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sionnach commented on the word mrs grundy
the ultimate arbiter of stuffy middle-class propriety. From the eponymous character in Thomas Morton's 1798 play "Speed the Plough".
Also appears, as the goddess Ydgrun, in Samuel Butler's "Erewhon".
October 28, 2007