Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 06, 2022

Oh, I’m sure this isn’t based on a true story AT ALL.

I’m so glad I NEVER GOT CAUGHT like this!

This, of course is purely a figment of the author’s imagination. This type of thing in no way ever happens in real life, especially not in the author’s house.

Also, toddlers in no way enjoy the reaction they get when they use their new word and are never thereby positively reinforced for the use of said word.

I hate to say but I don’t think Elvis is wrong. Swear, Err well either could apply to humanity.

Getting upset about something a young child says is one way to ensure the he or she will continue to say it.

Boy does this sound familiar. I did the exact same thing when I was little because I heard my dad cuss all the time and I didn’t know they were bad words!

Yeah! Aren’t we all a little @#1* sometimes? Well, I SWEAR I am as soon as Monday arrives…@#1!* @#1, gosh darn it!*

Elvis’s reaction is priceless….he wants to protect Both of them…..his little princess and Mom for whom he will always be her little Pirate Ballerina!

I worked for The British Council in Saudi Arabia. At that time, foreign families in Jeddah would send their children to either the British school (preferred by Europeans) or the American school.

I had occassion to go to a British doctor who was practicing in Jeddah. In the waiting room, I saw a mother and her daughter (about seven or eight) come out of the doctor’s office. The little girl, speaking German, asked her mother if they were finished. The mother replied, in German, that they would have to come back again. At which the little girl switched languages and said, loudly and in a perfect English accent, “Oh, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!”

The Earth callously rejected the mother’s wishes, and did not open up and swallow them.

Everybody start shouting a silly nonsense word! The bad word will stop being popular.

Never heard a swear word in the house while growing up. I didn’t know what most of the words meant and still don’t nor the derogatory ethnic names and which ethnic group. If you have to use such language it reflects on a small mind. The worse cussing out I ever had was by someone who used much bigger words, not a four letter in the whole tirade.

It me.

I have realized that I can’t my 5-year-old not to swear, but I can teach her how to swear in proper context and location. She’s only dropped the f-bomb at school twice. Mom of the year right here!!

I’ve never understood why we have whole lists of words that mean the same thing, but we will pluck one word out of that list and decide that it is a naughty word, a bad word, a dirty word and declare that it cannot be said on American over the air TV. Poop is fine and dandy, but the one that rhymes with spit isn’t? Why not? Does poop smell better than the other word?

It’s a human sign

When things go mad

When we hurt toes or fingers

We use words quite bad

Out of the lavatory

Of each worried human

Unsweet cussing comes calling

And negativity lands

Cuss curse sworn

Hard done by you

Some things look better, baby

Just passing through

And it’s some grawlixes

Just a simple word

Some obscure letters

Look like alienate words

But it’s some grawlixes

Some grawlixes

It’s just grawlixes at all

Sacrifice / Elton John

And an OH @#*1! to you, too!

Sunday Funday

I’m here less often because I can’t connect to wifi at the house anymore, not sure if it’s an outage or a problem with my equipment. Trying to conserve my 5 gigs per month of data. Foxy’s been getting in bed with me at night, then getting up at 5, I get up with her so she won’t scrape at the door and wake everybody up. Be well, beautiful Mega-Orb. PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Aw, she’s just calling Puck. You is just misheard it.

I rmember my mother and my 5 year old niece in the car the one time, when someone cut in front of us and made her slam the brakes on. “Bugger!” From the back seat, a little voice. “Bug ger.”

And there’s no proof that Elvis will accept that the woman ever says the naughty word!

Love the way Elvis is unfailingly loyal to his lady folk. ❤ (ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ) They can do no harm, and as Mommy’s Special Boy so eloquently put it, “To swear is human”. ;D

My father swore like a..well because of that, swear words have no shock value to me. Go ahead and swear, I won’t notice…or care.

This reminds me of A Christmas Story when Ralph said the f_ _ _ word, which he heard from his father a thousand times before . . . but when he said it, OH NO, it cannot be tolerated! https://youtu.be/UwvEBhTYV5c?t=102

LOVE the reaction from the Man and the Boy. I can really see the family resemblance.

Kiddies having big ears is one of the reasons I made a strong effort to curtail my stronger language when I found out I was going to be an auntie. It’s worked for the most part, and of all the words I’ve taught Niece (Nephew isn’t talking enough yet for me to know if he’s picked it up from me) the only one Brother and Sister-in-Law were annoyed about was “No.” (They were trying to avoid using that particular word around her for as long as possible, phrasing it in different ways when forbidding Niece from doing things. They forgot to tell me that when I came to visit, and it only took a few No’s from Auntie Nyx telling Niece to not do that dangerous thing for the darling kidlet to start using the word herself.)

Ah #%<>^! BCN is gonna get a call from the FCC ( Feline Communications Commission) soon…

Two panels with Elvis Toe Beans!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: Elvis, here’s an ancient scroll we just unearthed from the Very Good Pyramid.

Elvis-Anum: I’ve heard of that. It was built prior to the Great Pyramid. No one is quite sure why.

Bea: The scroll is written in an ancient language. I can make out some of the words, but not all.

Elvis-Anum: Let’s see if Violet-Ifa can help.

Sometime Later

Beatrixia: Thanks for coming, Violet. Where are the other Procurers?

Violet-Ifa: They’re out, uh shopping. That’s right, they’re out getting groceries.

Elvis: Violet, can you translate what this says?

Violet-Ifa: Yes. Here is a quote from King Almon-Joybar II, “Not bad, but I think we can do better.”

Bea: His descendant, King Catfu decided to build the Great Pyramid. What do these hieroglyphs mean?

Violet-Ifa: You mean these after the pictograph of the Royal Foreman dropping a brick on his foot? I’m not sure.

Elvis-Anum: We may never know.

My sister’s (2nd of 9) first word was the s-word. Grandma’s cookie drawer wasn’t filled yet, and she apologized for not replenishing it. That word was the Brat’s response. Mom was shocked.

Goldie investigates while Elvis loyally defends his mommy.

Little ones can have Super Hearing at the most inopportune time!, and repeat what they heard to someone’s embarassment!

Wait, wouldn’t the girl have been a tiny baby in November 2019?

Elvis purrfectly personfies the crony news media. He tries to plays down his favourite and give em cover and dismiss the blame away from em. Thou is worthy of thy profession oh crony cat journalist!

Some people think kids swearing is hilarious. I am not one of those people. As always, the cat perspective makes this. Air is oxygen got the biggest laugh out of me.

Where’s the Comics Code Authority when you need them?

And the Woman is Busted!

My loving late wife used to swear and when she did, she would say she was sorry that was her work language. She was a pet groomer for 34 years and some of her clients owners were not very nice. So when she was alone she vented her frustrations by swearing. At home it just would slip out.

I fostered six African Grays from a hording situation (200 various parrots in a 3-bedroom house). It was then I learned of the No Swearing rule around these birds, or any that can mimic. They pick up swear words really fast because those words have a lot of emotion behind them, and they are easy to say.

Note that there is another pronunciation of ‘err’, to rhyme with ‘purr’. To err is human; to purr is feline. (Also, to ‘er’ is Canadian.)

Did anyone else have a substitute swear phrase to use in front of the kids? I had a home daycare and used to utter “Cornflakes!” when something went amiss. It made the kids laugh like crazy and that made me laugh and defused the annoyance.

Elvis will not hear of anything against his ladies.

She has probably been watching TV, nothing is sacred these days!

When I worked IT for a small school district, my go-to phrase for strong language was “Curses, Fie, Drat, Maledictions, and Unkind Words!!!!” Uttered with appropriate vehemence, it works quite well…

If you go to 11/28/19 for the original, you’ll also be in the middle of the introduction to Goldie storyline. Warning, don’t go there if you have anything else to do.

The problem with curse words nowadays is their monotony. There are several people in our office in their late twenties and early thirties, and they tend to use the “F” word for everything. They use the “F” word as a descriptive word, a pejorative, or an exclamation. When I was in my twenties (granted that was the last century) you never heard language like that in an office setting.

Only heard my mother swear once, the night before a sister’s wedding, after a lengthy discussion of which car would be used to take the bride to church. (Back when limos were not available, except from the funeral home. Debate over whether my father’s car or uncle’s would be used.) Mom said “I don’t care which G@# D&*% car they take!” I was 11, never heard her swear before or after that. Can’t recall hearing Dad swear. I must have learned elsewhere, because I do.

The Woman’s “slip” is excusable. The worst people swear at their children, even ones too young to understand.

Being the baby of the family, I saw my older sibs get their mouths washed out with soap. You CAN learn by watching :D.

Many years ago I was at my Grandmothers house with my mom and made the mistake of spelling the “S” word using the spelling blocks. I was immediately “escorted” to the bathroom and had my mouth washed out with soap. Even spelling out a bad word can get you in trouble!!

Is it @#1 or @#1*!* ?

I grew up with two grandmothers who tolerated no improper language of any sort from anyone and threatened us with having our mouths washed with Fels Naptha soap. I never once heard my parents use an improper word. When I was about five, my teenage cousin said “darn” once and argued he had a right because he was 16 and grown up. Grandma straightened him out on that misconception, and no one ever was dumb enough to try again.

I touched the tip of my tongue to a bar of Fels Naptha one day just to see. Yuck. That put the fear of bad words into me, and I still despise them — and I do look down on people who use them as being immature and ignorant.

“we’re all trying to figure out who the @#*1 did this”

I tried desperately not to swear around my kids when they in the “learns as a sponge” phase of life. So lots of unswears that still sounded good… “Rat fistuala, or”wankel afterboil" and yes the kids did repeat a few of them. But after a year or so it became fun to use real terms to create the most filthy sounding epithets and interjections. There are fun ways to keep one’s mind limber. (OT all kitties have rhino virus right now. Much with sneezing and runny noses)

Morgan stark and her mom tony

My mom tried to indoctrinate me that “gosh” and “golly” were bad words and nice little girls didn’t say them. She had to cave when I pointed out to her that certain individuals who had been put before me as positive role models regularly used those words. Not to mention Beaver and Wally, Dennis the Menace, etc. However, just a few years later, she was highly amused that my toddler twin nephews were unable to properly pronounce the word “fork”, and regularly encouraged them by waving a fork in their faces and asking, “What’s this? What’s this?”

Most kids grow up with a sailor’s mouth nowadays.

“Remove top rack before pre-heating oven” is on a sheet of paper taped over the oven controls. Because we pre- heated the oven with the top rank still in more than once.

In my case, it was my elder son’s excuse: “But Daddy says that!”

We told our daughter that we didn’t care if she used swear words but that some grown-ups took offense and out of politeness to them she should only do it when she knew the audience didn’t mind.

well @#*1!

I work in a public high school and some of the students use the kind of swearing in their everyday language that you can probably imagine the saltiest of sailors using. I’ve seen kids that are upset about something and rightfully so and they express it with words of only four letters. When other teachers or administrators tell them to stop, they just get worse. On the other hand, I’ve been known to roll right up to them, sympathize with them if necessary, then I ask, not tell but ask them to clean up the language. The usual response is them saying, “Sorry Miss, my bad.” They then clean up their act. I do try to follow up and, if they have a problem I can help with, I help.

Knew a woman that could make a sailor blanch. When she had a kid she knew if she talked like that so would he. She quit cold turkey, home, work everywhere. Now that was an act of willpower

When I used to work in the restaurant business in my 20s and 30s I was told I had an acerbic sense of humor and swore like a truck driving sailor—- I was so proud! Then I moved into an office setting and had to grow out of that behavior fast thank Cat!! In my 60s now and only have the occasional lapse. I try to remember Puck’s, “oh whiskers” or “buttons”

Keeping lying to yourself, Elvis. The video proves you’re wrong. And if you keep it up Burt will yank the power to your mic again.

Goldie, your evidence is only circumstantial. The Girl was no where near the Woman on the date in question. Also the Woman’s blushing today is probably a peri-menopausal hot flash. Give her a break, she just turned 40 you know!!

Maybe we can swear not to swear?

I learned all sorts of interesting words from my uncle when I was wee. I even learned how to use them in context!

I had some very tall friends and their child was also very tall. At two she looked more like four or five. But.

They were at an outdoor art festival and dad had her up on his shoulders so way up there. And then she started hollering F-!#@. Loud. He said he never wished more that he could become an ant and scurry away. No idea where she heard it or if she thought she was saying truck.

Somebody taught the girl a curse word, and we don’t know who did it.

A roommate’s toddler was fascinated by the sounds of the f-word. A couple of weeks later, she got over it.

My grandpa taught me a song about bow legged women that my grand ma washed our mouths out over….I still remember the taste of ivory soap…

My 2 yr old daughter told the Christian daycare lady, she needed to take a shit

Meanwhile, my brother and sis-in-law did not hesitate to use big words with their little girls. For example: “You need permission to go upstairs.” There’s others too. Their first absorbed them no problem; she’s super smart, that one.

I remember when I was about 7 years old, I was saying something like “oh my gosh” and my Dad thought I said, “Oh My God” and I got a spanking. I asked my Mom why? She said that I said something “bad”. I repeated what I said and asked why was that bad? That was the last time I was ever spanked.

I love how Elvis defends his women

@#*1! happens

I am here so late because, I’m a day late reading comments. That’s how days go sometimes. Who is going to read something at the tail end? I learned these long ago. Three phrases we use in our American English, which all came from Britain. A COP is short for ‘Constable on Patrol’. A TIP (for a waitress) is short for ‘To Insure Promptness.’ And from the courtroom, a person might be on trial "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. (Figure that one out yourself)

Well, Michael Adams (author of From Elvish to Klingon if you’re interested in conlangs/invented langauges) has a book called In Praise of Profanity…

To swear is human hahahaha! When I was in middle school, our grade went to school camp for a week. If the teacher watching our group went away for a second, anyone and everyone would have a riot cussing out teachers, rivals, friends, mosquitos, the food at camp, the lot. Our merry little gang could have made the saltiest sailor go red. On the hike, we sat and ate lunch, and one kid sat on an ant nest. We all learned new words that day, let me tell you.