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.

Hec, getting to the heart of the matter.

Or rather, the groin.

Daniel ... my tagline comes from [link]

Warning: do not visit Tachyon-TV if you've had your funny-bone amputated. :)

John H in Previously:

Or, indeed, "Waiting for Kodiak", Samuel Beckett's little-known Canadian play about two Canadian fur-trappers, (Vladimir and Estrogen), who futz about for two hours on stage and are then eaten by a bear.

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.

coughNATTERcough