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Cruelty to animals, wild, domesticated or pets, though widespread, is condemned by most. A useful step towards achieving more humane treatment would be to stop using animal names in a derogatory context.
For example, politically correct spellcheckers could suggest changes from offensively used animal
names to plant names. The sentence:
"That pig-headed, bird-brained sonovabitch's catcalls and wolf whistles are so much doggone bull shit!"
would replaced by:
"That pine-headed, banana-brained sonovabuttercup's chestnutcalls and willow whistles are so much daisygone birch shit!"
Animal Bring-in
http://www.halfbake...a/Animal_20Bring-in
Love animals? Look at this [DesertFox, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Um, don't you mean "birch *sap*?" |
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I like the definition of political correctness I read recently: "the triumph of sensitivity over reason." |
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Somehow I want to say it was George Stephanopoulos who said that, but that can't be right. |
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"Banana-brain" is already in common use. |
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Plants have feelings too you know? |
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[ferret] its the ones that sulk for days that get my goat. whoops sorry. |
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Can I no longer have a goatee? What about my cowlick? May I still be ham-fisted? What will we use for the genitalia-related references? Are complementary terms still allowed (graceful as a gazell, quiet as a mouse, etc)? |
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sick as a parrot? p, did you mean hamster-fisted? |
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[phoenix]Ah yes, more positive terms! |
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I've heard said of vegetarians: they don't love animals, they hate plants. |
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Would horseradish become radishradish? |
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As a vegetarian, even I think this a bit extreme. |
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Oh, all right, charges have been reduced to 2nd degree plantslaughter |
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In many ways i feel that calling a dog a human would be more insulting to the dog than calling a human a dog. |
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Interesting as I like cats, frogs, and obviously foxes and I don't like their names used in a derogatory way. |
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(However, I have never heard a phrase using frogs as a derogatory.) |
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