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Bennigan's says, "Tell Your Mouth to Quit Being Such a Pansy"

by Vincent Fischer (TheConstitutionrules [at] hotmail.com)
This flip card advertising their Buffalo wings was on the table at the Bennigans I went to tonight. It says, "Tell Your Mouth to Quit Being Such a Pansy"
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In fact "pansy" is a disparaging remark for homosexual men, as well as effeminate men and boys.


Pansy
Pronunciation: 'pan-zE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pansies
Etymology: Middle English pensee, from Middle French pensée, from pensée thought, from feminine of pensé, past participle of penser to think, from Latin pensare to ponder -- more at PENSIVE

1 : a garden plant (Viola wittrockiana) derived chiefly from the wild pansy (Viola tricolor) of Europe by hybridizing the latter with other wild violets; also : its flower

2 a usually disparaging : an effeminate man or boy b usually disparaging : a male homosexual

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pansy


Bennigan's Guest Relations
6500 International Parkway, Ste. 1000
Plano, TX 75093
800-727-TELL
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