Text 20991, 66 rader
Skriven 2007-10-03 16:27:16 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
  Kommentar till text 20983 av Dave Drum (1:10/345)
Ärende: What's in a Name
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 > On 09-21-07 Barbara McNay Scribbled to RUTH HANSCHKA
 > about bird and rat

 > BM> >-> [Later]  Haven't found it yet.  It's tough searching a map on a
 > BM> >2"x2"  screen.

 > BM> > Think old canning jars that came in colors.  And a
 > BM> > certain manual put out
 > BM> > by the manufacturers of said jars.  It's not that the
 > BM> > town name is bad, but
 > BM> > in context it resembles a South Park joke.  I'm not
 > BM> > sure how they've missed
 > BM> > this one.

 > BM>You're not talking about Kerr canning jars, I'm pretty sure. [g]  The
 > BM>other name produced the desired town name, even though I didn't know
 > BM>what the first half was.  Maybe they play billiards there. [g]

 > I think she was going for Ball or Ball-Mason jars.
 > They came in a blue
 > tinted variety. But, that had little to do with the
 > town name - which
 > was from a large, round, ball shaped, blue-granite
 > boulder at the
 > crossroads where the place grew into a town.

Interesting.  I did get the brand of the jars right off--hard not to when
you've done lots of canning--but I didn't Google the name of the town.

 > /rant follows/

 > I don't know why people don't just come right out and
 > say what they mean
 > instead of seeing prurience is all manner of things.
 > We used to have a
 > poster on this echo who would not bring herself to
 > type "shiitake
 > mushrooms" - substituting asterisks for the "ii".

That makes it worse than when spelled correctly.

 > Seems that many are too tight-arsed and take
 > themselves and their
 > "sensibilities" waaaaay too seriously to be able to
 > enjoy life.

As I said elsewhere, I think novelty plays a part in this. You grow up with
things like this, or live with them constantly for a time, the novelty wears
off, and, as you say, it's only words.  It takes longer to wear off for some
than others.

 > It's only words. Even my tongue-in-cheek, (and I see
 > from the posts
 > here) legendary truck-load trip was done to be a thumb
 > in the eye to the
 > oversensitive and dirty-minded folks who find
 > eeeeevilllll in the most
 > innocent of things. Sadly, few of them get it - even
 > when you rub their
 > upturned noses in it!!!

Then again, there are those who persist with this attitude, and those who will
pick it up in a flash, to smear somebody they're annoyed with.

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