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[MIKolbe]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='02 June 2010 - 04:44 PM' timestamp='1275511455' post='2122836']
To the chump, all is chump.


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
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I have no retort. you win.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='02 June 2010 - 02:35 PM' timestamp='1275507300' post='2122806']
Scrabble is a natural and perfectly wholesome game. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/annoyed.gif[/img]
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That is quite true, and when I posted awhile back that sometimes Scrabble is just Scrabble, I was overruled.

I'm sure glad that "I" wasn't the first one to mention Scrabble. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/whistle.gif[/img]

By the way, this isn't the first time I have heard Scrabble used as a euphemism for "the marital embrace." (I'm probably the only one who feels this way, but "the marital embrace" wins my award as one of the top 10 "mealy-mouth euphemisms" ever, along with "right-sizing"--meaning you're going to fire people.) [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbdown.gif[/img]

[CatherineM]

I have played strip poker, but never scrabble. Have to give that a try.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='02 June 2010 - 05:08 PM' timestamp='1275512910' post='2122847']
I have played strip poker, but never scrabble. Have to give that a try.
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+1 for teh awesomes.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='02 June 2010 - 04:00 PM' timestamp='1275512405' post='2122843']
By the way, this isn't the first time I have heard Scrabble used as a euphemism for "the marital embrace." (I'm probably the only one who feels this way, but "the marital embrace" wins my award as one of the top 10 "mealy-mouth euphemisms" ever, along with "right-sizing"--meaning you're going to fire people.) [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbdown.gif[/img]
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You don't like my favorite euphemism.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='02 June 2010 - 05:08 PM' timestamp='1275512910' post='2122847']
I have played strip poker, but never scrabble. Have to give that a try.
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I thought we were using Scrabble as a euphemism for the marital embrace, not talking about it as a vehicle for it. TMI, Catherine, TMI.

[CatherineM]

The strip poker was completely innocent. I was playing with a group of priests and seminarians. I never lose at poker, so was under no danger.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='02 June 2010 - 05:19 PM' timestamp='1275513593' post='2122851']
The strip poker was completely innocent. I was playing with a group of priests and seminarians. I never lose at poker, so was under no danger.
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If I was not scandalised before, I am now.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Raphael' date='02 June 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1275513410' post='2122850']
I thought we were using Scrabble as a euphemism for the marital embrace, not talking about it as a vehicle for it. TMI, Catherine, TMI.
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[quote name='CatherineM' date='02 June 2010 - 04:19 PM' timestamp='1275513593' post='2122851']
The strip poker was completely innocent. I was playing with a group of priests and seminarians. I never lose at poker, so was under no danger.
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[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='02 June 2010 - 04:26 PM' timestamp='1275513978' post='2122855']

If I was not scandalised before, I am now.
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I don't even know what to say.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='02 June 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1275513392' post='2122849']
You don't like my favorite euphemism. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/weep.gif[/img]
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Oh, I like it. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img] I just don't like that euphemism. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbdown.gif[/img]

To me, it sounds an awful lot like the kinds of words used by Evangelical Protestants. But, if you don't mind sounding like an Evangelical Protestant.....

God created sex, and, in the proper time and context there is nothing sinful about it--in fact it's fun. I can see watching your words when you are around children below the age of puberty. But, otherwise, I prefer not to use euphemisms, if possible, unless, as in the "Scrabble" thread, we were making a joke. For thousands of years people have been making jokes about sex when a couple gets married. We are simply continuing an ancient tradition. At least we didn't put bells under their bed, as they do in some traditions.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='02 June 2010 - 05:38 PM' timestamp='1275514735' post='2122860']
Oh, I like it. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img] I just don't like that euphemism. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbdown.gif[/img]

To me, it sounds an awful lot like the kinds of words used by Evangelical Protestants. But, if you don't mind sounding like an Evangelical Protestant.....

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Or like Karol Wojtyla...

[quote] At least we didn't put bells under their bed, as they do in some traditions.[/quote]

No there's a prank! I know in Elizabethan England, it was common for the family nurse to show the family the blood on the sheets.

Little creepy, personally...

[tinytherese]

According to a documentary that my high school world civilizations teacher had us watch, some people of nobility or whatever would sat in the bedroom where King Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette, as a Daulphin and Princess first consumated their vows as some tradition. At least sheets were hung over the bed so that they didn't derectly see the act, though even then .

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Raphael' date='02 June 2010 - 04:51 PM' timestamp='1275515515' post='2122866']

No there's a prank! I know in Elizabethan England, it was common for the family nurse to show the family the blood on the sheets.

Little creepy, personally...
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That's common in other traditions, as well, and I find it equally creepy (and demeaning).

One problem with that particular tradition is that there isn't always blood, even if the bride is a virgin. So, then the bride and groom have to cut their finger or something, so the bride won't be "shamed."

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='02 June 2010 - 05:58 PM' timestamp='1275515912' post='2122872']
That's common in other traditions, as well, and I find it equally creepy (and demeaning).

One problem with that particular tradition is that there isn't always blood, even if the bride is a virgin. So, then the bride and groom have to cut their finger or something, so the bride won't be "shamed."
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Yeah, stupid traditions. I read somewhere that the Puritans believed gestation took exactly 36 weeks, meaning that if you gave birth on a Sunday, you were guilty of profaning the Sunday 36 weeks previous by committing the "necessary evil" of sex on a Sabbath.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Raphael' date='02 June 2010 - 05:06 PM' timestamp='1275516365' post='2122876']
Yeah, stupid traditions. I read somewhere that the Puritans believed gestation took exactly 36 weeks, meaning that if you gave birth on a Sunday, you were guilty of profaning the Sunday 36 weeks previous by committing the "necessary evil" of sex on a Sabbath.
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That reminds me of something from [i]The Office[/i]. Pam was giving birth in the afternoon, and Michael comments that "Sometimes you gotta have that afternoon delight," implying that Pam was giving birth in the afternoon because the Jim and Pam had partaken of the marital embrace in the afternoon.