Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Anything else between "Waadt" and "wyvern"?*

Sign in the background of the Today Show's RNC coverage: "The W is for women."
Me: "I'm trying to figure out what the G and the B are for."



J.: Gays and blacks?—not.
(Can someone think of a catchy acronym? "G____ Women B____"—"Give Women Bupkus"? "Good Women Breed"?† [If it were Clinton or Schwarzenegger, it could be "Grope Women's Behinds," but that seems to be a failing that Dubya doesn't have.])



*The first and last words under "W" in Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary, the Chicago Manual of Style's editorial standard.



†Ooohh, that's harsh. Harsh because it's the largely-unspoken truth behind the religious right's opinion of women, though...

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