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To: jagusafr
Like it or not, the meaning of words can change.

When I was a kid, "booty" meant gold/jewelry/treasure looted by pirates. Ghetto trash have inflicted a different meaning on the rest of us.

7 posted on 03/03/2011 2:10:06 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

“When I was a kid, ‘booty’ meant gold/jewelry/treasure looted by pirates.”

It still means that, in the proper context. I never think of rump-shakin’ when I read it in a pirate story.


67 posted on 03/04/2011 12:15:28 PM PST by Tublecane
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