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Article #4253Re: New High-Jackings Announced!
From: Knights Templar
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:48
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:48
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**** FERG **** "jan sand" <jansand@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3bd31a3b.2395485@news.mindspring.com... : On 21 Oct 2001 10:38:43 -0700, ferg_mcd@hotmail.com (Ferg) wrote: : : >SYDNEY, Tuesday: In a move confirming the worst fears of : >conservatives, representatives of the gay community today announced a : >list of words they intend to hijack over the next five years. : > : >"We're pretty happy with what we've done to 'gay'," a spokesman said : >joyously. "Instead of 'lighthearted' or 'male character in pre-1910 : >fiction' everyone who sees the words instantly thinks of two : >moustaches gobbling each other's helmet." : > : >Meetings of the Gays for Removing Innocence from the English Language : >have now decided that the time has come to expand their targets. : > : >"Among the terms slated for hijack are 'happy' - which will mean : >passive recipient of anal intercourse from the beginning of financial : >year 2002 - to 'appointment' which now designates an amyl-nitrate : >soaked orgy in a public toilet. The meanings of the terms 'amused', : >'sardonic' 'insouciant' 'dentist' and 'plain upstanding bloke who : >objects to words being hijacked' have also all been altered, to : >'fistfucker'." : > : >http://www.chaser.com.au/show_story.asp?ID=180&ED=27&NAME=gayhijack : : Now, what new terminology have they devised for a gay basher? : : Jan Sand
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