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On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:26:23 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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> > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:53:28 AM UTC-7, Gregory Morrow wrote:
> >
> >> There is something new to add to "LGBT", Steve....it's "Q" for
> >> "questioning"...so now we have the sexual potpourri of "LGBTQ",,,plus of
> >> course "heterosexual"...
> >>

> >
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Greg <<<--- "Queer but not 'questioning'..."

> >
> > Reminds me of my innocent mother-in-law. She was interested in what I did,
> > which involved a certain amount of arguing with nitwits. When the outcome
> > did not make sense to her, she would often say "That's queer," in the
> > totally literal sense of the word.

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> I am of an era in which 'queer' meant odd. Used to use '***' to


I *know* what you mean!

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