Why don't we all drop this subject. It is going nowhere. At 10:28 AM 5/22/2012 -0400, you wrote: >No reason to feel annoyed. Terry's an idiot. A really, really healthy, >fit, idiot. What has ME annoyed is that no one seemed offended by the >misspelling of the word 'damn'. Title should have read: "....D##n Piano" >, but then people would have to have wondered: "does it mean 'Darn'?" And >would it have been funny to Fit-Terry (and others) if it had said "Tune >your Gosh Darn Piano"? So, leaving the perception of humor to the mind >of the beheader, I'd want to defer to Paul Bruesch: >>there's nothing even remotely political about it. It's just all about >>common courtesy. > >except, at this point, I think every aspect of our lives is political, and >there is nothing common about courtesy. > >David B, does 'ruddy' represent the frontier of your on-line expletive usage? > >David Skolnik >Hastings on Hudson, NY > > >At 09:33 AM 5/22/2012, you wrote: >>Well, what has annoyed me much more than the "ad" itself, is Terry's >>assertion that if we don't find it funny it's because we are 'politically >>correct' and have a deficient sense of humour. >> >>It is easily possible to draw a distinction between "political >>correctness" and gracious speech with good manners. >> >>While we might wish to avoid calling a spade a multipurpose terraforming >>utensil, it is not necessary either to call it a ruddy shovel. >> >>Best regards, >> >>David. >><http://www.davidboyce.co.uk>www.davidboyce.co.uk
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