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19 Oct 2009, 6:26 pm

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That's something she should have taken up with a mod. There are various unusual (sexual) fetishes out there - statues, cars, balloons, things you just wouldn't think of. So it's quite possible that they thought she was using it in such a manner. If someone used pussycat in their username, even if they were legitmately meaning cat, I'm sure they'd be banned for similar reasons.

She seemed quite perplexed as to the whole thing.. when someone suggested that her name was the reason, she seemed doubtful that they would have thought her name was sexual. (Aspies DO kinda tend to miss the obvious..) Or maybe she really was trouble, I don't know. She didn't seem to be causing trouble at the other site.. but most other AS sited aren't as active as WP so it's harder to cause trouble. What causes trouble on a support site with hundreds of people on at any given time might be easily ignored on a less active site. Like that thing about how the likelihood of a party getting out of hand increases exponentially for each additional person who comes.

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19 Oct 2009, 9:20 pm

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I wouldn't be surprised. What once meant cat, today means something else.

It's amazing how times have changed, isn't it?

Yeah, sure.
I had no idea that that word is now considered as vulgar.
... So, if ever one day I want to post a certain song of Tom Jones, the song will be censored?

In France, we have the equivalent word and it's a cute word.
It's even used with little girls when one doesn't feel like talking in a very scientific manner :roll:

And also with real cats of course.

And jazz was a black term for sexual intercourse at the turn of the 19th century.
( I always giggle inwardly when the rigid Mormons host the Utah Jazz.)

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19 Oct 2009, 9:23 pm

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Maggiedoll wrote:

At this point in time, it's pretty unlikely for anyone to say that word and actually mean a feline. You call a cat a cat. If you want to use a "cuter" word you might say "kitty cat." That term has just gone away in regards to actually being a reference to an animal.

I use the word "pussycat" all the time when I'm speaking to cats. I've never said "kitty-cat" in my life. Maybe that's a geographical thing...

Ditto. It may be an American (regional?) usage. However, I have to admit that Mrs. Betty Slocombe ("Are You Being Served?") .

but, but but. . .
I thought Mrs. Slocombe first name was Rachel! Seems we are both right, Lau.

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"Mrs Slocombe did actually have a first name -well, several to be precise. Mollie explained; "Even the writers would forget. They forgot what her first name was, which was Betty Slocombe, and they kept forgetting and I kept getting a different name. And when it came the birthday they used that. They asked what's her name, and I said I don't know, I thought it was Betty and they thought it was Rachel. Well, they had all these names and when it came to the line 'Happy Birthday dear Betty Rachel Aviginary...' ...and that's how I got all these names because they'd forgotten it."

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20 Oct 2009, 8:33 am

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And jazz was a black term for sexual intercourse at the turn of the 19th century.
( I always giggle inwardly when the rigid Mormons host the Utah Jazz.)

ROFL, I totally didn't know that one! That's great!

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20 Oct 2009, 6:32 pm

Maggiedoll wrote:

sinsboldly wrote:

And jazz was a black term for sexual intercourse at the turn of the 19th century.
( I always giggle inwardly when the rigid Mormons host the Utah Jazz.)

ROFL, I totally didn't know that one! That's great!

that is why 'jazz' music in the twenties was so scandalous! Not only sex, but black sex!

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21 Oct 2009, 10:31 am

sinsboldly wrote:

that is why 'jazz' music in the twenties was so scandalous! Not only sex, but black sex!

wikipedia wrote:

West Coast slang term around 1912, the meaning of which varied but which did not refer to music or sex

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Several sources, including Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns in Jazz: A History of America's Music (2000) and Hilton Als in the New York Review of Books on March 27, 2003, suggest that jazz derives from the jasmine perfume that prostitutes wore in the red-light district of New Orleans. This theory derives from the recollections of jazz musician Garvin Bushell (as told to Mark Tucker) in Jazz from the Beginning (1998; originally published ca. 1988). Bushell said that he heard this derivation in the circus, where he began working in 1916. It appears to be a false etymology unsupported by factual evidence

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Jasm is thought to derive from or be a variant of slang jism or gism, which the Historical Dictionary of American Slang dates to 1842 and defines as "spirit; energy; spunk." Jism also means semen or sperm, the meaning that predominates today, causing jism to be considered a taboo word. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, however, jism could still be used in polite contexts. Jism, or its variant jizz (which, however, is not attested in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang until 1941), has also been suggested as a direct source for jazz. A direct derivation from jism is phonologically unlikely; jasm itself would be, according to this assumption, the intermediary form.

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21 Oct 2009, 6:51 pm

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sinsboldly wrote:

that is why 'jazz' music in the twenties was so scandalous! Not only sex, but black sex!

wikipedia wrote:

West Coast slang term around 1912, the meaning of which varied but which did not refer to music or sex

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there ya' go!

if you have no sexual apparatus, you have no jism or jasm

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21 Oct 2009, 9:50 pm

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there ya' go!

if you have no sexual apparatus, you have no jism or jasm

All the funnier given that every high school has a jazz band, too.. :lol:

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13 Nov 2009, 2:23 pm

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I see the wappy word censor is still alive and wreaking havoc.

It seems I can't refer to a p.u.s.s.y cat without it becoming p**** cat. :roll:

There's a trick I use on Fannation to circumvent the censor when it would censor something that doesn't need it (such as when I refer to the Gamecocks by their shortened name). If it works on here (and if it does, I will NOT abuse it), I should be able to say p**** [attempt to circumvent the word filter deleted by lau] cat.

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16 Nov 2009, 5:39 pm

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[attempt to circumvent the word filter deleted by lau]

Can you change that to "circumvention of the word filter"? That makes it sound like I failed.

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16 Nov 2009, 8:11 pm

pat2rome wrote:

[attempt to circumvent the word filter deleted by lau]

Can you change that to "circumvention of the word filter"? That makes it sound like I failed.

No... since I consider myself to be part of the word filter.

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