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DominEditrix	Post subject: Tasteless Exploitation Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:40 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 458 Location: Heart of Global Warming	And so it begins.
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SuchASlot	Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:56 pm
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 1189	Oh, D., the pope shirts are bad. But even worse, you have inadvertently inflicted upon us the “Infant Sayings” shirts... “I coo, I poo, that’s what I do” “When my daddy made me, he was just showing off” “I’m a little Christian”
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DominEditrix	Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:02 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 458 Location: Heart of Global Warming	SuchASlot wrote: But even worse, you have inadvertently inflicted upon us the “Infant Sayings” shirts... “I coo, I poo, that’s what I do” “When my daddy made me, he was just showing off” “I’m a little Christian” Don't write about your children, and especially don't attribute quotes to them... D.
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EMorse	Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:08 pm
Joined: Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:01 am Posts: 1025 Location: The Lexington Avenue Spaceship	And while we're at it (I know this is veering off-topic, but I'm in a cranky mood today), who do we see about permanently banning talking/dancing/martially artistic/hoagie-shilling/sunglasses-wearing babies from TV, billboards and movies?
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Abe	Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:29 pm
Joined: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:40 pm Posts: 154	And while we're off-topic (that's why were in this forum, no?), I still can't figure out how to pronounce "tshirt," let alone "tuxedotshirt." I'm pretty sure the first one is of Germanic derivation (with the Anglicized "sh" instead of "sch"), so it'd be "cheert," but on the second looks more Aztec, so I'd go with "toox-e-DOT-sheert."
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DominEditrix	Post subject: Categorise not, lest ye be categorised Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:37 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 458 Location: Heart of Global Warming	EMorse wrote: And while we're at it (I know this is veering off-topic, but I'm in a cranky mood today), who do we see about permanently banning talking/dancing/martially artistic/hoagie-shilling/sunglasses-wearing babies from TV, billboards and movies? Oh, yes, please. Not to mention talking animals, that ghodawful Snuggles bear and Ann Coulter. D.
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DominEditrix	Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:41 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 458 Location: Heart of Global Warming	Abe wrote: I still can't figure out how to pronounce "tshirt," let alone "tuxedotshirt." In both words, the primary "t" is silent; the "d" is prounced like the Welsh "ll" and all "ir" constructs are pronounced "arrrgh". D.
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