Damn. I was going to respond that
"the fagbook" comment suggests to me an antipathy to cigarette butts
but I was not quick enough:
> > First, stop using degrading terms like "fag".
>
>
Perhaps the original poster is British, over here fags are things that
> kill you (small white carcinogenic tubes that are sold by murdering
> corporations and used by the brainless as a slow form of suicide)
> otherwise known as cigarettes or coffin nails .
> When I first read this I thought he was commenting on smokers (or
> working class idiots) not gays.
> Ben.
Way to go, Ben!
Fag also refers to "drudge" and "schoolboy slave to a bully" in British
argot, or so I learned from reading C.S. Lewis's surprisingly frank
"Surprised by Joy." Lewis implies that some of these slaves were also sexual
slaves. Perhaps here we have the origin of the term "fag" as a pejorative
for homosexual. Oddly, it was surely the initiator of the sexual slavery
whose tastes and habits could be condemned. But fear of being humiliated on
the receiving end of institutional rape might account for the carrying on of
the etymological evolution. Amongst males, the indecency is victimhood, or
somehow "being like a woman." We live in a weird world.
My trusty THE NEW CENTURY DICTIONARY, rather old, has the traditional
definition of fagot or faggot: a bundle of twigs or branches used to burn in
fires. You will often come across this in older English literature. A
faggot, in this terminology, is the same as a fasces, from which we get
FASCISM.
I started riffing on this, but my yearning for a connection to all meanings
brought about distasteful ideas that perhaps should not be . . .
HEY: This is a G3-G5 lowend Mac list! I thought I was on a political list.
So, let me say that I use Facebook, and enjoy it. It's the "new AOL," that
is, a subset of the Internet meant to be friendly to newbies and the
cautious.
Because it encourages public displays of private information, it is not
completely safe. It's a goldmine for "identity thieves."
--timo v
P.S. At home I use a G5 PowerMac tower. I need to connect it to my Airport
station, which has a modem to log onto the Internet (my broadband is
reserved for work). I have a NewerTech or MaxPower wireless card to put in
it, but that doesn't seem to work with Airport software. Can it be made to?
Or must I wait for my Airport Express card to show up?
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