"My business and your law practice ought to make a pretty gay team, Dave." - Mark Twain (Century Magazine, Feb. 1894) "I remember" the pearl-clutchers are wont to say, "when being gay just meant being happy." There's a certain defiance to this statement, often leaving me to infer the continuation as "...and people like you didn't exist". … Continue reading Sounds gay, I’m in
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To see you, nice
"The Biggs would call her a nice woman" - Jane Austen (Letters, 1799) Nice is one of those adjectives which, whilst not strictly an insult, I'd be fairly narked to have ascribed to me. It sits somewhere between "meaning well" and having one's "heart in the right place"; to be "nice" strikes me as as … Continue reading To see you, nice