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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:26:00 CST
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- From: "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- : Those good, old fashioned Anglo-Saxon earthy words which the Normans
- : made vile in their attempts to denigrate the people they had
- : "conquered," words like fuck, and shit, and cunt, are now becoming
- : commonplace, but let anyone express religious sentiments in an everyday
- : context, and this new puritanism shows its head. It's rather amusing.
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- Provided a *man* does not use two of those three words to express
- some literal meaning. If he does, he runs the risk of a sexual
- harassment trial.
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- Steve Karlson
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