Many of you know that I am a "word person". I don't sit around reading a dictionary or anything, but the more one gets to know me, the more one will find that there are several words that gross me out, or otherwise put me into hysterics when I hear them. Some I like to say to evoke a reaction from my friends, and some (mostly one) I can't even bring myself to say. Here they are in no particular order:
tender, loin, tenderloin (duh), scintillating, titilate, penetrate, moist, cockles,(Not sure how to spell it, but my mom is fond of saying the phrase "warms the cockles of my heart", which makes me want to puke.) barnacles, tentacles, scampi (sounds like an STD. i.e. "Joe has a raging case of scampi") and probably worst of all these is panties.
I could hardly even type it. I think this word sounds pornographic. It's disgusting. No daughter of mine will ever wear panties... she will wear UNDERWEAR!! Why do girls have to wear p------, but boys get to wear underwear?? I'll tell you why, because some pervert in the undergarment business created the word to get his jollies.
Some have said to me that since girls wear different types of under garments there needed to be a distinction. Therefore the p word and bra needed to be specific because underwear could mean either of the two.
That is a crock. I've never known a girl to refer to a bra as underwear. Ever. If there is anything I could do in this life that would make me feel like I was successful in some way, it would be to obliterate this word. Join my cause won't you? Admit it, you think it's a gross word too.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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I second that sister! I remember the two of us going through our list of words and cringing with everyone!
Actually, as I've told you, I don't think it is awful. But, I will resist in saying it to you forever and ever...since it happens to be the worst word for you.
Maybe we can create a new word to take place of the old, icky one. Like..punderwear. What do you think?
p.s. you don't know the words that make me cringe, do you? There are two...and they are synonyms. they make me squirm just thinking of them.
Funny woman! I'll never say the "p" word again and I'll always think of this whenever I say it out of your presence. But come to think of it, it's not a word I use very much....
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