I've got a little list
'Politically incorrect terms which have survived the arrival of political correctness: crazy paving; a lame excuse; dumb waiter; silly putty...'
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Your support makes all the difference.Ten words used by the marketing people to mean "small" but which sound nicer than "small":
Regular
Standard
Individual
Self-contained
Portion-sized
Miniature
Exquisite
Hand-crafted
Designer
Replica
Ten saints whose names we recognise instantly but about whom we know nothing at all otherwise:
St-Tropez
St Moritz
St Bee
Santa Monica
St Neot
St Pancras
St Emilion
Santa Barbara
Saint Leger
San Pellegrino
Ten politically incorrect terms, titles or names which have miraculously survived the arrival of political correctness:
Crazy paving
A lame excuse
Loony tunes
Dumb waiter
Mad Max
Get Shorty
Fats Waller
The Ugly Sisters
The Ugly Duckling
Silly putty
Ten abstract qualities after which no perfume has ever been named:
Savagery
Intolerance
Incompatibility
Melancholy
Despondency
Ambivalence
Anathema
Desuetude
Pettiness
Amnesia
Ten people who, by dying young, can now never be thought of as old:
Sylvia Plath
Marc Bolan
John Lennon
Captain Scott
John F Kennedy
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean
Kathleen Ferrier
Rupert Brooke
Any of the Brontës
Ten people who, by dying old, can now never be thought of as young:
Queen Victoria
Charles Darwin
Ernest Hemingway
Victor Hugo
Laurence Olivier
Thora Hird
Mark Twain
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
WG Grace
Ten things that must be always carried by a jogger:
A sweatband
A comb
A packet of paper tissues
A personal stereo
A bottle of water
A mobile phone
A stopwatch
An anti-dog Mace spray
A spare shoelace
An organ donor card
Ten American words we like to use although we have no real idea what they mean:
Feisty
Heist
Schlepp
Ballpark
Bugbear
Raincheck
Finagle
Picayune
Chowder
Savvy
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