Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>Undelete, please. Why is it or was it frowned upon?
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>>Ken <we used some choice words in the Bronx too>
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>Well, this verges on folk-etymology, but what I heard was it locks back to
>mestrual blood -- thus bloody and bleeding.
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Oh God, that's what I was thinking. Hmmm. Must be a British gene in
there someplace or I've seen one too many WW1 movies.
>By the time you get to "blooming", it really *is* euphemised.
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Same thing, I presume.
>Unless, of course, you cross-link to "bloomers".
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> Vlad the Impaler
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Ah, the Ur-Dracula, and reputed a bloody SOB too, who liked to throw his
victims on pikestaffs. Ugly one.
>{I'm pretty sure that the song which Dom originally cited goes back to the
>Great Patriotic War.}
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> Strelnikov
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As in Dr. Zhivago, perchance? NEVER forget the look on Tom Courtney's
face standing on the back of the observation deck of that railroad car.
Whatever became of Courtney anyway? Chiller with Finney in The Dresser,
anyway, didn't change his name to Courtney Love and marry Curt Cobain....
Ken
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