Re: Yer Ugly Mug Pre-annoucement

On Monday 28 April 2003 08:25 am, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Peter Clark wrote:
> >Your gender
>
> It's called sex, dammit. Nouns have gender, people have sex.
        Well, yes, people "have sex" (that explains all the babies, doncha know? ;> )
but they also have gender. Here in the States, "gender" and "sex" are used
interchangeably, although there tends to be a preference for "gender." (As
the joke goes, when a teenager was asked for his sex on a form, he wrote,
"Yes, please.")

> >Your state/province
>
> Can I request that people put their state name in full? It's annoying
> having to wonder what the American two-letter abbreviations are
> (especially annoying because some are also country codes).
        Noted.

> >Password (so you can edit your profile later)
>
> Shouldn't it be compulsory?
        It is; I just neglected to include the *.
        :Peter

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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!