Sticks and Stones
Len Kiely, the Deputy Speaker of the Northern Territory (Australia) Parliament, has decreed that it is improper for MPs to call each other “buggerlugs” as that’s “unparliamentary language” which is not “gentlemanly.” Terry Mills, the MP who had used the term, withdrew it. The N.T. Speaker in 2001 had decreed that the term “dickhead” was acceptable, and that remains the case. “Buggerlugs” is defined as a “mock abusive term, used affectionately,” the newspaper noted. (Northern Territory News) ...It’s also noted that the newspaper didn’t bother to define “dickhead”.
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