Date:    Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:01:25 +1000
<br>From:    Ross Chambers  maelduin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OZEMAIL.COM.AU 
<br>Subject: Unparliamentary Language
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<br>reply regarding odd e-mail characters from the ADS-L list owners,
<br>forgive me if this procedure is ineffectual.
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<br>Subscribers may find this specialised list of banned words, from the
<br>Sydney Morning Herald, of interest:
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<br>"One of the world's smaller and more obscure societies--The Society of
<br>Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments--regularly publishes a
<br>list of expressions ruled unparliamentary. These include, from Canada,
<br>gerbils, scabs, wounded hyena, bums, half-wit, jackass, bandits, rats,
<br>crooks--and my own favourite (the writer is an ex MP: Gordon Bilney,
<br>rc), the euphonious hurluberlu, Quebecois for airhead.
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<br>New Zealand contributes Neanderthal, laboratory rats, (suffering from)
<br>mad cow disease, quisling, racist prick, shonky, fat Mexican, irrelevant
<br>dork and fishwife, while from India come mad dog, bully and brute,
<br>thief, dirty fellow, crooks, sewer-like minds, sinners, lunatic, rascals
<br>and, intriguingly, masturbation.
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<br>The mother of parliaments is tame by comparison, though lickspittle,
<br>shysters and imbeciles are up there, and Baroness Bonkers in honourable
<br>mention class."
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<br>The Australian Federal Parliament Speaker recently spent some time at
<br>our expense disallowing "web of deceit" as unparliamentary, while
<br>admitting "deceitful" in the speech in response. It's all in the
<br>phrasing!
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<br>Kind regards - Ross Chambers
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