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Show SLANG USERS GETOUR GOAT Ye Editor Gets Into Conversation With College Graduate, and Fails to Understand Modern Language. It gets our goat, but nevertheless the present age is too fond of slang. An intelligent conversation is impossible. impos-sible. Where ever you go, whomever you meet, it's always slang, slang, slang. You do something clever, create cre-ate an impression. Then some one tells you that you win the celluloid fire bucket. We ask you now, is that right? They topit by saying you're the pollywog's eye tooth. It's wrong. I should hope to comb the hair on a cocoanut! Where do you suppose such .things will lead? There's really no telling. Everyone is addicted to the habit. A charming young lady informed us the other day that we were the kangaroo's socks. We deny it. Such a thing is absurd. She said we won the red flannel golf clubs. We don't want them. Really we don't. We should hope to poke a dot! If only we could escape this sort of thing! There seems no outlet. No matter whom we meet, they talk vulgar vul-gar slang. They murder the language. lan-guage. It's pitiful. What do we care if some one thinks we are the elephant's ele-phant's ear muffs? We don't wish to hear it. Nor do we care that we have secured the barbed wire mattress. mat-tress. It's distressing. We should hope to tickle an octu- pus. Really, we arc going to beg of our friends that they be charitable. They grieve us with this vulgarity. It's hardly compatiable with the pursuit of a liberal education to state that some one is the sea lion's bathrobe. It is so trivial. Some prohibitive measures should be taken. Imagine how discomforting it is to be told that you won the corrugated ice skates! This must stop. We should hope to tweak a butterfly's but-terfly's nose I |