tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post4855377362455676428..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Is this too strong for you?Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-4458081596696785892016-07-15T14:16:28.969-05:002016-07-15T14:16:28.969-05:00You're welcome. Nice job on the contextual asp...You're welcome. Nice job on the contextual aspect of "cuss words." Reminds me of the old nickname for "garrison cap" in the military, never spoken in polite company. But it was spoken casually, with no vulgar intent and little snickering, like FUBAR and SNAFU.<br /><br />So here's an old Chicago joke for you, maybe you've already heard it; feel free to delete in order to maintain decorum...<br /><br />Q: There are three streets in Chicago that rhyme with vagina. Name them.<br />A: Paulina, Melvina, and Lunt.Old Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451689404804634651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-53443218850267300292016-07-15T05:13:28.500-05:002016-07-15T05:13:28.500-05:00Thanks. Fixed.Thanks. Fixed.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22481467686607065192016-07-15T00:09:32.501-05:002016-07-15T00:09:32.501-05:00Uh, that "latest Johnson entry" is from ...Uh, that "latest Johnson entry" is from January, 2015. There have been a few more since then.Old Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451689404804634651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31242394774034547892016-07-13T06:40:10.747-05:002016-07-13T06:40:10.747-05:00my mom once asked me if i could convince my 2 youn...my mom once asked me if i could convince my 2 young sons not to swear . they were like 10 and 6. i told her i felt it was my job to teach them to swear, and maybe she could consider it hers to teach them when it was appropriate. fine young men that they are now, she recently mentioned not having heard them swear in yearsFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-11520797413942093312016-07-12T13:47:15.202-05:002016-07-12T13:47:15.202-05:00sorry, that's clutch the pearls, not cloth.sorry, that's clutch the pearls, not cloth.<br /><br />Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573744927447043137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-64729033345816695892016-07-12T13:46:50.832-05:002016-07-12T13:46:50.832-05:00So of course I had to read the poem, and the part ...So of course I had to read the poem, and the part that caused me to cloth the pearls was<br />"Bosnian folk song"<br />WTF? What does that have to do with copulating while thinking of dead poets?Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573744927447043137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-34535617581741547292016-07-12T08:38:45.982-05:002016-07-12T08:38:45.982-05:00I think Bird's poem goes way beyond cuss words...I think Bird's poem goes way beyond cuss words, but it reminds me of the officers at Tongue Point, Oregon's mothball fleet, to which flocked various foreign Navy personnel to pick up cheap ships, discussing the use or overuse of the word "fuck." They wanted us sailors to tone it down a lot, lest the foreigners think Americans were in the habit of having sexual intercourse with waste baskets, old shoes, dirty hats, and even screwdrivers and hammers.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9433037086994197492016-07-12T08:37:38.646-05:002016-07-12T08:37:38.646-05:00The Lindsey Bird poem is indeed delightful, less f...The Lindsey Bird poem is indeed delightful, less for its shock value than for summoning up so many literary biographical references. And I am grateful for the link to the (current) Johnson piece, partticulaly for his revelations about the sly use of homonyms by otherwise pure-in=heart advertisers.<br /><br />A minor quibble, but your use of "goddam" is probably not a portmanteau, but the accepted usage in the original Johnson's time,as in "Goddamn me Jack,she's wondrous fair," a line from Jonathan Swift's "The Progress of Beauty."<br /><br />The notion of shielding your Mom - or any woman - from indelicate language is becoming increasingly quaint. We are a long way from the time when Mark Twain, on hearing a woman swearing said, "She's got the words, but she ain't got the music."<br /><br />Tom Evans Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.com