Ec wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
>Aphaia wrote:
>>I have been claiming the page which contains
the obscene word
>>mentioned should be deleted because of its obscenity and making
>>editors who are really working on there displeased.
>The word "dick"? As those of us who are
native speakers of English
>suggested: how about moving the page to "Don't bowdlerise Meta."
A euphemism of a euphmism!
I've always viewed "Don't be a dick," as a >polite way of saying
"Don't
be an asshole." :-)
As the page now points out, the original term was actually "fuckhead",
as per
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/fuckhead.html .
- d.