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# quality jingoism and racial stereotyping
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:43, archived)
# what exactly is
jingoism?

post401 hee hee
(I helped save b3ta! Dill, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:44, archived)
# Dictionary.com
defines Jingoism as:
            Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism


word of the day is:misnomer \mis-NO-muhr\, noun:
1. The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment.
2. Any misnaming of a person or thing; also, a wrong or inapplicable name or designation.

Morning sickness is a misnomer -- it can strike any time.
--Jane Bartlett, "Sick, and tired of it," Guardian, June 20, 2000

Copy cat is a misnomer because cats never copy anybody.
--Carl Van Vechten, The Tiger in the House

The distinction between monkeys and apes is still muddled in the popular mind: Chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans are still frequently called "monkeys," and very good monkeys, such as Barbary "apes" and Celebes black "apes," continue to carry their misnomers.
--Noel T. Boaz, Ph.D., Eco Homo
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:48, archived)
# I'd expect you to know
that lot of the top of your head
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:51, archived)
# I did know that off the top of my head
I was just finding it a little difficult to articulate it

                              lie
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:55, archived)
# Ooh
That's a little discombobulating
(I helped save b3ta! Penile, Fri 28 Mar 2003, 19:52, archived)