# Did anyone else hear this story?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 4, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960 "2002-09-04T15:02:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Doublemint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doublemint)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/1 "2002-09-04T15:02:14Z")
On Fox news last night they interviewed a woman who is calling for the dismissal of her daughter’s teacher because the woman used the word ‘niggardly’ in class. Oy!!!
The word has \* no\* association with any other word that it may cosmetically resemble, its a perfectly proper word with roots in Scandinavia meaning stingy or grudging and has no other meaning. Why must people be so ignorant? Am I the only one appalled by this story?
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/2 "2002-09-04T15:07:08Z")
I hope she doesn’t get blackballed.
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### Author:  [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/3 "2002-09-04T15:07:30Z")
[Happened 3 years ago](http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/Opinion/a-waspish-niggardly-slur.htm) in Washington DC, as well.
And I’d suspect you’re talking about [this](http://www.dawsonspeek.com/archives/000444.php).
So…
\*Did anyone else hear this story? \*
Yes.
_Why must people be so ignorant?_
I wish I knew.
_Am I the only one appalled by this story?_
Nope.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/4 "2002-09-04T17:18:17Z")
Maybe we should ban all words in schools that have what sound like naughty words in them. Just to be safe
I nominate: happiness, contagious, shih-tzu, dictionary, cockle, cock-a-doodle-doo, asphalt, assuage and glass for immediate banning.
Happy
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### Author:  [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/5 "2002-09-04T18:25:52Z")
How about Damascus? I got a real kick out of that one in 5th grade geography.
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/6 "2002-09-04T18:31:48Z")
I hope no innocent child will ever be forced to read Alexander Dumas again either!
Won’t somebody please think of the children!!
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/7 "2002-09-04T18:41:07Z")
So what’ll we call the Hoover (_expletive homonym[\*\*\*\*\*](http://rogersreference.com/rrhomonyms.htm) deleted_)?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/8 "2002-09-04T18:46:45Z")
Don’t forget Lake Titicaca, the Grand Tetons, blue footed booby, and titmouse! All those should be banned as well!
You get the feeling that some of our earliest ancestors are looking down on us and saying, “I don’t know why I ever bothered to walk upright.”
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/9 "2002-09-04T18:54:17Z")
Oh yeah, and _Nigeria_, that’s a bad word, too!
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/10 "2002-09-04T19:45:36Z")
I am embarrassed to ask for Niger thistle seed at the feed store!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/11 "2002-09-04T20:04:27Z")
Course, I’ve been the dumbass too. Ever suggest to a member of the opposite sex that you _quief_ your drinks and go somewhere?
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/12 "2002-09-04T20:43:11Z")
I guess reading Huck Finn is right out.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/13 "2002-09-05T03:47:01Z")
There’s a thread in GD about it already.
Let’s see, that would rule out:
ball-peen hammer
titular archbishopric
penal code
turbid
prick
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/14 "2002-09-05T03:56:51Z")
Oh, I forgot:
Titian
Balzac
homo sapien
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### Author:  [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/15 "2002-09-05T05:58:34Z")
While we’re at it, let’s just ban all Shakespeare works, as well. thre’s some bad stuff in there, you know.
this stresses me out. I need a fag.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/16 "2002-09-05T06:17:02Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lieu \*
> \*\*Course, I’ve been the dumbass too. Ever suggest to a member of the opposite sex that you _quief_ your drinks and go somewhere? \*\*
No. Just you.
Sorry, _somebody_ had to say it!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-hear-this-story/126960/17 "2002-09-05T12:51:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> So what’ll we call the Hoover (_expletive homonym_ deleted\*)?
My dad said that it was named for Hoover, but they changed it to Boulder because Hoover wasn’t worth a dam.\*
[sub]\*It was re-named back to Hoover Dam in 1947.[/sub]