'Serenity'
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Spade from "black as the ace of spades" is racist.
"Call a spade a spade" is way older than playing cards. The first use is a Greek play.
Then there's Oscar Wilde in "The Importance of Being Earnest:"
Cecily: When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen: I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
I knew about "spade", but I've only encountered in 19th-century texts. Unlike some other nasties, which you would think would be dead and then keep coming back.
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the phrase "NASA has given the go to connect with the Dragon capsule" sounds like the blurb on the back of an SF book.
I knew about the racial angle to spade, but the most frequent use I've heard is re: cards and shovels.
And some of us don't have friends with weird sex things in their past.
Don't you consider me a friend, tommy?
Don't you consider me a friend, tommy?
I have obviously failed to ask you about your weird sex past.
How do you feel about doorknobs?
I was also unaware of the racist spade connotation. Huh.
Oh wait--I also had two friends, both male, who had sex with their brothers.
How did I forget this stuff?
I have obviously failed to ask you about your weird sex past.
Because I've already volunteered all that information!
How do you feel about doorknobs?
I don't want to fuck a doorknob. Cross that off the list.
How did I forget this stuff?
Freud calls it "repression."
Because I've already volunteered all that information!
I must have repressed it.