# Innocent words that need to be banned. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542 "2011-09-16T18:24:35Z")\ **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:** [September 17, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/21 "2011-09-17T13:12:18Z")
> [@saje](#): > > With the exception of moist, none of the words in the links register on my ICK meter. Ditto for me. In fact, I clicked on the first link, saw the word moist and then got distracted in a conversation about (I swear to god) the pulpiness of our fresh squeezed orange juice and why it wouldn’t work for a particular application that a customer was asking about…then I went on to read the rest of the page and saw the word pulp. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/22 "2011-09-17T13:35:54Z")
**Moist** : How else to identify a follower of Chinese philosopher [Mo Tse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi)? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/23 "2011-09-17T18:34:14Z")
The all-revulsion band: Moist Crampon and the Panties ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/24 "2011-09-17T20:17:14Z")
Damn you, twickster! You made me waste too much time on that site and now my ribs hurt from laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/25 "2011-09-17T21:00:56Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > **Moist** : How else to identify a follower of Chinese philosopher [Mo Tse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi)? I suppose that works, once you know he’s not a larryist or a curleyist. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/26 "2011-09-18T00:07:01Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Panties, on the other hand… _\_ I can hardly type it I hate it so. A very tinny sort of word. Not like prodding. Or caribou. Those are good, woody words. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/27 "2011-09-18T00:55:17Z")
Turgid. Just… Eww. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/28 "2011-09-18T17:03:31Z")
Try teaching Germans to say the word “rural”. It just doesn’t come out of their mouths. One of my students gave up and said, “…it sounds like what my German Shepard would growl if I accidentally kicked him with my foot…” ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/29 "2011-09-18T19:45:41Z")
What’s wrong with moist? I have dry hair and dry skin so I like moist. I hate panties though. But what else can you call them? ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/30 "2011-09-18T19:46:35Z")
Knickers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/31 "2011-09-18T19:58:10Z")
The OP’s linked article is completely insane. There’s nothing wrong with any of those words. I can’t think of any words, in fact, that I find objectionable based the reasons offered in that article. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/32 "2011-09-18T20:50:00Z")
> [@newme](#): > > Cuz no guy wants to touch anything ending in “-ampon.” And in French, “tampon” just means “stamp”, “pad”, or “swab”… you know, the kind of moist pad you would saturate with ink to use with a stamp. [sub]Sometimes, having a visual imagination is a curse…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/33 "2011-09-18T20:51:33Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > Knickers. 🙂 Not icky, just quaint, like using the abbreviation “viz.” to mean “that is”… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/34 "2011-09-18T21:06:08Z")
“Tampon” is the affectionate name residents of Tampa, Florida have for themselves. I’m not making this up. A “Moist” is a follower of Moe, one of the _Three Stooges_, a fan of _moe._, or a disciple of Moe The Bartender in _The Simpsons._ ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/35 "2011-09-18T21:32:34Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > The OP’s linked article is completely insane. There’s nothing wrong with any of those words. I can’t think of any words, in fact, that I find objectionable based the reasons offered in that article. I agree. The disagreeableness of the words arises solely from the contrived and overreaching explanations, which impute semantics that are merely idiosyncratic to the author. So yeah, after reading those explanations, they might be objectionable–but only then, really. This is lexical rubbernecking, and nothing more. ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/36 "2011-09-18T21:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > “That anime starfish is slurping the shit out of Bulbosaur’s dick.” This made me shoot orange juice with pulp out my nose and scare the dog.😃 ---
**Author:** ![ballardfam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@ballardfam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ballardfam)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/37 "2011-09-18T22:18:30Z")
Condiments - for some reason I can’t say the word without pausing midway. Like, “condom…ents”. Just me. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/38 "2011-09-18T22:38:48Z")
flaccid. miasma. torpor. palimpsest. pimp. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/39 "2011-09-19T00:31:33Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Try teaching Germans to say the word “rural”. > It just doesn’t come out of their mouths. > One of my students gave up and said, “…it sounds like what my German Shepard would growl if I accidentally kicked him with my foot…” Ha! Amateurs. The best entertainment value come from getting Thais to say “rural.” ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542/40 "2011-09-19T01:48:20Z")
**Unction** > [@](#): > > Dogs woof, cats meow, and poop-badgers rural This made me think of Steven King’s shit-weasels who must surely unction after the poop-badgers rural. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-words-that-need-to-be-banned/596542.md?page=3)