>were originally for housewives, and 90210/dawson's creek are for some >species that I have yet to identify. WWF is for people that like their >soap opera delivered from a wrestling ring. To each his own. Young people with no brains, and lots of money on the pocket - or at least= wanna-bees ;o))) >Thats not to say that I like WWF, I've merely come to recognize its >right to exist. Barely. I like it - it is just FUN. I know the fights are not true. You know the= fights are not true. The ones who think the fights are true, just begin to= have fun when they realize that the fights are not true. Everything is a= "kid's play", and there is the fun of the thing. At least this is what I= see ;o) >I'm willing to bet that the very same question was asked about the >hippies not too many decades ago. Easy to answer, look to Jinx ;o) > >Why do people do that? If you leave enough letters there to know what >the word is, you might as well have just written it out. Not that it >really matters, it just strikes me as silly. > Hmmm, I'll say something polemical, but true - there aren't bad words. There are people who are convinced some words= are bad. You have lots of ways of speaking about the same thing. Some are= considered beautiful. Some are ugly, some are just inappropriate. But if I= speak inapropriate portuguese words here, no one (which is not brazilian= or speaks portuguese) will understand and maybe think it is funny. And= more: In Brazil and Portugal, that shares the "same" portuguese, some= words become totally different, a common example is "pica" who in= brazilian portuguese signals the...eh...the masculine difference, you= knows, and in portugal' portuguese means a shot. Words are not bad. Our mind make them bad. Only one word comes to my mind= when I think about it: Hypocrisy. ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- Alexandre Souza taito@terra.com.br http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/pinball/ ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body