----- Original Message ----- From: Una McCormack una@qresearch.org.uk To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [B7L] impressionable kiddies and mixed zines
Kat wrote:
Mine (for a while) was "bugger" because of Northey in Nancy Mitford's "Don't Tell Alfred" and her description of the lobsters making their way to freedom. I think that I didn't know what it meant in literal terms then but I do remember my Mum advising caution when I used it.
'Bugger' was my father's swear word of choice, lovingly handed on to me -
pretty
much my only heirloom ;)
Heh. My parents let me read/view pretty much indiscriminately as a child (although, ObPorn, they did keep an eye on what I was up to and occasionally offered rather firm literary advice)-- which led to me reading "The Restaurant At the End of the Universe" aged ten, and picking up the expression "asshole"-- which I assumed was a simple insult along the lines of "moron" or "git." Imagine my surprise at the reaction I got when I innocently used the word at Girl Guides one day...
ObB7: the Girl Guides are IMO a fascist organisation, anyway.
Fiona
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