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With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar
New York Times ^
| February 18, 2007
| Julie Bosman
Posted on 02/18/2007 3:25:16 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.You gonna die, Roy.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:26:34 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: billorites
That's funny coming from the same people who demand unfiltered porn on library computer terminals. Its much ado about nothing.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:28:33 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: billorites
The books heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum. A moose once bit my sister on the scrotum.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:28:36 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Pure calculation on the publisher and author for publicity. It worked!
This stuff is now marketing 101 stuff with the media as the conduit.
If they can milk it, more power to em.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:29:34 PM PST
by
zarf
(Her hair was of a dank yellow, and fell over her temples like sauerkraut......)
To: goldstategop
"The word scrotum does not often appear in polite conversation."Nor does it often appear in poetry given the difficulty of finding a rhyme.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:30:29 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotumI take it, it wasn't the dog who was named "Lucky"
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:30:35 PM PST
by
digger48
To: humblegunner
People have already seen the famous bared breast at the last Super Bowl. We're supposed to be shocked at a part of the male antomy? Puhleeaze!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:31:02 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: humblegunner
A moose once bit my sister on the scrotum.That wasn't your sisters scrotum, she's so old her thang looks like a wizards sleeve.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:31:25 PM PST
by
zarf
(Her hair was of a dank yellow, and fell over her temples like sauerkraut......)
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To: humblegunner
"A moose once bit my sister on the scrotum."
Moose bites can be pretty nasty, you know.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:32:07 PM PST
by
YoungAmerican84
(Honorary member of the World Zionist Conspiracy)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:33:05 PM PST
by
MrLee
To: Fstrt5
"[Y]ou wont find mens genitalia in quality literature -- at least not for children. I've had my nose in a good book a time or two, but that's about it.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:33:47 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
I hope you guys remember the little boy on Wonderama, around 1965, who insisted that an octopus had eight testicles.
Sandy Fox was really flummoxed!
To: billorites
Determining what is age-appropriate is, in itself, a subtle form of censorship.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:35:45 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: billorites
For God's sake, this is a perfectly acceptable, correct scientific word. My kids knew the proper words for body parts when they were five or six (though we tended to continue using the baby words for some years afterward). I don't believe for a moment that school librarians are fainting with horror over a word like scrotum. It's one of the favorite places mooses have for biting sisters so it must be okay. There are a lot of other words for places mooses bite that would not be okay for elementary-school kids.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:35:49 PM PST
by
Fairview
( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
To: humblegunner
"Mom! My dog's butthole got run over."
"That's rectum, Son."
"Wrecked him? Heck, it killed him!"
To: humblegunner
That must have hurt like a b******.
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:36:29 PM PST
by
Fairview
( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
To: billorites
Its good to know libs want to protect the little ones - when they aren't indoctrinating them in sex in the publik skrool.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:36:39 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: billorites
Nor does it often appear in poetry given the difficulty of finding a rhyme. I'll give it a try:
A snake bit my dog on the scrotum
His nuts hurt so much he can't tote 'em
But this limerick I pen
Ain't for kids six through ten
If the libs want this crap, let's outvote 'em
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posted on
02/18/2007 3:37:56 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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