QRZ.com name

[KE5FRF]

Just wondering if anyone has ever took a close look at the q-code "QRZ" and read it as a word minus any vowels. I sincerely am just kidding here, making light hearted humor, but I wonder if anybody has ever GOOGLED the word gay or homosexual and gotten a link to QRZed?
Just something to think about...LOL

If the preceding comments offend anyone, I am sincerely sorry, I just found it humorous.

[W5HTW]

"Gay" used to mean bright and cheery. The word was hijacked. So hush, before they hijack QRZ and some of our other Q-signals.

Ed

[KE5FRF]

Well, queer used to mean odd or unusual, but that word was hijacked too...LOL.
Sorry folks, I just couldn't resist the temptation to post topic. I'll probably be banned for doing it.

[KG4CGC]

And before a fag was a smoke it was a bundle of 10 sticks, but a pervert has always been a pervert.

[W2ILP]

Pinnochheio was made into a real boy by a Blue FAIRY....before I knew that a Fairy is usually gay.
IMHO a streight beautiful fairy (who is not an old fairy godmother) is the only kind that could make a man out of a boy.
Go figure.

w2ilp (Intolerance Looks Perverted)...There are no queers or gays just minority same sex partners.

[WA5KRP]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Sep. 12 2005,17:09)]Sorry folks, I just couldn't resist the temptation to post topic. I'll probably be banned for doing it.
http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/image/foto/18-4-2003-9-1-fokker_g.1_jachtkruiser_going_down_in_flames.jpg

Makes perfect sense. A lot of work goes into keeping this website a good place to visit. It's doesn't take much to derail those efforts.



WA5KRP
Texas

[k6pme]

All these words are taught in the grade schools. What the problem?

[K9STH]

When I was in the 2nd grade one of the reading textbooks was called Smokey the Crow. Now Smokey was definitely a gay bird. He was happy all the time. Now some of his friends were queer, that is they were a bit on the "unusual" side.

Both words appeared at least once on just about every page of the textbook and sometimes more often. However, that was back in the 1950 - 1951 time frame when those particular words still had their original dictionary meanings.

There were other words as well which were used all the time which today have completely different connotations.

I don't remember anything from my 1st grade reader, My New Friends (known the world around as the "Dick and Jane" book) that used any words that are no longer accepted in "mixed company". Believe it or not, I still have the copy that my parent's had to purchase when there was a fight from some residents of our neighborhood not to be annexed into the city. The school building was annexed but not the houses right around us. That lasted 6 weeks before the neighbors gave up and the neighborhood was annexed into the city. But, for those 6 weeks we had to be bussed across town and out into the country to the only elementary school that was still run by the township.

Now the comic strip "B.C." sometimes had some "take off" from the My New Friends book. My favorite of all times was during the time of the Berlin Wall when Peter was reading from the textbook:

Look, look, look.
Look and see.
See Jane.
See Jane jump.
See Jane jump the wall.
Jane has defected!

Glen, K9STH

[AG3Y]

See Spot run !
Run Spot run !
Run Run Run !#

You can "see spot run" at this URL

See Spot Run ! (http://www.tagnwag.com/dick_and_jane.html)


Oh brother, do I ever remember those primary readers !

Thanks for the memories , Glen ! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[N8CPA]

In Catholic schools, Dick and Jane were David and Ann. But the sentence structure was pretty much the same. David and Ann's family was very Catholic. They said The Angeles at appropriate times, and The Regina Coeli, according to the Church Calendar. And they prayed the Rosary everynight.
We didn't do that in my blue collar family. Quite a disconnect!

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (N8CPA @ Sep. 12 2005,22:44)]In Catholic schools, Dick and Jane were David and Ann. But the sentence structure was pretty much the same. David and Ann's family was very Catholic. They said The Angeles at appropriate times, and The Regina Coeli, according to the Church Calendar. And they prayed the Rosary everynight.
We didn't do that in my blue collar family. Quite a disconnect!
The Catholic school I went to used "Dick and Jane" but there were more than the 3 books that are on the website. I think we went through over a dozen while learning. I didn't think they'd bring back memories, but they did. Thanks Glen and Jim. Too bad something so innocent and useful was left by the wayside.

[KG4CGC]

Probably is no longer considered PC. Dick and Jane have become something like Josh and Jennifer and Spot is now Lily. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[WA2ZDY]

I just read N8CPA's post about David and Ann to my wife who went to Catholic school her entire education. She's nodding with "fond" remembrance. She says she also remembers Dick and Jane though too and for CPA not to feel bad, her family wasn't like David and Ann's either.

In the not so distant future, Jennifer and Josh are going to become Steve and Bob . . .

[kf6rdn]

How about Beaver Cleaver? The clean cut kid of the 50's would be today's porn star.

[KG4CGC]

Quote[/b] (WA2ZDY @ Sep. 13 2005,08:41)]In the not so distant future, Jennifer and Josh are going to become Steve and Bob . . .
Along with Sasha and Chloe'. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif