[plug] OT: the grinding hand wrote, and having grit, moved on

[Leon Brooks]

Alex Polglaze wrote:
> BB wrote:
>> Nil desperandum carborundum (Don't let the baskets grind you down)...
>> A bit of bastard latin, from the 1970's...

Why is my next word always "ummm..." after reading one of these?

Bret, satisfy my curiosity: why did you censor the first "bastard" and
not the second?

> NIL BARSTARDO CARBORUNDUM from the 1950's. Must have been politically
> corrected.

Uh, I heard it as "Nil Illegitimus Carborundum".

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