Re: Euphemisms

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From: Tony Green
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00

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sales wrote:
> 
> In article <345470E8.746@ibm.net>, Mike Dale <mdale@ibm.net> writes
> >Hi, I wonder if anyone would like to share with me and anyone else who
> >is interested any humorous or unusual euphemisms they know.  I would
> >especially like to hear any non-English ones (in translation please!)

A popular euphamism for sex originated in Private Eye magazine in the
1970s, when a politician who had been caught out screwing (I think) his
researcher claimed that in fact they had been discussing the situation
in Uganda. (at the time, Idi Amin was making most Ugandans' lives ratehr
unpleasant, to say the least)
Ever since, Ugandan discussions or many variations have come to mean
having sex, usually with an employee.
-- 
               Tony Green

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From: Tony Green <tonyg@osmf.b>
Subject: Re: Euphemisms
Date: 1997/10/30
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