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Subject: Re: I don't understand English slang

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 20:56:55 03/24/01

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On March 24, 2001 at 12:53:10, Jay Rinde wrote:

>dickhead  noun [C] TABOO SLANG
>  a stupid person
>  You dickhead - you've dented the back of my car!
>                                                  ( Cambridge International
>Dictionary of English )
>
>I looked it up in a Large American Dictionary, and the worst definition I got
>was a foolish person.  I don't understand what all the ccc people are gagging
>about.  A dickhead can be a stupid or a foolish person.  It might not be good to
>call some one foolish or stupid, but I've been called worse on ccc and no one
>objected.

There was no problem, Bruce was saying he dealt with a few stupid people on the
internet, they were dickheads (stupid, foolish people)

The only objection came from people who would rather attack Bruce, cause he is
Bruce than anything else.



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