Euphemisms

[bunn]

Giving my spam bin its not so regular review, I am intrigued to discover that I have received a number of invitations to expand or improve my 'unit' 'thing' or 'item'.

UNIT? Are there really people who refer to their private parts as 'units'? It sounds very Lego, somehow.

I was briefly most concerned about the email with the title 'Sweep and Mop with One Device' but perhaps fortunately for my sanity, this did actually prove to be someone advertising a floor cleaner.

I also got an offer of 'the only right fix for losing the bricks'. I was intrigued enough to actually read that one, but I still don't know if 'losing the bricks' is a sexual or a financial euphemism...

However, the advice 'to grow thinner, diminish your dinner' was right on the money. The essence of all diet books, distilled into 6 words: I didn't even need to read the email, only the title.

Why is it that Korean and Chinese spam features photos of white non-asian-looking people?

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I think we should suggest this as an idea to the Lego people. I'm sure there are millions of adults out there who would secretly love to play with Lego, but are held back by the thought that it's childish. They should start selling X-Rated Adult Lego, in which all the little sticky-out bits slot into... Well, you get the idea.

I'm also amusing myself with silly and inappropriate thoughts involving Central Processing Units, Visual Display Units... and not to mention children learning to count in the classroom, using tens and units...

And I'd better quit this now.

[chainmailmaiden]

Central Processing Units, Visual Display Units... and not to mention children learning to count in the classroom, using tens and units...

*snigger* You're worse than me!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Shocked I am! Yes shocked! At this outrageous ....

Oh hell no one ever believes me ... ;-)