I heard VHS took off because Sony refused to put any porn out on Betamax. Which, frankly, is a more compelling reason to go VHS.
Hec, getting to the heart of the matter.
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I haven't been this foulmouthed since sixth grade, and back then I had philosophical and political objections to using the word "bitch".
RL, overcoming her sixth-grade scruples in Bitches.
I haven't been this foulmouthed since sixth grade, and back then I had philosophical and political objections to using the word "bitch".
I had religious objections to swearing until at least my early twenties. Still tend to self-censor most swearing out of my vocabulary. The exceptions are what I call the three Bs: bloody, bastard and bugger. Because really, they're just so much fun to say.
I'm kind of desultorily reading Natter:
Min:
Alibelle, marry me? You have a perfect number, our IDs combined make another perfect number, come make sweet digits with me.
Alibelle:
You had me at your calculations.
Separately,
billytea:
Oh, I just realised something else about my ID number: I keep winding up living somewhere with a street number divisible by 11. I've done 22 twice, 110, 55 and 11 itself, being the first and only place we've owned.
And now 33.
lori:
billytea goes up to eleven.
In Previously:
billytea:
If they'd had the internet back in the Middle Ages, d'you think Aquinas would've engaged in flame wars?
Anne. W:
Well, that would take the idea of auto de fe to a more civilized level, wouldn't it?
I think that Luther would have flamed like a things that flameth mightily.
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Actually, billytea, I'm with you on that one. My objections weren't so much religious as not making people uncomfortable around me--and besides, if you cheapen the words by using them every day, you don't get a chance to really shock people when you use them to make a point! When I curse, people know I'm really serious.
That doesn't mean I don't watch the Sopranos, et al. I just dislike cursing when a writer takes the easy way out with the shock value of the words themselves rather than writing them into a well-thought-out speech.