Comments on: I Swear

By: David in DC

David in DC — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:50:17 +0000

Just fuckin’ nosy, I guess

By: minijonb

minijonb — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:29:22 +0000

David: I work in the same cubicle farm as Rachel… and why the fuck should you care = ; - )

By: dmarks

dmarks — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:47:11 +0000

Seriously, I rarely ever use ‘SH*T!’ or ‘F*CK!’. Extremely rarely. Months or longer might go by in between uses of them. But dammit, I think I say damn too much.

By: David in DC

David in DC — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:30:40 +0000

Yeah she should.

But now we all want details about why the fuck rachel’s IP address would cause her name to appear over your post.

Yup, Wendy, it definitely works for emphasis.

By: minijonb

minijonb — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:12:14 +0000

ummm, Playtah… that last comment was from me, not Rachel. Your blog must pick up Names based on IP address. You might want to look into that.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:10:54 +0000

We would still have these words in a world without evil. Look at the movie Pulp Fiction. I don’t think the line, “Bad M***** F*****” works in a sanitized version.

I’ll swear when it’s appropriate. It’s not an everyday thing, but when needed, I’ll even blog an F-bomb.

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a M***** F****** damn.” — that’s perfect = ; - )

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:18:13 +0000

I’ll have to admit the funniest profanity came from my 5 year old nephew before he could pronounce the phrase ‘hockey puck’ correctly. The grandparents couldn’t quit laughing, which was really odd for them. We managed to correct his pronunciation once we herded the elder generation from the room. Of course I laughed really hard once I left the room. We had the same problem with the word ’sit’, but it didn’t cause the same amount of hilarity.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:52:13 +0000

I was never a big cusser, but obviously the arrival of my young’uns caused me to be even more aware of what words did slip through the lips. But I still have some phrases that I’ve noticed my son has picked up, and they just don’t sound right coming from a seven-year-old.

Things like, “What the …?” I never finish with “hell,” or even “heck,” but it’s clear one of those is intended, even when he says it.

Or “Son of a …” That one’s worse, but thankfully he’s not repeating that one yet.

I play tennis with my pastor, and there’s nothing much funnier than two competitive men playing a sport while trying not to swear — there’s a lot of “Criminy Christmas!” and “For the lovapete!” and “FIDDLESTICKS!” emitting from the court.

By: babybull40

babybull40 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:52:39 +0000

I swear.. I admit it.. I have been told that I swear worse than a trucker..But now that we have our little guy he will pick that up and the last thing I want or need is for him to be swearing.. so I try hard to replace f*ck and sh*t with sugar and fudge…. If I’m around other people that are swearing I tend to swear.. I hvae heard young children swearing and I know that he /she heard from the parent.. or the playground.. it’s amazing how many times I have heard my own kids swear.. not at me.. but at whatever they are doing ie: cleaning their rooms or on the puter…. I do tell them it’s not appropriate.. cause it’s bad enough that I swear.. I’m also sure that they hear it at school.. they are both in highschool.. so they definitely hear it from friends and watching MTV…maybe…

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:13:11 +0000

Grizzy and I don’t cuss.

Much.

Any more.

Actually, we never really did all that much to begin with. And when the kid came along, we became quite creative, because, as mentioned above, we sure didn’t want her first words to be obscenities. (I will NEVER forget my embarrassment at LLBC when my then four year old niece, when asked what kind of cereal she wanted for a bedtime snack, IN THE SACRED DINING HALL, replied “MiniWheats, dammit!” while her parents tried to act all “we have no idea where she learned to say that!” Uh-huh.)

SO we mostly have words like ‘crankshaftin’ and ‘carburetin’ and so on. And I personally like ‘Manzita!’ in place of ‘dammit’ (because Grizzy reminded me that for a while, my kitties undoubtedly thought their names were ‘Smokey Dammit’ and ‘Dammit Penny.’

That being said….when you do not curse much, the rare times when you DO use a big fat fine word….carry much impact. As you have discovered. And there are times when a creative curse just won’t do it.

Think less of you? YOU? noooooooooooooooo way. Neva hoppen.