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From:Carol Anne Buckley <cbuckley@...>
Date:Monday, January 31, 2005, 0:05
Just to let you know, your subject line offended me, and there's no smiley
face here.  I get enough junk mail with offensive subject lines, I don't
need any more from this list.

Carol B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "caeruleancentaur" <caeruleancentaur@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:30 AM
Subject: C.U.N.T. (was Slang, curses and vulgarities)


> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@U...> wrote: > >As I think has already been mentioned, there is only one four-letter > >word in English that is so offensive it's taboo even to hear it > >uttered: c*nt. This is so strongly felt that the Catholic University > >of North Texas decided to change its name simply to the University > >of North Texas to avoid the inevitable embarrassment. > > No smiley face accompanied this statement, so I thought I would > clarify. There are only three Catholic institutions of higher > learning in Texas: the Univ. of Dallas, St. Edward's Univ. in Austin > and the Univ. of St. Thomas in Houston. There is no Cath. Univ. of > North Texas. It belongs to the same fictitious category as the Sam > Houston Institute of Technology. > > Charlie > http://wiki.frath.net/User:Caeruleancentaur

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