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- From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
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- Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.151527.11898@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:15:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.011001.21677@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
- >Damian Jackson (damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader) writes:
- >: >cj writes:
- >: >>I follow-up my own post to bring you this breathless update: Lance
- >: >>summarizes Maddi as:
- >: >>
- >: >> Fucking Princeton Mensa Wank
- >: >>
- >: >Really? I've never heard the term "Wank" applied to a woman before. Can one
- >: >of the resident Brits give a ruling on this? PV
- >
-
- I've never really thought of it before. I suppose a woman can be a wanker but
- the word looses its surreal humorous content then.
-
- You always use the term as a derogotry(sp ??) expression when describing a
- man, the humor being that all men are wankers. I have it on great authority
- that not all women like to wank (not as much as men anyhow) so when you call
- a woman a wanker it really is an insult.
-
- Unless the girl is an habitual wanker.
-
- >: Which side of the bed do you get out of, Paul?
- >:
- >: The more important question is this:
- >:
- >: Are we using "Mensa" in the sense of "pseudo-intellectual worm"?
- >
- > Does "Mensa" have some other meaning I was not previously aware of?
- >(British English... every time I think I've got the hang of it, along
- >comes some word with a new meaning and throws me for a loop.)
- >
-
- We change the language to divide, confuse and rule. It's not much, but its
- all we've got these days.
-
- We used to have an Empire you know.
-
- Andy
-
- PS What is Mensa ?
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