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

billytea, re. Anne:

What's this 'would have' deal? I mean, the guy basically started a chatroom with the title "95 things I hate about the Pope".

Snarkage flies faster than rumors about the premiere in Firefly:

Billytea: Is Minear doing reality television now?

Sue: Now that's reality TV I'd watch!

Dani: Think of the all the legal waivers, though.

"I understand that I may lose appendages up to and including legs/be locked in a coffin and submerged in the ocean indefinitely/be beheaded.

Resurrection is purely optional and at the discretion of the producers.

-------------------- Signature (in blood please)"

Just FTR, the above conversation began with:

Gud: I think the real competition is can a Sci-Fi show pull in bigger ratings than an inexpensive new reality show where, I dunno, four attractive people and a couple of goats are locked in a bagel shop.

Sue: I say the goats are the only ones to come out alive, but scarred.

In regards to F2F plans.

Aimee:

I was think after finale, also. Just wanted to know when that might be so I can look for weekends after. I'm definitely looking at weekends!!

Heather:

Doesn't it have to be on a weekend?

Aimee:

Well, there's no commandment, but we'll have better/more turnout if it is.

Betsy:

Is so.

Thou Shalt Not Schedule Fun Things When Betsy Has To Work.

Tragically, most Bibles place this fragment in the Apocrypha.