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Great meme, Gatito. When we were children, in the 1940's, We memorised a bucket-full of common sense aphorisms (like the Golden Rule). Another was "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names (words) can never hurt me". I do remember however that certain words could result in my mother "washing my mouth out" with a bar of LAVA soap, if I was to utter them. We noticed that she never applied the oral-cleanse ritual to my father....an application of common sense on her part. The First Amendment became fully operational in our family only upon attaining adulthood.

Apr 4, 2024
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