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To: beckaz

If it was a tongue and cheek satire story...I would have added the humor key word. Unfortunately, this ridiculous story is true and we can indeed laugh at these british liberals. As an epileptic myelf, I never even connected the word brainstorming to epilepsy until I first read this. These idiots overthought the idea that during a seizure there is an "electrical storm" of sorts going on in the brain. It's almost like a short circuit. Leave it to liberals to find ways to make people feel offended.


51 posted on 07/03/2005 9:01:25 AM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz

It is probably the same UK crowd that is trying to get the word "couch potato" replaced as it offends vegetarians.

July 1, 2005

"Weird TV news of the day: British farmers are protesting - and I mean really protesting, with signs and everything - the use of the word "couch potato." They think it makes the potato seem like an "unhealthy" food. They held the protest in Oxford, England, because the protestors had written a letter to the Oxford English Dictionary asking that they reconsider their listing of the word and the definition they used: "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes." They want the term taken out and replaced with the term "couch slouch." "


52 posted on 07/03/2005 9:18:49 AM PDT by bwteim (=Begin With The End In Mind)
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