To: 2ndDivisionVet
Card’s essays on this were posted on ornery.org and may still be there. Very thoughtful and reasoned, he’s no hater.
2 posted on
03/21/2013 8:05:52 PM PDT by
DBrow
To: 2ndDivisionVet
faggot comes from the word of English meatballs
fags are the English word from cigs.
I’ve used foggots for years and fags as I;m from there ad I couldn;t careless about the turd poking PC
3 posted on
03/21/2013 8:09:43 PM PDT by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The definitions I have read include a bundle of sticks or twigs or a cigarette.
5 posted on
03/21/2013 8:11:38 PM PDT by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Card is one of my faves. Like Alan Dean foster. Smart people.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“These spindly beta males all secretly see themselves as righteous macho caped crusaders, rescuing the world whether it needs it or not.” Therein lies the fundamental nature of many modern problems.
8 posted on
03/21/2013 8:16:56 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Food.
The Obama admin has released a study that being gay is a health risk .
75% of all carpet munchers are fat.
12 posted on
03/21/2013 8:27:19 PM PDT by
NoLibZone
(I predict the exact same Freepers will hate the GOP Candidate for: 2016,2020,2024,2028, 2032.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
When aliens come to earth after we annihilate ourselves for a bit of archeology, there will be copies of Enders Game found as well as refrences to OSC in whatever records remain. His work is pervasive. What the will not find are any such references to the DC people/management/writers/artists of today.
I’d say OSC wins in a walk.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
14 posted on
03/21/2013 8:29:54 PM PDT by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
![](http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1088624/fag-bearings_fullsize.jpg?ebabc94c")
I've driven past here many a time. Ironic, because of fags we've lost our bearings.
15 posted on
03/21/2013 9:13:07 PM PDT by
Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But while the word “faggot” doesn’t come from “a bundle of sticks,” the word “fascist” does. Yes it does. A fact made clear in the miltary description of bundles of sticks and brushwood to fill trenches/moats as "fascines".
Ftom this the uses was extended to a bundle of anything, such as minced meat.
However use of "faggot" ro refer to homosexualists only dates from USAian usage in the early 20th Century. Which is too late to assert a Mediæval connexion.
17 posted on
03/22/2013 1:48:20 AM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A review of Cart’s essays would reveal his condemnation of legislating from the bench, not the content of the legislation.
19 posted on
03/22/2013 3:37:35 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Brits also have an expression "fag end" which refers to the loose end of a rope (and by extension, a cigarette) or the frayed end of an article of clothing. (It also has a figurative meaning of the end run of manufactured items, usually of poor quality.)
I'll guess the origin is the "loose end" connotation which probably began as a course joke.
23 posted on
03/22/2013 6:44:25 AM PDT by
Oratam
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