I'm trying this out here, but it may wind up on PWEC. Hopefully not.

I was watching my local morning news today. They did a segment on an initiative being pushed by PETA to replace animal references connected to negative traits in or activities of humans. According to them, using these words demeans the animals and promotes "human superiority" (their words, not mine...they were carrying signs). The words and their recommended replacements listed in the report were:
chicken - coward
pig ------- repulsive
rat ------- snitch
sloth ---- lazy
snake -- jerk

Now, grammatically speaking, pig and sloth becoming repulsive and lazy doesn't work. Pig and sloth are nouns and repulsive and lazy are adjectives. They're simply not interchangeable parts of speech.


Unrelated to the above, I was eating some Kentucky Fried Coward yesterday when my cat walked into the room with an enormous snitch in its mouth. I didn't want him to eat the snitch, so I took it outside. No sooner had I thrown the snitch into the woods than a jerk snatched up the snitch and slithered away with it. Copperhead Jerks and Cottonmouth Jerks are very common around here, but this was just a common Garter Jerk. Anyway, when I got back inside I found that my cat had eaten my coward.

Both the snitch and the coward would be alive and well if you had left some tofu around.

Cats and jerks seem to thrive on that stuff.

Most witty vonBaur!

Bricktop would clarify 'greedy as a pig' for them as a righteous statement though. If they objected to the term he'd 'ave their Jacobs orf.

'Put the kettle on'



Though ze Nazis would be in a lot of trouble, saying such things offensive such as "For you ze war ist over, Englisher Schweinhundt!"

I couldn't care less what PETA thinks.

Thank you for the correct usage of couldn't care less rather than could care less. The latter is a pet peeve of mine.