Date:    Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:10:23 -0800
<br>From:    Judi Sanders  jasanders[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CSUPOMONA.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: THIS X SUCKS
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<br>Well, this is anecdotal as well but it is a very specific memory.  In 1970 (I'm
<br> almost certain of
<br>the date because I was a senior in high school) my boyfriend and I were shopping
<br> in a store in the
<br>small town where we grew up (Roseburg, Oregon).  On the background music came a
<br>Johnny Cash song that had a line like "that dirty old egg sucking dog."  We were
<br> completely
<br>scandalized by this and couldn't imagine that that word would be used in public.
<br>  Even though this
<br>was obviously not a sexual context usage, we were sure it really was in some
<br> oblique way because
<br>that was what that word meant!  That I remember this so vividly after nearly 30
<br> years should be
<br>evidence of the very shocking nature of this event!  I'm confident that if my
<br> high school peers were
<br>surveyed, virtually would say the word was "obscene".  Roseburg was a pretty
<br> conservative place . .
<br>.
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<br>Judi Sanders
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