Bits & Pieces: Your high school mascot cannot be a beaver

Monday, July 09, 2007

…at least according to Bank of America
Beaver

Anonymous said...: www.poetrycontest.com kept rejecting a poem I wanted to enter - turned out to be objecting to the word 'faggots'. Faggot is an old word that can mean a bunch of wood for kindling or some disgusting food item made from offal. It's only recently become slang for a homosexualist - and that wasn't the meaning I was using.
By their logic you cannot submit a poem if it contains word such as fairy, queer, dyke, gay, etc. - they should leave the censorship for words like arsebandit and shirtlifter which are obviously intended to be derogatory and have no other meaning.; 5:38 PM, July 09, 2007
Gail said...: At my daughter's middle school the auto-nanny blocked cockatiel.; 6:05 PM, July 09, 2007
Anonymous said...: Does no one understand CONTEXT any longer? I'm convinced of it now: People are indeed idiots. *sigh*

At least I'm heartened by the common sense and understanding displayed by johhny english and gail on this page ...; 9:56 PM, July 09, 2007
Anonymous said...: One site I tried to register with refused to let me use my surname - Cockerill. Needless to say, I refused to alter it and they lost my business; 5:45 PM, July 10, 2007

Monday, July 09, 2007