[net.nlang] Liver-haters

jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (04/30/85)

> 
> Why isn't there a special name for people who don't eat liver?
> 
> 			John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]

How about "hepaphobes"?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) (05/04/85)

>> Why isn't there a special name for people who don't eat liver?

>How about "hepaphobes"?

Since "-phobe" refers to one suffering from an irrational fear,
the word "hepaphobe" conjures up an image of a mother running
after her child terrorizing her/him with a big piece of liver
that she is waving in her hand.
-- 


Rob Bernardo, San Francisco, California
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