Things that sound like slurs, but aren't.

[Robb]

To wit:

watch fob

...as in, "those watch fobs coming in taking all of our jobs!"

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. Well, there was that DC public official who was forced out of a job...

...after using the word "niggardly" in a speech.

[pagerbear]

3. There was the corporate trainer

...who was fired for using the word pedagogy in a report.

[Karenina]

5. It was not a speech.

It was an office meeting. My recently departed mom was LIVID and SPITTING TACKS in her inimitable fashion! What a rant I got in my ear!

[Nay]

18. That's the guy I was going to refer to as well. Poor bastard.

Imagine him in grad school, learning all sorts of things, and the poor guy just never imagined that gross ignorance and stupidity would bring him down. In the old days even the idiots used an effing dictionary before they derided someone for their words or speech.

[NightTrain]

2. I once knew a little kid who mistakenly referred to kites as "kikes."

Does that count? :shrug:

[yorgatron]

4. i had a friend who took drama classes

and she turned into a THESPIAN!

[XNASA]

6. Masticaters.

As in:

When his officemates returned from a 2 hour lunch, Joe said, "Quit jerkin' off and get back to work, you bunch of lazy masticaters!"

[NightTrain]

7. Sock-tucker

n/t

[asthmaticeog]

8. Dick Armey n/t

[m-jean03]

21. help me

What movie was that bear scene in?? Before it got photoshopped?

I remember being very, very frightened.

[asthmaticeog]

27. The Shining n/t

[On the Road]

9. Mad Magazine Ran A Piece in the 60's

on a non-insulting campaign speech in which the polical opponent was attacked for:

- Having a mother who was a self-confessed sexanagerian
- Being encouraged to masticate by his parents
- Having a sister who was a thespian

and a lot of similar things. It was great.

[rock]

11. As I recall the opponent

was known to engage in piscatorial activities.

[Rowdyboy]

10. In college, once,

I matriculated. There, I've finally admitted it in public!

[Endangered Specie]

12. You graduate Suma Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude.

:evilgrin:

[Rowdyboy]

13. Just plain old "cum laude"

but it sure was fun! :evilgrin:

[lucidmadman]

14. Dipthong

In phonetics it's two quick vowel sounds next to one another, but it sounds like a put-down to me.

[Anaxamander]

15. Pork barrel politics (nt)

[TXlib]

16. lucidmadman is a dip-thong

The word is diphthong.

:7

[lucidmadman]

24. I was wondering about the spelling...

...you're like the 'Mr. Blackwell' of spelling...

[bif]

17. Sounds like a skimpy bathing suit you actually wear in the water.

[tjwash]

19. How about a dick, a bush, and a colin...

...are in office right now.

[m-jean03]

20. (v.) to snigger

I always feel bad saying that, cause, you know.

[DrWeird]

22. Alright, this one's highly arguable...

"niggah"

[Streetdoc270]

23. conjugate...

(as seen in the Animaniacs)

[AlienGirl]

25. We are not allowed to usethe word "renege" at work

Not even to write it, lest someone think it is a slur.

Tucker

[name not needed]

26. kite

sorry but it had to be said!

[dolo amber]

28. Spouse

I HATE that word! x(

Sounds like something foul that lives in your colon. Or an incurable disease.


Oh, THAT guy...yeah, he's such a wad of spouse..."

"Man, I saw my doctor today...they're gonna have to run some tests for the spouse." :cry:


:D