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This morning I did a research report on a famous man in the world of horse racing, and the SCANDAL that is his love life, which includes an ex-wife who owns a racing stable called the [Name Retracted] Stud Farm.

I just sent the report to my boss, who works across the corridor from me. A few minutes later I heard her voice drift hesitantly out of her office.

Boss: So....a stud farm...that's a...horse racing stable?
Me: Yeah, it's a breeding farm. Male horses of breeding age are put out to stud.
Boss: They're studs.
Me: I think it's where the term came from.
Boss: Oh...kay...
Me: You sound nervous.
Boss: No, I'm just...going to assume the high-level VP who's going to be looking at this report will know that...

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[mysid.livejournal.com]

Suburbanite here, and I can't remember not knowing that a stud is a male horse used for breeding. (But I did go through the whole reading books about horses phase.)

This reminds me of the time--long, long ago--that one of my stories got banned from FF.net because I used the word "bitch" in the summary. HOWEVER, I had clearly used the term to refer to an actual female dog, not as a derogatory term for a woman, so the ban was completely uncalled for. It was like they didn't know that there was an original meaning.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I once had a piece of software chide me for my language, informing me that "black" was not the appropriate term for African-American and that "cat" was a derogatory term for a woman. Pity that I was referring to a feline of the very dark persuasion at the time.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

[Snorts] Idiot programmers.