# Of assholes and dicks

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**Created:** [February 27, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-assholes-and-dicks/487697 "2009-02-27T18:43:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-assholes-and-dicks/487697/14 "2009-02-27T20:35:43Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> Help me out here **Ed** –Why “dick” and not “asshole”? Why “asshole” and not “ass” (from an earlier decision)? I don’t think I’ve _ever_ been warned–and in part, that’s 'cause I understood the rules and followed them.
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> I’ll obey every rule you give (or quit posting if the rule is too noxious, I suppose) but _first you have to tell me what the rule **is** _!

One is sexual and one isn’t. I was trying to limit the Bad Words list to a small number. If you’d rather, though, we can include the whole laundry list of words like asshole, bitch, shithead, and so on. Other than not having a rule at all, I’m open to different ways to do this. Maybe we should just have a list of Bad Words you can’t direct at another poster, while of course retaining a rule against unspecified “hateful remarks,” to cover the rare case of one of those comments that makes you gasp but doesn’t use any of the proscribed words. How’s that?

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