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Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

We have a somewhat similar joke in English,

Yes, you can read about this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(South_Park)



"The F Word" was the highest rated episode of the thirteenth season of South Park.^[6][9] The episode was seen by 1.99 million households in the subgroup of adults between the ages of 18 and 49.^[9] The episode earned a higher rating than that of The Jay Leno Show, a primetime late night talk show on NBC.^[10] Nevertheless, it was seen by fewer cable viewers than the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy, which drew 2.32 million households; the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which drew 2.19 million households; and a television special about reality show star Kate Gosselin, which drew 2.3 million households.^[

Originally Posted by mishau_

Yes, you can read about this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(South_Park)
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Good observation, mishau! Yes, the "F word" episode of South Park was making the same joke -- that "faggot" sometimes refers to male homosexuals, and sometimes does not.

After thinking about it, I also remembered a Russian анекдот about Ilya Muromets, who comes to a crossroad and sees a sign: "Налево пойдешь -- коня потеряешь, а направо -- п*дором станешь". In the joke, Ilya goes to the left, and doesn't lose his horse, but he soon meets Змей Горыныч and Баба Яга and chops off their heads. He's ready to kill Соловей-разбойник, too, but the bandit says "So, Ilya, you've become a п*дор after all!" (I.e., a п*дор in the Southparkian sense of a "loud, annoying asshole who rides a Harley motorcycle", but not in the sense of "homosexual".)