"I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated that job because when they fired me, I still had to show up at work the next day." -Wally Wong
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Bob, you are wierd. ^_^ I'm sure they have perfectly logical etymological reasons for calling it beef rather than deef, but perhaps you should submit your suggestion to the National Beef Council. ^_~
Back in the middle ages there were two villages... East Tallow and Swoc Hills. The villagers were always feuding with each other, and hence, carried into a lot of feuds. Whenever the villagers from Swoc Hills would attack, they'd scream out their war-chant "Deef! Deef!" Of course, the East Tallow kids would cry "Deef!" for fun. It lead to a village-wide ban on the word. In fact, that's why, "The Boy who Cried Deef" was changed to "The Boy who Cried Wolf". But I digress. To this day "deef" is known as a curse word (please excuse my language, by the way). The National Beef Council always perferred "deef", though, because it sounded better. But because of the little bit of history carried over into modern language, in 1939 FDR made the National Beef Council swear not to curse. I would've thought that'd have been impossible, but FDR somehow made it so. I'm not sure why he was so insistent. Maybe he was an East Tallow citizen in a former life.
I would think that American people change so frequently it'd be hard for us to have a fate. I find it funny that our culture changes drastically between decades and even years, while in previous centuries things stayed pretty much the same for a long time.
Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. When you comin' home, Dad? I don't know when, but we'll get together then. Ya know we'll have a good time then.
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Feed 'em deef?
Feed me deef!
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Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
When you comin' home, Dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then.
Ya know we'll have a good time then.
That song?
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