Let Walt buy the bleeep pills! How else do you think the big pharmaceutical companies can afford all those TV commercials? And, while you’re at it let ol’ Walt buy one of them there Bose radios!!
From before —-
And people really think she is qualified to be a nurse?
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She’s not a nurse, she’s a housekeeper. And I’m glad she’s asking questions. That’s what she’s supposed to do when she isn’t sure. Silly questions, granted. But more than likely that’s because this is a comic strip. If all her actions made sense, well, it wouldn’t even be reality. I’ve seen some real people do things that make her look like the most reasonable person in the world.
Heya Joe!
Nothing wrong with a little color in our language. Doesn’t mean it’s vulgar. Sometimes it adds spice. I agree that too often it’s used simply for shock value. But sometimes there’s an appropriate call for it.
There is a great passage in a book I read not long ago. There is a sweet little old lady character, something bad happens and she says, “Sugar!” Another persons tells her not to swear. The lady argues, I didn’t swear, I said sugar. She’s told you may have said sugar, but we all know you meant —- (I’ll just go ahead and censor myself here).
My point is that there will always be someone around who is ready to complain about someone else’s use of language, no matter how nicely you try to speak.
One of Kurt Vonnegut’s characters, the Colonel in the asylum (which story was it now?), used to tell his troops that the reason he didn’t cuss wasn’t that he was a prude, but that lives depended on everybody understanding exactly what was said immediately, and the ‘spicy’ words concentrated attention on themselves and detracted from that understanding.
That said, I’ll use spicy language at times, but appreciate understanding more.
My father told me vulgarity was a sign of limited vocabulary. Course he, my mother and myself all took our undergraduate degrees in Eng. If I do swear, people notice.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
40 years ago, the side effects were the only reason I took pills.
sunnydog over 14 years ago
One Man’s poison is another’s rye ergot.
oldbooger over 14 years ago
Let Walt buy the bleeep pills! How else do you think the big pharmaceutical companies can afford all those TV commercials? And, while you’re at it let ol’ Walt buy one of them there Bose radios!!
oldbooger over 14 years ago
In the comment above I said bleeep … d-a-r-n … the webmaster inserted bleep. Gimmee a break!
oldbooger over 14 years ago
He did it again!
Plods with ...™ over 14 years ago
Hope you don’t bleeep youre socks…
axe-grinder over 14 years ago
oldbooger, that’s censorship!! Yep, that’s what it is. When you’re in someone else’s house, it happens.
davidf42 over 14 years ago
You mean I can’t say bleeep, bleeep, bleeep here? How about dang, shoot, and phooey?
stringmusicianer over 14 years ago
That must be some pretty high powered booze to cause weight loss and hallucinations.
Durak Premium Member over 14 years ago
From before —- And people really think she is qualified to be a nurse? —————————– She’s not a nurse, she’s a housekeeper. And I’m glad she’s asking questions. That’s what she’s supposed to do when she isn’t sure. Silly questions, granted. But more than likely that’s because this is a comic strip. If all her actions made sense, well, it wouldn’t even be reality. I’ve seen some real people do things that make her look like the most reasonable person in the world.
Durak Premium Member over 14 years ago
Heya Joe! Nothing wrong with a little color in our language. Doesn’t mean it’s vulgar. Sometimes it adds spice. I agree that too often it’s used simply for shock value. But sometimes there’s an appropriate call for it.
There is a great passage in a book I read not long ago. There is a sweet little old lady character, something bad happens and she says, “Sugar!” Another persons tells her not to swear. The lady argues, I didn’t swear, I said sugar. She’s told you may have said sugar, but we all know you meant —- (I’ll just go ahead and censor myself here).
My point is that there will always be someone around who is ready to complain about someone else’s use of language, no matter how nicely you try to speak.
pbarnrob over 14 years ago
One of Kurt Vonnegut’s characters, the Colonel in the asylum (which story was it now?), used to tell his troops that the reason he didn’t cuss wasn’t that he was a prude, but that lives depended on everybody understanding exactly what was said immediately, and the ‘spicy’ words concentrated attention on themselves and detracted from that understanding.
That said, I’ll use spicy language at times, but appreciate understanding more.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
My father told me vulgarity was a sign of limited vocabulary. Course he, my mother and myself all took our undergraduate degrees in Eng. If I do swear, people notice.
axe-grinder over 14 years ago
Sure, save up the shock-value of cursing. Those who know you will be more impressed with the rare occasions that you grace with a swear.
Stringmusicianer, Dypak… it’s a reunion!