Teski
French, short for prude femme, virtuous woman : Old French prude,
feminine of prud, virtuous; see proud + French femme, woman (from
Latin fmina. See feminine).]
Word History: Being called a prude ... has a noble past. The change
for the worse took place in French. French prude first had a good
sense, “wise woman,” but apparently a woman could be too wise or,
in the eyes of some, too observant of decorum and propriety. Thus
prude took on the sense in French that was brought into English
along with the word, first recorded in 1704.
The French word prude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier
in Old French prode femme), a word modeled on earlier preudomme, “a
man of experience and integrity.” The second part of this word is,
of course, homme, “man.” Old French prod, meaning “wise, prudent,”
is from Vulgar Latin prdis with the same sense. Prdis in turn comes
from Late Latin prde, “advantageous,” derived from the verb
prdesse, “to be good.” ...
First I want to say that I in no way find anything offensive about
the pic, but apparently it can cause problems for people who work
in the States.
A lot of people are allowed to use the internet at work there, but
the thought police have put their grimy fingers in, and if anyone
passes by a desk and takes offence to anything they see on your
screen, you get instant dismissal, no appeal, nothing, the sack!
Horrendous, but that's what comes of allowing fascist measures to
reach the statute book.
So unfortunately it probably is not a good idea to embed posts like
this, and we do neeed to make sure that Phil's rules are adhered to
very strictly indeed, in fact, that is likely why they specify what
they dop about posting pics.
It's a darn nuisance, but we can't risk people being dismissed.
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Regards,
DaveMart
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LOVE the way this thing handles.
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