Re: the language watch continues

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 5 Sep 2000,  Marc Lemay wrote:

> Bastard's not so bad...asshole...as a parent remains questionable...but as
> a former News Director...I probably would have gone with it at least
> once...just for the "human interest" factor.

Why, you don't think your kids know the word?

When I was a child, I found certain Biblical passages hard to understand 
because I didn't know that "ass" also means donkey.  I couldn't quite 
figure out "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass."
 
> Besides, GW now seems to me like he has a personality.  I like that.

Yeah, he uses bad language.  So did Nixon.
 
> Marc "I've been called much worse" Lemay

That reminds me of a story I heard on A&E's biography of Pierre Trudeau.  
It seems that on the White House tapes, Nixon was heard to refer to "That 
asshole Trudeau."  Trudeau's response was, "I've been called worse things 
by better people."



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