Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!elbereth!rutgers!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!unc!holloway From: holloway@unc.UUCP (Richard Holloway) Newsgroups: net.jokes,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: newspeak, innovative use of a term long abused. - offensive to you? Maybe - it could be, it could not be. You pays your money and you takes your chances. (rot 13) Message-ID: <6@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 22:11:57 EDT Article-I.D.: y and you takes your chances. (rot 13) Posted: Fri Oct 10 22:11:57 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Oct-86 05:47:34 EDT References: <425@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Reply-To: holloway@unc.UUCP (Richard Holloway) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 43 Keywords: Expletive deleted, nasty words, people from 'Fame', things your grandmother Xref: watmath net.jokes:4519 talk.bizarre:457 Summary: history of naughty words... would eat... NOTE: not rot13! so to quote a phrase (and a bruce cockburn (honest, that's his name) song): "you pay your money and you take your chance (when you're dealing with love and romance)" feeble wimps or disinterested parties should hit the 'n' key now. i heard of a derivation of the word "FUCK" ( a fine word, that; for reasons chronicled in the previous article ) from a non-unimpeachable but trustable source, who said that it came from either England or Puritan America and stood for the then-crime: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. I'm serious about this, so for God's sake, let's not start a bunch of stupid run-on puns and clever guesses (unless you feel you HAVE to). now, for the net.jokes people (others hit 'n'), a joke: q: what do you call a girl who can suck a bowling ball through a garden hose? a: honey. rich holloway holloway@unc ****************************************************************************** i feel sorry for people who drink because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day... ******************************************************************************