Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
JLH wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:52:55 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Bob Smith wrote:
If you are offended by his communications, why not just kill file
him.
I have..........yet he continues with his assault via email.

He's taking about killfiling his e-mail address. Just as easy as
killfiling a newsgroup poster.

If he morphs, just block the IP range that his ISP uses. Can't
morph through that.
The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers could.

"It's Morphin' Time!!"

LOL! (Again!)

This morning I woke up to find this huge thread about a one-liner I sent
Jimmy, and I've been laughing my ass off for a half hour now!

Seriously, though, one of us just may be very homophobic, so be careful
with the gay stuff!

The word homophobia was rarely used early in the twentieth century to
mean "fear or hatred of the male sex or humankind". In this use, the
word derived from the Latin root homo (Latin, "man" or "human") with
the Greek ending -phobia ("fear").

In its more recent usage, dating from 1969, "homophobia" derives from
the -phobia ending applied, not to the Latin root "homo", but to a
shortening of homosexual. (Here, homo comes not from the Latin for
"man", but from the Greek for homosexual.) It was used by clinical
psychologist George Weinberg, who claims to have first thought of it
while speaking at a homophile group in 1965, and was popularized by
his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual in 1971. When asked about
the meaning of the word in a 2002 interview, he said:

"Homophobia is just that: a phobia. A morbid and irrational dread
which prompts irrational behavior flight or the desire to destroy the
stimulus for the phobia and anything reminiscent of it."

A possible etymological precursor was homoerotophobia, coined by
Wainwright Churchill in Homosexual Behavior Among Males in 1967.

Tom,
Is there going to be a test on all of this information?

Eventually.

I do grade on a curve though.