First dude to blame for Troopergate

OK, Jim, let`s work through this one. In latin based languages, adding -ette or -elle generally implies a female whereas -el or -et. The joke was, 'why does the male of the bread species have the vagina and the female the penis'

I was thinking that you actually were asking a serious question; and I think in etymological terms on the meaning of words, prefixes and suffixes.

So just what in the hell is a bagu anyway and why are there male and female bagus? Are their offspring bagels?

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-ette
a noun suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French, where it has been used in a variety of diminutive and hypocoristic formations (brunette; cigarette; coquette; etiquette; rosette); as an English suffix, -ette forms diminutives (kitchenette; novelette; sermonette), distinctively feminine nouns (majorette; usherette), and names of imitation products (leatherette).

Compare -et.
 
You should, you`ve been saving them up long enough.

Damn, should have kept that line for the booger thread
 
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