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Posted on 04/30/2007 9:15:21 AM PDT by bedolido
A WOMAN'S email to the help desk of Telecom New Zealand was rejected by a computer system because her name was Gay and "inappropriate for business-like communication".
Gay Hamilton, from the northern South Island town of Nelson, said while she was actually gay, she was concerned that the country's biggest public company was spending its time and resources on trifling issues, the Herald on Sunday reported.
"If they do have to put content filters on, then maybe they should ensure that it only gets genuinely abusive words," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I guess we are now required to rewrite all the dictionaries, old songs, Christmas Carols, anything that uses the word “gay”.
signed,
Mr. Porno Viagra Stocks
Oh, for cryin’ out freakin’ loud with a cherry on top.
I think “gay” is becoming an abusive word, at least the people who identify themselves as such.
ROFL!!
She should just change her name to....Lesbian.
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She’d best steer well clear of bundles of sticks.
How’s about this
We go back to ‘gay’ meaning happy and we call homosexuals, ‘homosexuals’.
Problem solved
So, what do they do with people named Dick?
Hey,
Watch it that ‘cherry’ reference.
LOL
Hey,
Watch it WITH that ‘cherry’ reference.
LOL
OOPS
I really don't like the way we've lost words to perversion. Like gay, queer, booty... and now the newest (well for me and old guy) "hit it"
Uh-oh, had a girlfriend in the 60’s in Jr. High named Gay Reeves. As I recall that was a fairly common name for girls back then...before they changed the water. ;^)
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
your kidding... that was her real name? I new a guy from Hawaii named... Kamon Iwanna Layya (I know old joke)
1) The company is not ‘spending its money on trifling issues’. Most likely, they just bought an ‘off the shelf’ content filter. The company itself probably has limited awareness of what it bans and does not ban.
2) The inventiveness of the spammers knows no bounds. The company writing the filters has to constantly update them to keep the 200-300+ daily spam messages getting through to its employees. Or perhaps it is 2000 to 3000? or 20000 to 30000?
3) If the company lets too many inappropriate things get through, they end up with upset employees and possible harassment suits from them.
4) Once the company makes her a ‘known sender of ok mail’, her emails will get through.
This is much ado about nothing.
The same thing they do with women named Ophelia. And don't ask about poor Cock Robin.
He actually changed his last name from “Gay” to “Gaye” to make it look more upperclass and tony.
This is what happens when 1 hi-jacks a perfectly innocuous word.
PC being what it is, within 20 years “they” will declare “GAY” a pejorative and will come up with a new term to describe themselves.
Wonder what word from Webster’s they’ll hi-jack next?
Good point.
The name "Cherry" and all derivatives such as Cherie, Cheri, etc. is now deemed inappropriate for businesslike communication.
It's still OK for strippers, though.
yes and he was shot to death by his dad, Marvin Gay Sr.
Yet another thing to add to my plan for corporate operations. All Human Resources departments should be downsized until they are merely Personnel Offices again. When they became Human Resources they forgot that their primary purpose is to make sure that the payroll and insurance records are accurate.
My favorite story about President Lyndon B. Johnson was when he told one of his aides: “Dammit, just when I learned to pronounce ‘Negro’ properly, they up and changed it to ‘black’ !”
Exactly a prime example of what I meant.
(Don’t get me going on “African-American”....)
It’s already happened. The peers of my 15-year old son all use the word “gay” as a universal insult or slur. It’s the opposite of “sweet” or “tight”
I have an aunt named ‘Gay’. It must be hell to go through life with a name like that. I think I would go by my middle name or something. Of course, once upon a time Gay meant happy.
At this company I used to work for there was a guy named Buddy Fagg. He got mail rejected all the time by our spam filters. We had to eventually whitelist his receiving address. lol
What about “Rump Wrangler”? Is that still cool for business usage?
I've read a couple of biographies and it seems that his father was a very sadistic man who treated Marvin Junior viciously when he was a small boy.
When Marvin Jr. became a successful musician, his father discounted his success and disparaged his achievements mercilessly during family gatherings.
Then, when Marvin Jr.'s career went into a tailspin (partly due to his own failings, partly due to revenge on the part of others) he was forced to move back into his parents' home, where his father taunted him mercilessly.
This time, however, Marvin Jr. was stronger than his father physically and able to strike back harder when his father struck him.
One day, Marvin Jr. gave his father a thrashing, and his humiliated father got his handgun and blew him away.
Horrible family dynamic.
People have used it as a sort of pejorative for a long time. To me, in that context, “gay” means “goonie”, “stupid”, “silly”, etc.
It’s just not really acknowledged yet. The homos still love that word.
At a large aerospace company we had an HR person - Joe Gay, and an engineer Harry Beavers - Needless to say before PC, they took a lot of ribbing - and I don’t mean from Trojans.
We go back to ‘gay’ meaning happy and we call homosexuals, ‘homosexuals’.
Problem solved
Better yet. Let's call them "Sodomites" and "Abominations" which is what they are.
Yet another thing to add to my plan for corporate operations. All Human Resources departments should be downsized until they are merely Personnel Offices again. When they became Human Resources they forgot that their primary purpose is to make sure that the payroll and insurance records are accurate.
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AMEN!
Seen on an actual mail box:
Harry R. Soule
I think I would have left out the R.
People with the last name of “Dick”, are the most unfortunate of all....;)
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
And then there’s this real one, now deceased — Hardin Cox. I kid you not.
Actually, they are derivative of the French cheri/cherie which means "darling", in turn derived from cher/chère meaning "dear" or "expensive" depending on context.
There’s a guy in Britain named Richard Head. His only career option was stand-up comedy.
Why would that name get hit? Or am I missing a cultural reference aside from Hamlet?
Harry C. Beaver.
OB/GYN - Retired
http://www.hcbmdbom.medem.com/ypol/user/userMain.asp?siteID=1717481&logOff=true
And talk about the Old Days marching for their rights in Selma dealing with firehoses and dogs...
What about Chastity?
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