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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This is going to lower the tone.
Yet again.
I’m truly sorry. Readers of a nervous disposition should read no further.All these can be Binged but fortunately for the faint of heart I’m not going to give exact quotes. If you don’t believe me, you can take an eye-watering look for yourselves:
circulcision
circumscission (there is a connection between scissor and cisor but this paints the more vivid mental picture)
circum sized
circus sized
circumsliced
(and for the theological)
circumschism
‘Slips, innovations and reshapings’. Never truer words!
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Circumschism would have been great but I couldn’t find any non-intentional examples. Ditto for circumslice. Pity. See also post #18 here.
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I agree with the author that this is an unacceptable tradition, but he/she did not write any comments concerning the other side to female circumschism.His title is: Good tradition or not? Well, what happened to the good part?
from http://www.cheathouse.com/essay/female- … dition-not
After a life that often begins with the female circumschism, proceeds with servitude, obedience, all that hot garb theys gots to wear
from http://perezhilton.com/?p=24786&cp=11
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 954AAUtanB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0AcwpIuFMs
But all the ‘circus sized ‘are the same joke
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2010-07-10 14:33:45)
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OK, Juan, looks good, don’t know how I overlooked those. “Cute” is maybe not the right word here, but circumschism is a very good one.
Last edited by David Bird (2010-07-10 15:04:19)
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