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Good news: The Palestinian Authority released a Palestinian journalist who apparently had been locked up because his reports offended Yasser Arafat.
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
I was offended by the language employed by Alex Heard in "If At First You Don't Secede," his portrait of the participants in the Republic of Texas movement.
Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.
Legend has it that she walked around the office barefoot, brought her dog, Shit, to work, and offended Abe Rosenthal's sensibilities (who doesn't these days?)