List of Words and Meanings Reunited (was: for sale etiquette?)

Quothe William Donzelli, from writings of Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:26:39PM -0400: If arguing about using the word 'hacker' properly pisses some people off, then they deserve to be pissed off and hackers should take great pleasure in pissing them off. It's called offending the offensive in need of offending. :-) [time for my politically incorrect statement of the week] I vote that we take that word back. No offense to homosexuals, but someone needs to clue them into the fact that they've been using the word 'gay' incorrectly for far too long; they're not the only ones with the right to be called happy people. How that started, I don't know, but it leads one to guess that perhaps, at one time, some of them must have had difficulty with five syllable words, and since the word 'ho', which could have been used as an abbreviation, had already been stolen (from Santa Claus) by some inner-city people, who apparently had difficulty with larger one syllable words, especially those that began with what they thought was the wrong letter, they had to find some other monosyllable word to use. Any other words to add to the list of words to be reunited with their rightful meanings? -- Copyright (C) 2004 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved | My VAX | an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & www.rddavis.org | runs VMS & | her other creatures, using dogma to justify such 410-744-4900 | doesn't crash!| beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.