January 07, 2007

Ultimate avoidance


We continue the comic-strip theme with one about the ultimate in taboo avoidance:


(Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the pointer to Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug.)

In case you're curious about slang words using one letter, there's a webpage about them.  But you can collect more instances, not on this webpage, by searching on R-word, T-word, D-word, etc.

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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at January 7, 2007 03:09 PM