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Old 03-02-2010, 05:44 PM   #8161
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And did you advise them to use that (so-called) "satanist" logo?
There was such a fuss about it in the 1980s, mostly made by fundamentalists.
wait, what now ??? soap with a satanist logo ??? i must google that immediately !!!

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Slaithwaite = Slough-it
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But thankfully, Barnsley, which is God's own country, is just Barnsley!!
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Old 03-02-2010, 05:44 PM   #8162
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And did you advise them to use that (so-called) "satanist" logo?
There was such a fuss about it in the 1980s, mostly made by fundamentalists.
Weren't they behind the tampon slayings?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor_and_gamble

Toxic shock syndrome and tampons
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Old 03-02-2010, 05:50 PM   #8163
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wait, what now ??? soap with a satanist logo ??? i must google that immediately !!!
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp
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Old 03-02-2010, 05:52 PM   #8164
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Click image for larger version Name: Symbol-With-Stars-Satanic-Amway-PG.jpg Views: 356 Size: 90.9 KB ID: 46949

The rebuttal:
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-r012.html

And the Landover Baptist Church's stance (!):
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?p=333621
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:00 PM   #8165
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To make up for it, English grammar is, I am told, simple compared to most languages.
If nothing else inanimate objects are neither masculine nor feminine

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Place names too. My local favourites are

Happisburgh
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it baffles me how you get that from "happisburgh" but okay
Some-one I used to work with got fed up with explaining that although the place she came from sounded like it ended in either 'borough or 'bruh; it actually ended in 'burgh. This was apparently mostly to non-natives, but sadly to some natives too (the place concerned was Edinburgh...)

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and Slough rhymes with cow.
For which there is no grass to graze
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:03 PM   #8166
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well crikey, i'm convinced !! vade retro, procter & gamble !! i mean my golly, it's just *staring you in the face* when you look at that logo !! isn't it ?

that is some hilarious stuff.

thanks for the links. i was just reading the snopes article while you were posting them but i notice the wikipedia article has been edited to remove any mention of the incident (it still is mentioned in the snippet in the google results, but it's not even in google's cached page). and i hadn't found that page about whether or not "asprin" is satanic. (the user titles on that forum are terrifying. particularly since i get the feeling they're not actually chosen by the users. actually that entire thread is terrifying.)
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:04 PM   #8167
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Leicester= Lester
Gloucester=Gloster
Mainwaring=Mannering
and Slough rhymes with cow.
Well, try these names:
Zepheniah
Shoshannah
Zipporah
Hephzebah
Zechariah
Schiphrah
Zedekiah
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:06 PM   #8168
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Psst! Zelda! Landover Baptist is a tongue-in-cheek humor site
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:07 PM   #8169
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actually i know that, but it still scares me. (i find it funny too. but scary.)
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:51 PM   #8170
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First names too, like Hermione in the Harry Potter books. I got through 2 and half books pronouncing it as "her me own"

Yeah why is there an "o" in there? And why is it "boot" is pronounced T-R-U-N-K?
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:55 PM   #8171
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Yeah why is there an "o" in there? And why is it "boot" is pronounced T-R-U-N-K?
It's HER - MY - OH - KNEE, it doesn't work without the 'o'.
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:57 PM   #8172
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Yeah why is there an "o" in there? And why is it "boot" is pronounced T-R-U-N-K?
As in "the trunk is on the other 1/3 of a metre"?
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:58 PM   #8173
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As in "the trunk is on the other 1/3 of a metre"?
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Weird pronunciations? I think my favourite is a home-grown Aussie effort. Goonoo Goonoo is a town in NSW, pronounced GUNna guNOO. Surely it gets extra points for having two different pronunciations of the same word within the one name... right??
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