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To: username who wrote (10143)	4/22/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

In 1977 I distinctly remember the class punk calling me a "wussy". Now he was not the kind of fella inclined toward the innate beauty of wrenching on the English language. So I must presume that the term is even older than that, and entered popular usage in the long hair/minibike/early tobacco adopter culture in the interim.

To: username who wrote (10143)	4/23/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Pete -- Then why were we using it in jr. high school in western PA in the 60s? With, of course, the same meaning - pussy being too crude to be used in mixed company (my, how things change)... I also saw it in print in an issue of the Nat Lamp, ca 1971. Sounds to me like one o' them cultural flashbacks we been hearing about lately, proof positive that there is a reason for the success of Titanic, the Spice Girls, and Bill Clinton. BTW a local radio station jock described Clinton as "JFK out of the closet..."