What is “straight edge”?
That’s me: never done illicit drugs. Ever. Use in a sentence: Adam is so straight edge, Jason put X marks on his hands. • What is a PASSLQ? Would you believe I have a separate web page describing what a PASSLQ is? To paraphrase William Safire, a PASSLQ is a Person of an Appropriate Sex Sharing Living Quarters. Safire invented the word to counter a word used by the U.S. census bureau for two people living together but not married, POSSLQ (which would be, Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters). Safire said that “POSSLQ” was an offense to the 10% of Americans who happen to be gay (not to mention those of us who happen to be happy), so he suggested that the census bureau use PASSLQ instead in a New York Times column. I’m not sure if they eventually adopted it or not; I assume no, since you know how the government likes to do anything to keep gay people from being happy. People don’t like me to use the word, because it’s an homage to William Safire, plus 97% of people who hear
