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In our last episode, 
<sapve09qh09vg5899g0hicdp4ghtrblh8c@4ax.com>, 
the lovely and talented Tony Cooper 
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 03:09:26 -0500, Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com>
> wrote:

>>In our last episode, 
>><89ec59b9.0407092351.67aca27@posting.google.com>, 
>>the lovely and talented Harlan Osier 
>>broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>>
>>> What can I use for "penis" ?
>>
>>> Dick or cock ? Are there more ?
>>
>>> And "balls" for "testicles" ?
>>
>>> I want to write a gay porn story and need some synonyms that both
>>> Americans and non-American will understand.
>>
>>
>>Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints.

> When I read the post, the first thing that popped into my mind is that
> I hope that Lars is reading this.  Don't you, or didn't you, provide
> an on-line writing course?

   Linkname: Online Edition Lavender Blue: 3. Structure and Strength
        URL:
          <http://www.io.com/~eighner/books/lavender_blue/03_chapter.html>

|   Call a cock a "cock." Yes, sometimes it should be "fuckpole."
|   "One-eyed snake" never was erotic and no longer is funny. Depending
|   upon your narrator, it might be "dick" or even "peter." (When it is
|   "dick" you must write "head of his dick." "Cockhead" works. "Dickhead"
|   doesn't.) To paraphrase Strunk and White: never call a cock a pee-pee
|   without good reason. Fresh figures and colorful expressions are most
|   effective when strictly limited.


sigh.

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Lars Eighner -finger for geek code-  eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/
   "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no
   standard by which to judge it." --Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person