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[Marty_d]

The 7 dwarfs were in the bath feeling happy. So Happy got out.

[facthunter]

When Laxettes were available, GAY had a different meaning..    Nev

[old man emu]

The word 'gay' didn’t just one day adopt that meaning as an offensive comment made about flamboyant homosexuals. The word has always had a second meaning that dates back to 1637 where the secondary meaning was defined as being addicted to social pleasures and dissipation. In other words, the gay life was a life of loose morals and so males and females who were inclined to leading immoral lives were said to be gay. It only took three hundred more years for the word to refer to male homosexuals.

 

When the term gay blade first began showing up in literature, it had nothing to do with being addicted to social pleasures. It referred to a gallant young man who was usually adept as a swordsman.  The word blade is from the Middle English word blæd which meant sword in the late 1300s, and referred to a man by the 1590s, hence the play on words. The word gay is also from the Middle English word which meant impetuous, lively, and merry. From this comes the expression gay blade and, many gallant young men who were unusually adept as swordsmen back in the day were impetuous, lively, and merry as well as skilled.

 

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Wielding the pork sword.

[facthunter]

Well it didn't mean anything like that with the Laxette advert.  It as something to do with NOT being constipated. Nev

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, Marty_d said:

The 7 dwarfs were in the bath feeling happy. So Happy got out.

So they weren't feeling gay?

[Marty_d]

10 hours ago, nomadpete said:

So they weren't feeling gay?

Sounds like they were, but Happy wasn't.

[facthunter]

To get it back to "Projects" Marty could continue his with Gay Abandon but I hope he doesn't.  Nev