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.
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.
Concretionist 9 months ago
Lick the chocolate sauce off your fingers?
Rhetorical_Question 9 months ago
Perception?
fuzzbucket Premium Member 9 months ago
Where would Caulfield see a typewriter? In a museum?
Bilan 9 months ago
Frazz is right. Caulfield just made the at, exclamation, pound and dollars signs dirty.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 9 months ago
The environment?
OldsVistaCruiser 9 months ago
Wouldn’t it be spelled “$#!+” in grawlixes?
goboboyd 9 months ago
Inuendo?
oakie817 9 months ago
remember it’s @ before # except after $
sandpiper 9 months ago
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.
The Wolf In Your Midst 9 months ago
Well, merde.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 9 months ago
“We have more ways to describe dirty words than we actually have dirty words.”
—George Carlin, youtu.Be/kyBH5oNQOS0Mike Baldwin creator 9 months ago
Soiled in myself laughing!
AndrewSihler 9 months ago
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?)
thedogesl Premium Member 9 months ago
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.
braindead Premium Member 9 months ago
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.
Nick Danger 9 months ago
However, it is possible to get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 9 months ago
It isn’t the same if you say “At symbol, exclamation, hashtag, dollar sign.”
tcviii Premium Member 8 months ago
Two dirty hands can wash each other and both become clean. Admittedly, there may be some dirty water.