Ten times when using the "F word" is probably acceptable....

The_Dunadan · 03-28-2002, 09:16 PM

10. "What the @#$% was that?" -Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945

9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?" -Custer, 1877

8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that." -Einstein, 1938

7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!" -Picasso, 1926

6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?" -Pythagoras, 126 BC

5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?" -Michelangelo, 1566

4. "Where the @#$% are we?" -Amelia Earhart, 1937

3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers....My ass!" -Noah, 4314 BC

2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?" - Bill Clinton, 1999

And .. . . drum roll . . .

1. "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad." Osama bin

Laden, November 2001

-thanx to penguin for da list

fingersman · 03-28-2002, 09:32 PM

hehehehehehehehehehehehehe ralmao

BlueFire · 03-28-2002, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by The_Dunadan
10. "What the @#$% was that?" -Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945

...Seconds before he was vaporized.

Bond · 03-28-2002, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by The_Dunadan
10. "What the @#$% was that?" -Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945
-thanx to penguin for da list

War is not something to joke about. It is a very serious thing.

fingersman · 03-28-2002, 10:25 PM

Your right Bond war isn't funny...but it sure is stupid sometimes if not all the time.

Xantar · 03-28-2002, 11:06 PM

I don't know. Some of those crossed the line for me. War and the death of innocent civilians just isn't really very funny. Most of the others were fairly predictable. The only one that I found humorous was the Bill Clinton one, but even that didn't make me smile or anything.

Then again, I almost never curse.

Ginkasa · 03-28-2002, 11:24 PM

I liked the Noah one. That was hilarious

Happydude · 03-29-2002, 12:25 AM

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Originally posted by The_Dunadan

2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?" - Bill Clinton,

LOL!!!!!!!!!

-apu- · 03-29-2002, 12:26 AM

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GameMaster · 03-29-2002, 01:26 AM

I needed a good laugh

I'll have to e-mail these to my friends

jeepnut · 03-29-2002, 02:31 AM

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Originally posted by Xantar
I don't know. Some of those crossed the line for me. War and the death of innocent civilians just isn't really very funny. Most of the others were fairly predictable. The only one that I found humorous was the Bill Clinton one, but even that didn't make me smile or anything.

Then again, I almost never curse.

I am the same way Xantar. However, there have been situations with certain people where I feel the best way to express myself would be to use one of those words. However, I still don't. I often think it though.

Those words are however becoming so acceptable in our culture that they are beginning to become more ingrained in my mind and it is starting to become difficult to not say them and I can see it becoming even more of a problem for me in the future as I begin to hear the words more and more often.

What do you think of this? What do you guys feel are "appropriate" situations? Are these words becoming such a concrete part of our culture that in the future it will be difficult to avoid using them? Already some television and radio shows allow the use of a** whereas before I would never hear that word on TV. What are your opinions?

sdtPikachu · 03-30-2002, 01:19 AM

Hey, since when was it unacceptable to use the word ****? I use it all the time, and hardly anyone cares any more. The first time I uttered it was at the tender age of 11 in the middle of a deathly quiet maths exam. That was fun.

But then I've never really seen why people get so agitated about "swear" words anyway. They're just words. Which is more offensive? "**** off man, I got work to do tonight" or "You know, you really are the most moronic idiots it's been your families fortune ever to spit out of the shallow end of it's gene puddle"?

Words like **** and **** are just great for being expressive with. I knew this one girl who ****ed this **** and her mum told her she was a ****ing **** and that she'd probably break her ****ing ******, but the donkey didn't seem to mind.

The original "****" list was culled from the humour pages at www.textfiles.com ages back, and resurfaces every now and again with new variations. But I've still never found jokes about nuclear death to be that hilarity invoking really.

Angrist · 03-30-2002, 09:06 AM

... I never swear... and those jokes weren't funny.

fingersman · 03-30-2002, 09:36 AM

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Originally posted by sdtPikachu
Hey, since when was it unacceptable to use the word ****? I use it all the time, and hardly anyone cares any more. The first time I uttered it was at the tender age of 11 in the middle of a deathly quiet maths exam. That was fun.

But then I've never really seen why people get so agitated about "swear" words anyway. They're just words. Which is more offensive? "**** off man, I got work to do tonight" or "You know, you really are the most moronic idiots it's been your families fortune ever to spit out of the shallow end of it's gene puddle"?

Words like **** and **** are just great for being expressive with. I knew this one girl who ****ed this **** and her mum told her she was a ****ing **** and that she'd probably break her ****ing ******, but the donkey didn't seem to mind.

The original "****" list was culled from the humour pages at www.textfiles.com ages back, and resurfaces every now and again with new variations. But I've still never found jokes about nuclear death to be that hilarity invoking really.

Your alive??:eek: :eek: :eek:

Xantar · 03-30-2002, 10:52 AM

I'm not offended by curse words. I just object to them as a writer and sometime public speaker. Most of them are so overused by now that they have lost meaning, and one of the cardinal rules of writing is not to use words that have lost their meaning. Curse words may work to express a strong, very unspecific emotion, but I can almost always think of a better thing to say.