With all of the lovely pepperoni and other animal flesh on a properly-made pizza, it is definitely a health food! Leave those veggies off...
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:01 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> writes > >> Sometime back years ago a thread touched on the evolution of languages and >> I made the point they tended to change rapidly until the advent of the >> printing press, which pretty much began fixing it in place once more people >> agreed on how things should be spelled (spelt for you Brits) and pronounced. >> But right this very minute, we're witnessing a tiny language shift before >> our very eyes, the product of political correctness. Apparently, it is now >> acceptable in many circles to use the pronoun "they" in place of "him or >> her." As in "When someone comes into that building, they are often confused >> by the signs in the lobby." When I was a kid that would have been a red >> circle and the note in the margin, "Incorrect Antecedent." >> >> Language is pretty fascinating stuff, isn't it? >> >> Best,R.E.F. > > > I have been using it that way for decades, though don't blame me for > starting it. > > I wonder if you have seen the item on pizza's where US Congress has ruled > that a pizza is a vegetable because of the amount of tomato paste? > This is an example of premature evolution of language. Not only have we > tomatoes mutating from fruit into vegetables, we now have an anti-health > food becoming 'green' as a vegetable :) > > So its of to the phone to call "Domino's Vegetable", though it sounds a but > of a mouthful to me <g> > > <http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282 > 033-Nov2011/> > -- > John > > The Official Raymond E Feist Website > http://www.crydee.com/ > > Books to read, and shelves to fill, > Ray's great books, just fit the bill. > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
