I'll pitch in... Many years ago in primary school we were all asked to tell the class what our father's did. My father worked for a publishing company, and I didn't know how to describe what he did, so I said he was a "Bookie". I had no idea what the word meant. He received a call from the headmaster that evening. :-) Simon
-----Original Message----- From: Ann Sanfedele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2003 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Professions and the PUG graywolf wrote: > Well, you ought to teach your kids these things. I wasn't and could not > understand why I was was being punished for calling one of my classmates > a horror*, which she was. We were about 10, and I didn't even know the > other word that sounds the nearly the same. I simply had never heard the > other word. Nobody believes in innocence (grin). > annsan adds: I had a similar experience - I called a girl in my 6th grade class a "fairy" because heard others call her that. I thought it just meant she was a jerk. So I told my father at dinner that I didn't want to go to her party or haver her over or something becuase she was a fairy. He was very upset and said I shouldn't call anyone that but wouldn't tell me why. This was in about 1947. Just one of many things kids of our generation were not told. > > * horror (noun) > 4. Informal. Something unpleasant, ugly, or disagreeable. > > The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition > copyright (c) 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version > licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution > restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. > All rights reserved. > > Peter Alling wrote: > > > Please Ann, this is a family list. (Not that I didn't consider it). > > > > At 09:35 AM 10/3/03 -0400, you wrote: > > > >> Was kinda surprised there were no shots of > >> world's oldest... > >> Nobody live in Vegas or Amsterdam?? :) > >> > >> annsan - feeling silly this morning > > > > > > I drink to make other people interesting. > > -- George Jean Nathan > > > > -- > graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com
