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<DIV><SPAN class=288454313-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Okay,
I'll do it...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=288454313-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
hit very close to the mark when you mentioned ebonics. it is a result
of that damned and discredited program, as well as the rap and hip-hop culture,
that way too many young black men refer to all girls as "hos." The word is
a corruption of whore, you pronounce it just like Santa would "ho-ho-ho."
That it's use is so common is just another commentary on the degradation of
society as Bill Cosby as said.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=288454313-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Given
that, I guess a loose translaton of what the t-shirt actually means is
"Literature First, Sex Later."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=288454313-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Alaric </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
elfsea-bounces+glen.d.wilkerson=lmco.com@ansteorra.org
[mailto:elfsea-bounces+glen.d.wilkerson=lmco.com@ansteorra.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Wilkerson, Glen D<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:33
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Barony of Elfsea<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Elfsea] A T-Shirt
for all of our Bards<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=163033213-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ah... Anybody else want to field this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=163033213-21072004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Alaric</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
elfsea-bounces+glen.d.wilkerson=lmco.com@ansteorra.org
[mailto:elfsea-bounces+glen.d.wilkerson=lmco.com@ansteorra.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>ThoraOdottir@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:05
AM<BR><B>To:</B> elfsea@ansteorra.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Elfsea] A
T-Shirt for all of our Bards<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">I guess I am officially "old" now. I didn't get
what the shirt was saying until I read the product write up. I kept
looking at it wondering "What does 'Prose before HOSS'---hoss pronounced
like 'Hoss' on Bonanza---mean?" I guess I need to brush up on my
written ebonics skills.<BR><BR>getting grayer and grayer with each passing
moment,<BR>Lady Thora Olafsdottir</FONT>
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