May 12, 2010
These are a few of my favorite things
(From Esquire July 2008.)
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- Joel Bernstein: I know right?
- Rick Neece: Being nice is a dainty way to put it.
- Rick Neece: Hey Cristopher? Who cried “uncle” first, at the end of your ten-year stand-off? To quote my...
- Michael Smith: Ours is the kitchen.
- Amy Mabli: That’s what happens when you give the dogs the bed.
- Deron Bauman: Sweet Jesus.
- Michael Smith: Don’t we all.
- Pam: I have a story coming out soon in a ‘little mag’, Chicago Quarterly Review. An old friend recently...
- Pam: And I thought, somedays, that my work was meaningless…
- Pam: I remember Eggleston at the Art Institute in Chicago a couple years ago. He was elegantly dressed in a dark suit...
- Christopher Walken: Hey Clusterflockers, Realize y’all are hurting. I’ve been a really close friend of my...
- Marco: This works pretty well in mobile, more so in iOS
- Michael Smith: It was not the intent of management to imply all sissies are “namby pamby”. Management was...
- Rick Neece: I take umbrage with the term “namby pamby.” Some sissies are fierce.
- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
oh hell yes.
Lauren! I’m so glad you’re here!
I can’t stop looking at this graph. I love the way son of a bitch is all snuggly with bastard.
Cindy, thank you! And I actually thought of you when I posted this because I remember reading that ‘cunt’ is one of your favorites (mine too), and it sadly didn’t take the list. Actually, there is a dearth of C-words on this one.
I’m weirded out that God is considered a swear word.
I’m not.
Lauren, I’m touched that you would think of me in this context.
Please note that this graph tracks public use of words only to 2006. I’m fairly certain that I alone have raised Cunt to at least the level of the God dot in the past 4 years.
I just checked Amazon for Cursing in America. It is a scholarly tome with a sticker price of $74. However, one may purchase a used copy of English as a Second Fucking Language for as little as $3.65.
I believe I can write the latter off as a business expense. Thanks, Cindy.
Motherfucker is way down there, I see.
I’m beginning to question the science behind this study.
I’m thinking some really nice combinations wouldn’t even show up on a chart like that. I guess creative swearing gets its own chart.
Where is TWAT – I love that word, it is so useful in describing the actions of others.
They also have God as a swear word when it is just plain nasty.
Oops! Lauren said about God!
Daryl, that’s an excellent point. Where does twunt fit into all of this?
We don’t hear twat all that much in public in the States — except when you’re over here, Phil.
Mostly I use twat in the car or at least yelling it from the car window. Jan doesn’t like twat which just provokes me.
Sheila knows about Mrs. Twat. Mildred.
Twat seems an ideal word for those guilty of vehicular offenses.
Okay, Phil, so yelling, “Twat!” is one of the things you will do in a car. I guess as it is not generally associated with some other, stationary setting, it is permissible.
Would that be correct?
Yeah! I knew a guy back when I worked in the house building business (many years ago) who would injure himself (as he often did) and say: JesusmothermaryblowinsonofaBitch! That stayed with me. I don’t think it’s in a graph.
Oh, that’s right. Mrs. Twat!
Cindy, I think people swear differently when being recorded. For example, when scoring the winning touchdown at the Super Bowl you might be tempted to say, “FUCK YEAH! I’m the motherfucking tits, bitches!” But instead say, “I’d like to thank GOD for this win!”
I want my own graph. I think I deserve it.
Ah, see, I assumed this was recorded via public observation, not actual known recordings. That’s a whole different football game, if you will.
Sheila, Twat can be used on the move or stationary, in or out of the car. Unlike food, which as you know must never be consumed in or purchased from the car.
Oh, you’re right Cindy.
I just made it so I could read the words at the bottom.
But my explanation makes the most sense.
I just think these guys hang around in the wrong public places.
Football games, probably.
Cindy, I’m sure Mia will draw you a nice graph if you ask her – perhaps a pie all divided up with nice colours.
Food must never be consumed in or purchased from the car? Oh, my. I fear for the future of my beloved country.
Michael, you spewed me.
Oh, no, Phil. I want a proper scientific graph devoted entirely to my creative use of language. If I may be so bold.
if Amanda were able to be at clusterflockstock maybe she could have recorded us and then made a graph.
Yes. But she won’t be there. So we are sad.
Cindy, then you should have a proper graph!
Thank you. Perhaps Dave can do it, since he is a scientist.
I think it is something worthy of recording. Perhaps warn Dave that he may need to bring some of his scientist equipment – not sure what that might be, but, I would think a white coat at the very least.
he may be a scientist. but he’s no snuggler.
Could someone get us a graph of swear words most commonly used on clusterflock.
Also, please note that motherfucker is not a swear word, it’s a meal.
Back in 2006, motherfucker just meant motherfucker. That’s all changed now.
My son, then 10, was made to run extra laps at soccer practice for singing the 2004 Jib Jab song. He was busted for the phrase, “You’re a U.N. pussy.” He was mad at me for not telling him “that was a bad word.”
What, Cece — U.N.?
Shelia: I know!!!
What about frack? Honorable mention?
I’ve used frack one or two times, but the shame of trying-to-make-sci-fi-reality usually quells the desire.
Fructose. That’s gotta be something.
I like it when Lucy says what sounds like “feckin’ hell”!
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