SoCal schools ban dictionary: hoax?

So what? It’s a dictionary, a book that lists most of the words in common use. So what if it also has the words “penis”, “vagina”, “orgasm”, and “oral sex”? Why deprive a child of the joys of finding stuff out for themselves because of a handful of words that aren’t obscene except in the minds of a few people who find sex distasteful?

And, for the record, the dictionary in question is the same one I gave my seven-year-old. If he wants to spend time looking up “dirty” words, more power to him.

I always felt pretty grown-up when I looked up things in the Collegiate dictionary when I was in elementary school.

BTW, IIRC, it defined “oral sex” as “cockgobbling and/or cuntmunching”.

How is this not happening in Texas then?

They can’t read?

d&r

I’m sorry, that book has been banned. Please report to the principal for re-education.

Comrade, that book never existed. Saying that the Party “banned” something is doubleplusungood. You need to join me in my re-education.

Mine defined “cunnilingus” as “carpet munching”. I couldn’t figure out why anyone would want to eat a rug.

Ask your mom.

I did. She told me to ask my dad. :smiley:

That’s not what I heard…

Apparently the ban has been repealed, although parents can “opt out” their kids.

“Sexy Dictionary”… I like it! It sounds like smut talk.

“Hey, baby. Be my sexy dictionary. Lexicon me up! Go all Funk & Wagnalls on me!”

.

Ha! :smiley:

Well, there’s the “sleeping dictionary!”

[/QUOTE]
A young and naive Englishman, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), goes to the British colony of Sarawak, Borneo to try and apply his father’s work to the Iban society. He tries to civilize them, building schools and providing education for the Iban people. He is met with unfamiliar local customs. Selima (Jessica Alba) becomes his “sleeping dictionary,” who sleeps with him and teaches him the language and the habits of the locals.
[/QUOTE]

Well, no wonder you have no words! They removed the dictionary! :slight_smile: