> > > In all seriousness, why is Tarzan never ever drawn with niples?
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> > huhh-huh, huhhuh, hunh, he said "niples", huh-huh.....
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> In all seriousness, why does the family-content checking code in the RinkForum forbid "n-i-p-p-l-e" but not "d*mn" or "h*ll" ? The former is fairly scientific; the latter two could be allowed since their usage can be theological as well as profane. But it's uncommon to see them used in a proper theological sense, and there are certainly acceptable substitutes, such as "condemn" and "Hades". Maybe it's worth adding them to the content checker.
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> --two minutes elapse--
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> Hmm.
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> Actually, I don't think I'd necessarily want to recommend any change in the content checker, but I am curious about the rationale behind some of what's permitted/restricted. Maybe I'll try typing (but not posting) a test message with various scientific anatomical references, to see where the boundaries are.
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> Anyone remember Beverly Cleary's "Ramona" series of children's books, and the scene wherein Ramona threatens to say a bad word in front of her family? The word was "guts". :-)
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> Iss "the pest" achar

Once when I was teaching in an elementary school a first grader claimed that another student had used a bad word. It took the teacher and the principal a long time to get her to repeat the word, but she finally told them it was "naked."
I guess it's a POV thing.
Howard