 September, 2008 6:31:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Tom Felton: Off Color Word Censored, ...But What
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> Sorry Geoff.
> I had understood that HPGU Chatter was unmoderated, I sent my reply and nothing
happened, so, frustrated, I sent it again, and again nothing happened, thoroughly
frustrated, I tried again  but bungled on the paste button, went off to dinner. Then I got
a message from an elf, who probably because this is my first posting to this group; I
prefer to lie in the background and find out what everybody else thinks; thuoght I was a
spammer and had held up my posts to check. She recognised that all three were the same
lead and decided to only send one of them, the wrong one together with a message to say
that I had been demodded which doesn't seem to be too painful.
> My apologies I had no intention of trying to imply that you were obsessed with this
subject.Â
> I had meant to send this one:
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: KEN ADAMS <kenadams705 at ...>
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, 8 September, 2008 6:27:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Tom Felton: Off Color Word Censored, ...But What
Word????
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> While here in Dorset (UK) our major river is the river Piddle.
> Numerous villages are named after it such as Piddletrenhyde
> and even Much Piddle. Tolpuddle of martyrs fame is a changed
> Â name, doctored after the martyrs went to the High Court, where
> it was considered inappropriate. The villages name was changed
> from Tolpiddle Â
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> Most of the euphemisms for a gentleman's equipment are
> fairly harmless ones; they wouldn't make me blush and I'm
> not one for swearing. After all, if we can cope with a well-known
> West Country hill called Brown Willy without too much
> sniggering.. ... Curiously, the one which I find silly which I think
> I have only seen in US English is "manhood" which for some
> reason makes me chuckle.
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> No, the words which are normally bleeped and ones at which I
> personally take umbrage if I hear them are the f-word, the
> c-word and the s-word.
Geoff:
Well, I only got one message - basically the one above.
So, if I might misquote Mark Twain, reports of your obsession
(or mine) have been greatly exaggerated.
:-)
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