Oh, hell, we have had endless threads on when one can write or say "nigger"; or could do in previous periods and contexts, e.g. in great works of literature from previous ages like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn or Pudd'nhead Wilson, say. Have we ever reached any sort of consensus. Are we going to now? In a pig's ear, we are!

~M~

Honest, now ~~ anyone had a really genuine fit of the vapours or the heebiee-jeebies or any such at my having typed out all those six letters above? Have the heavens clouded over with thuderclouds? Will the grass never grow again within 100 yards of my WP? Oh, come on...