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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Headline that Made Me Throw up In My Mouth
"Romney and Gingrich trade blows in Florida".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-gingrich-trade-blows-in-florida/2012/01/30/gIQAVzMDcQ_video.html
Seriously editors, are you all non-sexual creatures that don't get the double entendre or am I just reading too much into these things??
Patrick_Bateman
(47 posts)Get your minda outta the gutter gal!
Everybody knows they both suck.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)It's a kind of solidarity ritual. It's rare for them to do it for the press though.
--imm
Rex
(65,616 posts)The Pony Post is working at making sure the knuckle dragging crowd has something to look at besides the truth. It is to BEEF up their records with MANLY MANLY talk...scuse me while I spit this big chaw outta mah mouth...manly!!!! Oh...also maybe a crotch adjustment is in order as well...manly MANLY!!!!
So yes, you are reading into it...it has nothing to do with sex...and more to do with HEALTH.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...why you have a dirty mind.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)...not traded blow jobs on each other. Yikes.
I wonder if someone was just stressed and wasn't thinking.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)always referring to a verbal sparring match.
I would never have thought of anything else had you not just suggested it. Now I wish I could un-think it.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)My bad. My mind is truly in the gutter.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I don't remember ever seeing "traded blows". It's not much of a difference but the first one is more conventional.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)many times. I've seen 'traded' used more than 'exchanged', I think.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)I'm so paranoid now.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)There seems to be a lack of humor here. And you never know when the holier than thou types will show up.
I find a bit of double entendre funny sometimes. If people want to think me juvenile --- let 'em.
It's a message board.....
Tansy_Gold
(17,868 posts)and I thought it was delightfully funny.
Tansy Gold, still refusing to grow up
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)content. The sentence uses the noun "blow" in its plural form. The most common meaning of the noun "blow" is a physical strike of some kind. "Trading blows" is a very, very common usage, meaning they are fighting.
The sexual use of that word is using the verb form, "to blow," which refers to the movement of air as its primary meaning. The wind blows. You blow out a candle. And so on. The sexual meaning is way down the list for this commonly used verb.
If you're seeing sexual content in that headline, you're looking too hard. The problem is not in the use of words, it's in how you perceived those words.
This headline is absolutely clear and refers to the battle between the two candidates, not their sexual habits.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)"blow" as a singular noun. You know, the kind that dubya loved.
Absolutely correct on all points.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Special Achievement Category
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HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Sorry, I thought it was funny.
edited to add -- I like double entendre sometimes.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)throw up in my mouth a little.
NAO
(3,425 posts)The Evangelical spokesman said:
"Before we marry the guy next door, don't you think we ought to have a fling with a tall dark stranger and see if he can support us in the manner to which we'd like to be accustomed? And if he can't, we can always marry the steady beau who lives next door."
The homosexual agenda continues, right in the heart of Evangelical lala land.