So Long Su**ers!

 Zibbi told me one of her classmates ended the call with the sassy farewell, "So long suckers!"  The next time her teacher started a Zoom, she informed the class that this type of language cannot happen at school.  She was going to explain what language which she was referring, but then told the class, she could not even repeat it.  

This anecdote has tickled me all morning.  (Don't get me wrong, I totally get that the teacher has to enforce certain principles and did not want to reinforce the use of the word by stating it herself.) Benja and went on a riff imagining a world where the adult says, "Ok, I'm thinking of all the words, I don't want you to say.  Now, just make sure you don't say THOSE words..."