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#1 2007-11-13 20:12:48

llwynn
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Registered: 2007-11-13
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supposed/spouse (what women should look like)

From a student paper: “Here an office full of attractive women, complying to the high standards of what women are “spouse” to look like…”

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#2 2007-11-14 09:02:01

booboo
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Re: supposed/spouse (what women should look like)

was the original in quotes?

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#3 2007-11-14 21:52:48

jorkel
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Re: supposed/spouse (what women should look like)

Good point booboo. Maybe it’s just a mispelling of ” ‘spose.” Sometimes when people misspell a word, they end up spelling what looks like a word …only it’s the wrong word.

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