Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 03, 2023

Lick the chocolate sauce off your fingers?

Perception?

Where would Caulfield see a typewriter? In a museum?

Frazz is right. Caulfield just made the at, exclamation, pound and dollars signs dirty.

The environment?

Wouldn’t it be spelled “$#!+” in grawlixes?

Inuendo?

remember it’s @ before # except after $

It isn’t unusual, even in the dozen comics I read, to find individuals whose comments will reinterpret a comic in a way that lowers the tone and intent of the original. Ain’t pretty, but some minds just see life that way.

Well, merde.

“We have more ways to describe dirty words than we actually have dirty words.”

—George Carlin, youtu.Be/kyBH5oNQOS0

Soiled in myself laughing!

A very little bit. All culturally-determined in any case. I have to take it on faith that Victorian-era prudes shunned an indelicate word like “leg” in favor of the innocent “limb”, but the fact is that in present-day Winnebago society the name of a male’s older sister is strongly taboo, the kind of word that naughty boys write on fences. (And by the way, when did “hell” become a “dirty word”? Too dreadful to think about, never mind say?)

Walt Kelly’s characters had the most inventively baroque forms of cursing: “Fazz bazz! Rowrbazzle! You dog-bone little boggle-headed clunk!” And many more.

There are, of course, exceptions. e.g., if you put a stable genius into the ground, you make the world cleaner and also feed the worms.

However, it is possible to get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

It isn’t the same if you say “At symbol, exclamation, hashtag, dollar sign.”

Two dirty hands can wash each other and both become clean. Admittedly, there may be some dirty water.