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Thursday, July 6, 2006
6:16AM - "slow children"
I've been attempting to do a project in a sort of meandering, half-assed way, but one of my biggest problems is material. Specifically, I need euphamisms for "retarded"--things like "rides the short bus". Prodding google only nets me the obvious things like "special" which aren't quite right for what I'm trying, though I'll take them. So, anyway, I googled for naught, and my will was thwarted, and I sat back wondering exactly where on earth I could go to find the sort of people who would both readily know that kind of thing and I could stand to interact with.
And then I thought of JournalFen.
Anybody got a spare euphamism?
ETA: The longer and more idiomatic, the better. My current personal favorite, for example, was acquired from an English bloke: "very good with animals".
11:48AM - Grrrrr
This makes me angry in ways I can't even put into words.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_
11:34PM
So I've had this idea for an academic essay forming in my head for a while, and I can no longer leave it alone. But I need some help first. Mainly, I need suggestions of ambiguous characters. (Ex. Severus Snape - Good guy, yet snarky bastard.) They don't necessarily have to be good guys either. Lex Luthor from Smallville is another good example of this.
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