euphemisms

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• once more, with feeling

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 613
  Microsoft employee gets fired for not saying Bing! . Don’t know if it’s true, but it’s gorgeously entertaining.
  2 days ago

• Real Estate Euphemisms

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 136
  Homes with "Great Personalities" -- & Other White LiesEvery sales-related profession has them: euphemisms intended to put a positive face on what most people would agree is a negative.In that spirit, here is a "conversion key" to some of the most popular real estate terms today:What the listing says: quick closing ...
  5 days ago

• 4 Tips for Writing Sex Scenes, pt 1

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 433
  Sex scenes are hard - pun intended. Theyve become nearly essential to a good romance. Writing one that is believable and heated can require a lot of effort. If youre uncomfortable it shows and turns off readers. So where does one start? By remembering that the sex scenes are for and about your characters and not ...
  1 week ago

• Power is not a means; it is an end... The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

  
  This will hurt me... — Authority: 135
  Sometimes all a man needs is to sit back, relax, and eat his squid .squid,
  1 week ago

• euphemisms of disturb

  
  passive-aggressive notes dot com — Authority: 534
  Our submitter in Dublin, California was leaving her apartment for work one morning when she found this syntactically-challenged note stuck to the door. “I assume my anonymous complaining neighbor has the wrong apartment number because A.) My husband and I do not have children and B.) For all but one of the dates ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sexy Romance versus Erotica Romance

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 433
  This post is in response to Historical Romance - How Much Heat is Too Much? The original post is by Evangeline Collins , author of Her Ladyships Companion (releases in May 2009). In the comments I explored what I thought made the difference between a sexy romance and an erotica romance and then I thought it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dog Food : Ice Cream :: MSN Search : Bing [Euphemisms]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 881
  Microsoft is sick of the term dog food. Why? Because its the term used to signify software a company tests on its employees before its ready for release. Eating your own dog food, essentially. So...
  2 weeks ago

• I miss George Carlin

  
  Politics, Economics, Religion and People — Authority: 144
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  3 weeks ago

• I miss George Carlin

  
  FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments — Authority: 716
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  3 weeks ago

• Those who want to clone and kill embyros in SD waffle on strategy

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 420
  For a few months the deceptively named group "South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures" has been ramping up toward their petition drive to put an Initiated Measure on the ballot that opens the now shut door in South Dakota to cloning and experimenting on human embryos. As was reported last week in the Rapid City Journal ...
  3 weeks ago

• The "drifter" and the "bug man."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 713
  The Daily News reports, in straightforward prose: The straphanger killed by an exterminator gone mad was a mentally ill germophobe who used his bag to keep people at a safe distance, friends said Sunday. "He didnt like people to sit next to him," said Phenix Hall, a volunteer who befriended Dwight Johnson at a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boy, Thats One Expensive Powder Room...

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 613
  What are some common euphemisms in older literature? Im reading Breakfast at Tiffanys right now and noticed how"money for the powder room" is used as a polite way to say that she is accepting money to be a mans companion for the evening. What other phrases like this have been used to dance around an unseemly topic? ...
  4 weeks ago

• "We sort of have well-placed objects in front of the frontal...Theres like hockey sticks, shirts..."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 713
  No, those are badly placed objects, Levi. People wanted to see what that thing you call your "frontal" looks like.
  4 weeks ago

• Is an Avera vs Sanford battle brewing in SD over embryonic stem cells?

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 420
  Internationally recognized stem cell expert Dr. David Prentice is in South Dakota for a few days to smack down (with hard science) the bait and switch false claims of Dave Volk, Nathan Peterson and Mitch Richter of the so-called South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures. That these are the same Daschle/Planned ...
  4 weeks ago

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