"They burned the witch on a pile of faggots."
"How did they get them to hold still long enough to burn?"
"They tied the witch to a stake."
"Not the witch, the faggots!"
How old were you when you learned what the original meaning of faggot was?
The past is another country, and it speaks a different language.
A pile of MiG-15s? That seems a bit impractical.
ReplyDeleteOh, and you misspelled FAGOT.
;-)
I knew the original meaning before I knew about homosexuality. I first spotted a reference to it in an old MAD Magazine collection. That reference was pretty hostile, and I don't think the modern, wussed-down MAD would dare do any such thing.
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