[Peace-discuss] Obama gets another one right

[E. Wayne Johnson]

  *dictionary.com has this entry:

goos?y*
--adjective goos?i?er, goos?i?est.
1. 	like a goose; foolish or giddy.

2. 	Informal.
a. 	ticklish; reacting very quickly to touch.

*b.* 	*nervous; jumpy; uneasy.*


Also, goosey.

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*Origin: *
1805--15; goose <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=goose&db=luna> 
+ -y <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=-y&db=luna> ^1


Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Naw, y're making that up... and/or reaching. Ya lost this one, kid.
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/26/09, E. Wayne Johnson /<ewj at pigs.ag>/* wrote:
>
>     From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
>     Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama gets another one right
>     To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
>     Cc: "Bob Illyes" <illyes at uiuc.edu>, loriserb at loriserb.info
>     Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 7:34 PM
>
>     goosey - nervous, jumpy, uneasy
>
>     Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>     A little goosey?? What does THAT mean?????
>>
>>     --- On *Mon, 1/26/09, E. Wayne Johnson /<ewj at pigs.ag>/* wrote:
>>
>>         From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
>>         Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama gets another one right
>>         To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
>>         Cc: "Bob Illyes" <illyes at uiuc.edu>, loriserb at loriserb.info
>>         Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 5:17 PM
>>
>>         We all get a little goosey about some of these questions.
>>
>>         Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>>         Took this off peace-discuss, but couldn't resist the
>>>         temptation to say I think Wayne's been goosed, and to thank
>>>         Bob for doing it (honk if you like puns... and gays).
>>>          --Jenifer
>>>
>>>         --- On *Mon, 1/26/09, Bob Illyes /<illyes at uiuc.edu>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>             From: Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu>
>>>             Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama gets another one right
>>>             To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>>             Cc: loriserb at loriserb.info
>>>             Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 3:45 PM
>>>
>>>             Wayne writes "As a biologist, I really do view the practice of a homosexual
>>>             lifestyle as a pathological behaviour. A speedy recovery is hoped for."
>>>
>>>             But if you look to nature, Wayne, you find homosexual behavior in other
>>>             species. It is not common, but there is no evidence that it is pathological,
>>>             i.e., that homosexuals are in general either damaged or dangerous. Most of the
>>>             damage done to children is done by heterosexuals, simply because they are the
>>>             larger group.
>>>
>>>             Konrad Lorentz studied homosexual behavior among greylag geese extensively. In
>>>             this animal, it is speculated that the threesomes that form (two males and one
>>>             female) are better able to protect the young, and it is thus a trait that has
>>>             been selected for. I don't think we should be in the business of calling a
>>>             trait a pathology when we don't know why it exists or what its advantages
>>>             are. Nature is often wiser than we are.
>>>
>>>             One of the dead ends of "natural law" was the notion that a trait
>>>             existed for one purpose only. If sex existed for reproduction, it was argued, it
>>>             should not be used for other purposes. But this is simple-minded, isn't it?
>>>             Yet behind all of the arguments about sexuality and reproduction lurks the same
>>>             simple-minded notion that there is only one thing going on, and to mess with
>>>             that one thing is to mess with the one God.
>>>
>>>             If this is a right notion of God, then God is definitely a guy, and like most
>>>             guys  has trouble with doing more than one thing at a time.
>>>
>>>             Bob (definitely a guy, and definitely not God)
>>>
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