[TR] pressure of various sorts

[jimmuller at rcn.com]

Re "the TR oik filter?" Jonmac wrote:
> Hey, this has to be the 'twin' to fluif!!!!!?

Indeed I used the term intentionally a few weeks ago as a parallel to fluif.  Though it may be called a twin to "fluif" it is decidedly not identical, "fluif" being of so much more substance, a word with more gravitas.

> But in UK slang, the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries
> respectively describe the term 'oik' as "an uncouth or
> obnoxious person" and...

To this, Dave M replied:
> Although I trust that Jim is, in person, a gentleman the
> dignified fellow, I also believe that "oik" is exactly the
> persona he is trying to portray here on the list.

He!  I thank you for the "trust" part and I feel compelled to point out that one could read many interpretations into the "belief" part!  I would not dream of portraying anyone else here as uncouth or obnoxious.  People may form their own opinions as to whether I portray myself that way; it is surely not intentional.

More to the point, I am always amazed at the variations in slang between the two people separated by a common language.  Profanity is the most dangerous of the shifting ground.  Words in common usage in the US, used even as names, words with no taboo component whatsoever, are (apparently) forbidden in civil society across the Pond.  Yet I have heard dialog on British TV which would result in serious fines from the FCC here in the US.  What's a --- person to do?  I frequent neither the OED nor the CED; I have visited London and Oxford and a few points in between but not Cambridge.  One cannot navigate without a point of reference.

As for LBC content, the --- driveshaft flange on the GT6 will be -------- soon, then I just have to --- -- the -----, put the --- in and install the ---, and with --- it --- be ready to --- before -- ------- ---- --- hot.

-- (oh, sorry, make that ---)
Jim Muller, trying to be civil