# Forget "niggardly", fight the homophone agenda **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680 "2014-08-02T22:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/21 "2014-08-03T14:02:52Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > True, but this does seem to be a direct quote. > > \*Woodger says his school has taught 6,500 students from 58 countries during the past 15 years. Most of them, he says, are at basic levels of English and are not ready for the more complicated concepts such as homophones. > > **“People at this level of English,” Woodger says, " … may see the ‘homo’ side and think it has something to do with gay sex.** > > He says Torkildson had worked at the center for less than three months before he was terminated in mid-July.\* I noticed that as well. I thought it was interesting that one was a direct quote and the other wasn’t. It might just be a poorly written article, the author may not have gotten confirmation (or a denial) on the other line or worse, the part you quoted may not be a direct quote either (or the other line is a direct quote and was just not written well). ISTM that since the author did talk to the principal and he did say it was about ‘gay sex’ he should have just left the hearsay line out since it wasn’t really needed to substantiate the claim. I wonder if google cache or the wayback machine can dig up the old blog post. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/22 "2014-08-03T14:14:27Z")
Well, they all sound like a bunch of damned homo sapiens. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/23 "2014-08-03T16:05:33Z")
The mind boggles to think what might have happened if the instructor were an anthropologist and had made a blog post about _homo erectus_. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/24 "2014-08-03T16:09:49Z")
I thank you all for my laugh of the day!😃 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/25 "2014-08-03T19:22:14Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Once, a grocery store I drove past on the way back from a place where I had a regular interpreting gig was advertising on its big sign with those block letters “1 gal homo, $1”; this was before camera phones, or I so would have gotten a picture. I have no idea why it didn’t just say “1 gal milk,” unless they had lost the K or something. It was not the kind of store that had a woo-hippie section that might sell raw, unhomogenized milk. Where were you when you saw it? I am 44 years old and have never seen or heard of milk being labelled or advertised or referred to as “homo milk” here in the United States. “Homogenized” yes, “homo” no. However, “homo milk” seems to be a common Canadianism for homogenized whole milk. Check out the “Tastes like Homo” label on the milk carton seen here: [Homo Milk](http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/26 "2014-08-03T19:53:51Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > True, but this does seem to be a direct quote. > > _Woodger says his school has taught 6,500 students from 58 countries during the past 15 years. Most of them, he says, are at basic levels of English and are not ready for the more complicated concepts such as homophones._ Actually, I think they would be at exactly the stage to be introduced to some of the homophones in English that might bite them in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/27 "2014-08-03T20:25:45Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Where were you when you saw it? I am 44 years old and have never seen or heard of milk being labelled or advertised or referred to as “homo milk” here in the United States. “Homogenized” yes, “homo” no. However, “homo milk” seems to be a common Canadianism for homogenized whole milk. Check out the “Tastes like Homo” label on the milk carton seen here: [Homo Milk](http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html) How about some [Homo Sausage](http://eurasian-sensation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/anyone-feel-like-homo-sausage.html)? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/28 "2014-08-03T20:29:40Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > How about some [Homo Sausage](http://eurasian-sensation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/anyone-feel-like-homo-sausage.html)? I’m not sure I want to know what that is!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/29 "2014-08-03T20:32:46Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Where were you when you saw it? I am 44 years old and have never seen or heard of milk being labelled or advertised or referred to as “homo milk” here in the United States. “Homogenized” yes, “homo” no. However, “homo milk” seems to be a common Canadianism for homogenized whole milk. Check out the “Tastes like Homo” label on the milk carton seen here: [Homo Milk](http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html) Elementary school, mid-60’s, Southern California. The containers of mild were labeled “homo milk.” ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/30 "2014-08-03T20:36:28Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Where were you when you saw it? I am 44 years old and have never seen or heard of milk being labelled or advertised or referred to as “homo milk” here in the United States. “Homogenized” yes, “homo” no. However, “homo milk” seems to be a common Canadianism for homogenized whole milk. Check out the “Tastes like Homo” label on the milk carton seen here: [Homo Milk](http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html) Texas I the 60’s. Our milk had a big HOMO on it no homogenized that I remember. Of course as grade school boys we thought it the height of fun to point it out. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/31 "2014-08-03T21:34:43Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Where were you when you saw it? I am 44 years old and have never seen or heard of milk being labelled or advertised or referred to as “homo milk” here in the United States. “Homogenized” yes, “homo” no. However, “homo milk” seems to be a common Canadianism for homogenized whole milk. Check out the “Tastes like Homo” label on the milk carton seen here: [Homo Milk](http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html) Terre Haute, Indiana, c. 1992. I’m not sure I ever saw milk referred to as “homo,” then or since, but I knew what the sign meant, funny as it was to think otherwise-- it was really the “gal homo” combination that made it. Lesbians work cheap in Terre Haute. Maybe they really did lose the K, and any alternate meaning had not occurred to them. “Homogenized” may have been too long to fit in the space. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/32 "2014-08-03T21:50:18Z")
I saw “non homo milk” offered in a college dining hall. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/33 "2014-08-03T22:23:00Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Er, no; now your school is going to be associated with management by morons. . . . much to the delight of politically powerful Moron Majority. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/34 "2014-08-03T23:20:54Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I’m not sure I want to know what that is!:eek: It’s essentially bologna, but made from fish instead of meat. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/35 "2014-08-04T00:38:56Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Actually, I think they would be at exactly the stage to be introduced to some of the homophones in English that might bite them in the ass. Yes, homophones do have a tendency to do that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/36 "2014-08-04T03:09:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > These puns are all starting to sound the same to me. I don’t know; that James Earl Jones still has a distinctive voice. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/37 "2014-08-04T04:33:23Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > It hasn’t all that long since almost all homogenized milk sold in stores was labeled homo milk. I remember that. Is that not a thing anymore? All our little mark cartons in school were marked “homo milk” in the early 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/38 "2014-08-04T04:35:26Z")
[Homo milk](https://www.google.com/search?q=homo+milk&client=firefox-a&hs=0QW&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ag3fU5jDMoK1iwKwqIHYAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1200&bih=574) is alive and well. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/39 "2014-08-04T05:05:03Z")
I just bought a gallon of milk today at a Dollar General store. The jug is labeled Vitamin D Milk, but the receipt says “Gal Homo”. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680/40 "2014-08-04T05:15:28Z")
> [@susan](#): > > [Homo milk](https://www.google.com/search?q=homo+milk&client=firefox-a&hs=0QW&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ag3fU5jDMoK1iwKwqIHYAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1200&bih=574) is alive and well. Oh, sure, there’s nothing worse than dead milk! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-niggardly-fight-the-homophone-agenda/694680.md?page=3)