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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I'm visiting my in-laws on a Pennsylvania lake, and that means I get my father-in-law's annual speech about how "gay" used to be a perfectly good word till its meaning changed in the 70s. </p>
<p>"Wonderful great, happy, Each one has a gradation and a distinctive meaning. We've lost in my mind what it meant and it was a very distinctive word. There is no word that replaces it in the English language today. There was a cmmon expression, we used then for someone who was a bit of a party boy, he was a gay blade. </p>
<p>Why of al the words in the English language did they have to choose that one. It's ridiculous to use that word.<br />
Merry lighthearted it's none of those things. Why couldn't they come up with their own word.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm visiting my in-laws on a Pennsylvania lake, and that means I get my father-in-law's annual speech about how "gay" used to be a perfectly good word till its meaning changed in the 70s. </p>
<p>"Wonderful great, happy, Each one has a gradation and a distinctive meaning. We've lost in my mind what it meant and it was a very distinctive word. There is no word that replaces it in the English language today. There was a cmmon expression, we used then for someone who was a bit of a party boy, he was a gay blade. </p>
<p>Why of al the words in the English language did they have to choose that one. It's ridiculous to use that word.<br />
Merry lighthearted it's none of those things. Why couldn't they come up with their own word.</p>
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