Re: OFFLIST: Re: Re: The Purpose of this List

From: John Hughes <john.hughes_at_...>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:10:01 +1000

Fellow Tadpoles!

At 04:09 PM 24/06/2008, you wrote:

>Never attribute to malice what may be adequately explained through
>incompetence.

True, this *is* Glorantha.

Or perhaps, the author is a scientologist.

ON the subject of RCA (racially charged acronyms), one should note that the one under discussion has a variety of subtle shadings:

1. Old Blighty: evil wicked furrners with sun tans.
2. Oztralia a) a bug or illness. 'John talks funny cause he's got a wog'.
3. Oztralia b) a southern European. (Stemming from Australian's post WWII immigration: MOB's home town of Melbourne is the second largest Greek-speaking city in the world.) Can be used both abusively or affectionately (e.g. 'Wogs out of Work' stage/tv show), but to paraphrase Joe Jackson, 'Don't call me a wog unless you are my friend'.
4. Scientology. Term of abuse for normals, mundanes, non Tom Cruise types unable to grasp the subtle majesty of Xemu and the Marcabs, i.e. 99.999 % of the world population.

Derivation of most of these terms: golliwog (racially caricatured black doll), polliwog (slimy tadpole) or 'Worthy. Oriental. Gentleman.'

4) is of possible interest, because we are all wogs.

gamers, tadpoles, elitists all ....

Cheers

John

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