Rules? Rules, you ask? I'll give you the rules!

[Billie Walsh]

On 08/24/2010 09:03 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 24/08/2010 23:10, Billie Walsh wrote:
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>> On 08/24/2010 01:06 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>> On 24/08/2010 05:36, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:16:23 -0700
>>>> Johnneylee Rollins<johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com>     wrote:
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>>>>> No thanks. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>            
>>>> Once again I figured as much.
>>>>
>>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>>
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>>> You know, even though I read this thread some hours ago I still sit here
>>> flabbergasted, and have to keep looking out the window and shaking my
>>> head in disbelief.
>>>
>>> I wonder what would have been the result if I had mentioned either one
>>> of the other posts my wife had rejected as an example? In one she used
>>> "chock-full of goodness" and in another she stated that she uses
>>> "Shitake Mushrooms".....
>>>
>>> All truly mind boggling.....
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> All I can say is that some people give to much power to words. Words in
>> and of themselves can do no harm. They can only do harm if you give them
>> the power to do so.
>>
>>      
> No Billie, it goes deeper and further than that.
>
> It's best explained by the anecdote about a psychologist who is asked to
> assess the mental state of a man accused of being a sex (I should not
> have said this...I *should not* have said this!) offender.
>
> The psychologist conducts his first test by showing a series of inkblot
> pictures to the man and asks the man to tell him what the man sees. When
> shown each inkblot the man replies, "The man is [making love] [doing
> naughty things] to his wife." At the end the psychiatrist says to the
> man, "You definitely have a psychotic disorder concerning sex!" to which
> the man replied, "Looks whose talking! You're the one whose been showing
> me all these pornographic pictures!"
>
> 'Nuff said.....
>
> BC
>
>    

Not quite the same thing. I'm talking about someone caused physical 
discomfort over the use of a word.

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