Organ sounds a bit dodgy??
P censor
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And it should be renamed Moby Male Reproductive Organ
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 16:46, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Not to mention Conrad's well-known novel, and then
> there's the person who successfully got Moby Dick removed from some
website
> because it contained the word "sperm." Definitely a word from which
> children must be shielded.
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> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Douglas Barbour
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>> I finally got to read it, Uche, &, indeed, found it interesting.
>>
>>
>> Will be interested, for sure, to see what you say in the next part, as
>> I
>> still am not sure exactly how you see any fix' for the complexities of
>> the situation. For some people, the words do carry huge consequences.
>>
>> I admit that as a white middle class Canadian male, I have no real
>> experience of all this, but while I would fight against anyone trying to
>> ban Huckleberry Finn because it contains a word that (now) offends them,
>> I also
>> would never use it myself. There we find ourselves in the middle of
>> dangerous contexts, no?
>>
>> Doug
>> On 13-May-10, at 11:06 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
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>> I got pretty flattened with workplace obligations for a few days and
>> I'm
>>
>>> just catching up to all this.
>>>
>>> Judy,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm glad the piece seems to reflect the fun I had writing it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Desmond,
>>>
>>>
>>> Very kind of you. If I'm the new voice, I guess we'll need to be
>>> handing out a good number of new earplugs on compassionate grounds. I
>>> checked out Susan's Weblog, and I'm looking forward to more in her
>>> World Literature
>>> series. I must say, though, that I have no truck with Nollywood
>>> films. There's only so much bluster and bathos I can take. I do hope
>>> one day you get to see proper Nigerian, theatrical drama which is
>>> generally excellent. Just a few days ago Esiaba Irobi died, who I
>>> remember very well from my Nsukka days, and especially for his intense
>>> play, Nwokedi, which would make a great script for the (slowly)
>>> emerging, more cerebral Nollywood.
>>>
>>> --Uche
>>>
>>>
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> I was immediately set upon by two or three
>> critics, who hurled sophistries and maledictions at me that were
>> astonishing in their dimness.
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