watch that language

It is amusing to see our messages being rejected by super-sensitive filters.
The latest is Sean's description of someone pinning back the long leaves of an agave using the spine at the end. I think I have found the offending word that stopped his message from being received by some members in the U.K. I have to be careful of my language here. Perhaps if I write it with a big space and a ? between, it will be analysed as two innocent words. "back ? side". If this message also is rejected, I will know that I didn't fool the filter.
I don't always manage to figure out why a message has been rejected because of its content. One of the other offensive phrases that I do remember being rejected is the Latin term for a black pine. I'll use the Victorian method of dealing with nasty words: P___ n___
So folks, besides being knowledgeable about plants, we also need to know and avoid slang terms from various English-speaking countries. 

Diane Whitehead
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