This is perfect! Finally, somebody who enjoys the subtleties and the beauty of cussing. I married a woman from Chicago who is able to use “fuck” at every level of sentence structure. She uses it as a: noun, verb (transitive, auxiliary and action), direct object, indirect object, preposition, pronoun, adjective... and the actual ‘sentence structure’ of simple, complex and compound.
One day I actually was complementing her on her ability to use “fuck” in any clause. Her retort was... “you mean Santa fuckin’ Clause?”
She looks like Barbra Eden yet talks like a football coach on 23 game losing streak with Tourette’s. And I love her to fucking death!!!
I remember attending a "class" at a Natl youth Christian camp that more or less explained that if we used the F-word we'd be going straight to hell. I recall my dad picking me up from the airport after this camp and exclaiming, "What took your f***ing flight so long?" I didn't say a single word to him on the ride home.
This is some great shit. Seems we share three linguistic heroes (happy to hear someone refer to McWhorter in a liberal context).
Much more to say about American Humor, free expression and Bob Dylan. Whom Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat, Curb, et al) compares to Andy Kaufman. Once tapped Bob to play Buster Keaton on HBO.
Dylan is hilarious -- as a Daily Show writer, Marvel Comics editor, and young man named Harry Hew demonstrated at the World of Bob Dylan in Tulsa--the latter compared Dylan to Lenny Bruce. (I saw Bruce's phone number handwritten in one of Bob's notebooks last month, at the Dylan archives. :)
Collected the funniest of Dylan from their panel in a post.
Add more detail when I Restack--perhaps just excerpts of Bob Dylan's humor for your readers.
Long read, but there's a treasure trove of musical stories and artifacts in Tulsa. Bob Dylan Center, Woody Guthrie Center, and Leon Russell's Church Studio. And hilarious tales from people obsessed w/ these artists--esp Dylan folk.
I've sworn like a sailor ever since I could speak. But as a product of the 80's, coming out of New England, this seemed to be the norm. For example, Sarah Silverman is benign to me, and that might be because I grew up 15 minutes away from her. You should hear my aunts! If not for their longish hair and affinity for feminine smokes (think: extra long and thin) you'd think they were dudes. I say all this because my son, who is 12, is totally unaffected. He does not swear, except very judiciously. However, one time when he was around 4, I was driving him somewhere (he was in his carseat in the back) and someone almost pulled out in front of us, and I grunted and quickly swerved around them. My son, looking at me in the rearview mirror goes, "Dad...is he a stupid asshole too?"
This is perfect! Finally, somebody who enjoys the subtleties and the beauty of cussing. I married a woman from Chicago who is able to use “fuck” at every level of sentence structure. She uses it as a: noun, verb (transitive, auxiliary and action), direct object, indirect object, preposition, pronoun, adjective... and the actual ‘sentence structure’ of simple, complex and compound.
One day I actually was complementing her on her ability to use “fuck” in any clause. Her retort was... “you mean Santa fuckin’ Clause?”
She looks like Barbra Eden yet talks like a football coach on 23 game losing streak with Tourette’s. And I love her to fucking death!!!
“Daddy! Don’t say ‘fuck’!” – my daughter, age 4.
“Hey Mom, I think I need to blast some ass. And when I say ass, I mean poop.” I don't have kids but I would be really proud if one of them said that!
Yeah, it was a real blue-ribbon parenting moment.
I remember attending a "class" at a Natl youth Christian camp that more or less explained that if we used the F-word we'd be going straight to hell. I recall my dad picking me up from the airport after this camp and exclaiming, "What took your f***ing flight so long?" I didn't say a single word to him on the ride home.
This is some great shit. Seems we share three linguistic heroes (happy to hear someone refer to McWhorter in a liberal context).
Much more to say about American Humor, free expression and Bob Dylan. Whom Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat, Curb, et al) compares to Andy Kaufman. Once tapped Bob to play Buster Keaton on HBO.
Dylan is hilarious -- as a Daily Show writer, Marvel Comics editor, and young man named Harry Hew demonstrated at the World of Bob Dylan in Tulsa--the latter compared Dylan to Lenny Bruce. (I saw Bruce's phone number handwritten in one of Bob's notebooks last month, at the Dylan archives. :)
Collected the funniest of Dylan from their panel in a post.
Restack or Crosspost later -- busy as "fuck."
https://treystockard.substack.com/p/american-humor
Add more detail when I Restack--perhaps just excerpts of Bob Dylan's humor for your readers.
Long read, but there's a treasure trove of musical stories and artifacts in Tulsa. Bob Dylan Center, Woody Guthrie Center, and Leon Russell's Church Studio. And hilarious tales from people obsessed w/ these artists--esp Dylan folk.
I've sworn like a sailor ever since I could speak. But as a product of the 80's, coming out of New England, this seemed to be the norm. For example, Sarah Silverman is benign to me, and that might be because I grew up 15 minutes away from her. You should hear my aunts! If not for their longish hair and affinity for feminine smokes (think: extra long and thin) you'd think they were dudes. I say all this because my son, who is 12, is totally unaffected. He does not swear, except very judiciously. However, one time when he was around 4, I was driving him somewhere (he was in his carseat in the back) and someone almost pulled out in front of us, and I grunted and quickly swerved around them. My son, looking at me in the rearview mirror goes, "Dad...is he a stupid asshole too?"
"I mean...kinda?" I replied sheepishly.