In the new movie, The Wolf of Wall
Street, a new record was set. Great you say, an American movie
set a new record. Well, wait a f***ing minute. The record is for
using the“f word” approximately 525 times. That equals about 3
uses per minute. Does that make you want to see it, want to gag, or
does it bother you at all?
The f word, to me, has only two
appropriate uses; when describing a particular act, or when you hit
your hand with a hammer. Other than those situations, using the f
word excessively, to me, is a sign of verbal laziness. If you have a
word that can be used as a noun, an adjective, adverb,
active/passive/transitive/intransitive verb, interjection and
conjunction without really adding any content to the sentence (other
than to show just how cool and with it a person you are), I believe
that word is a waste of the speaker's and listener's time.
I enjoy comedy and will listen to as
many comedy specials as I can. I love giving comics I have not heard
of a chance, but as soon as they belittle my intelligence with an f
dump, off they go. I realize I am not in the demographics of the
young comedians, but this is unfortunate (and to me unexplainable)
that it is not just young comedians I have trouble linking up with. I
started listening to a special starring Louis Black, who is in his
early 60s. He began by saying he had to change venues because the
place in which he was originally scheduled to appear nixed his “f
this and f that” approach to comedy, and since apparently he can't
be funny without f**ing things, he canceled and found a place that
would let him adequately express his real character and values. Even
comics I really enjoy, like Louis C K, can be a bit off color, but
for the brilliance of his observations, I can take it. We watched, I
believe an older special of his, and I turned it off after about 15
minutes of “f” fillers, and he dropped a couple of notches on my
respect scale.
“My doctor asked me during a physical
if I could touch my toes. I told him, “The only way I could touch
my toes is if you cut them off and handed them to me.”
This is a joke told by Jim Gaffigan, a
comedian who can do a clean hour and is in my estimation a really
funny guy. I just wonder how much funnier the joke would have been,
how much he could have advanced his career, if he had told it like
this.
“F***ing doctor asked me during a
physical if I could touch my f***ing toes. I told him, “The only
way I could touch my toes is if you f***ing cut them off and handed
them to me.”
Was that funnier, or do you feel like
taking a shower?
When I began doing public speaking I
was told something by an old timer that I have not forgotten. He said
that nobody had ever critiqued him for not swearing enough. Words to
live by. I maybe completely off base but I can't help, at some level,
questioning the intelligence of someone who can't think of a more
informative word to covey his or, really unfortunately, her thoughts.
Would anyone be more impressed with:
Einstein if he has discovered The
theory of F***ing Relativity?
Patrick Henry for shouting out,
“Give me Liberty or give me f***ing death”?
JFK announcing to the world “ Ask
not what your f***ing country can do for you-- ask what you can do
for your f***ing country?”
I
know I sound old, and things have changed, and I have to get with it,
but not only does the repetitively meaningless use of the word insult
the intelligence of the receiver, but I miss having THAT WORD, the
word that could express the ultimate, a word like no other. This word
is now being texted by 13 year old girls to describe their f***ing
awesome nail polish.
Gosh
darn!
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