Dear Anonmyous Visitor

Dear Anonmyous Visitor,

Thank you for your kind words:

New comment on your post #44 “Penelope Cruz”

Author : jeremy david (IP: 24.69.78.43 ,
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you’re a fag.

New comment on your post #49 “Nobel Peace Prize”
Author : jeremy david (IP: 24.69.78.43 ,
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Are you 12 years old?

I love hate mail. And this situation is funny because I bet you actually came back to my website and are reading this. ZING!

However, I think you need to work a little on your insults, because your words left no bitter taste in my mouth. Lets start with “You’re a fag.”

“You’re a fag” is probably the worst insult you could have come up with. If someone is gay and you call them gay, their thought process will be something along the lines of “Yes, I am gay.” That’s it. They don’t care. If someone is not gay, they will simply say “No, I’m not a fag.” Either way, kids stopped saying that when the left the playground.

Here’s the Oxford English Dictionary’s take on the word:

1. That which causes weariness; hard work, toil, drudgery, fatigue. colloq.

2. a. In English public schools, a junior who performs certain duties for a senior. Also transf. a drudge.

b. Cricket. A fieldsman. Obs.

3. attrib. as fag-day, -partner (cf. fagging partner under FAGGING ppl. a.).

4. Something that hangs loose; a flap. In quot. attrib. See also FAG-END.

5. = FAG-END in various senses.

6. dial. a. An odd strip of land. b. Odds and ends of pasture-grass.

7. A ‘knot’ in cloth.

8. A parasitic insect which infects sheep; a sheep-tick; hence a disease of sheep. Also, sheep-fag. dial. attrib. fag-water (see quot.).

9. a. The fag-end of a cigarette. b. A cheap cigarette. c. Any cigarette (the current use). Also attrib., as fag card, a cigarette card; fag hag (see quot. 1945).

Ahh, here is the definition you were looking for. It’s in reference to one of the many definitions of faggot, or fagot.

1923 N. ANDERSON Hobo vii. 103 Fairies or Fags are men or boys who exploit sex for profit. 1931 ‘D. STIFF’ Milk & Honey Route 205 Fagot or fag, a road kid with homosexual tendencies. 1932 HEMINGWAY Death in Afternoon 298 Maricón, a sodomite, nance, queen, fairy, fag, etc… Interested parties..are continually proving that Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, etc., were fags. 1939 R. CHANDLER Big Sleep xii. 90 A stealthy nastiness, like a fag party. 1957 J. KEROUAC On Road (1958) III. v. 206 The car belonged to a tall, thin fag. 1964 ‘L. EGAN’ My Name is Death v. 49 You can’t tell the fags from outside looks.

Ooooh, stealthy nastiness – sounds fantastic.

In response to Are you 12 years old?. No. I’m 21. If I were twelve, I doubt I would know who Tina Turner is. Or, for that matter, have a website in the first place. I think what you were trying to say is you are immature – which I cannot deny.

I think a more fitting insult would have been: Your letters are not funny. And to that, I agree whole heartedly.

Anyway, I sincerely thank you for your comments and I implore you to do so again.

Many Hugs,

Jeremy David