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Originally Posted by Kegmama
I can't do the vegetarian thing anymore; I enjoy a nice piece of meat in my mouth once in awhile.
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There's an interesting inversion occurs in language whereby the so-called 'euphemism' comes to supplant the explicit object which it seeks to cloak. To wit, the above seems
more unecessary than saying "I like to suck cock" due to the (by now) frail nature of its ruse (viz., this is not 1940).
Glice's loquacious observations, #39.