A New Cause (humor)

[slowp]

Yesterday, I went down in the brush to harass the rigging crew. Got caught by a guy who needed to rag on and on on how bad things were...dog died. woman left him, got into fights etc. Every other word was the F word. So, I got to thinking how inefficient this is. Shouldn't one strive for efficiency in speech as in other things? The F word is acceptable to scream out when one's saw hits say --the pavement, the gravel, a rock, gets hung up etc.
But to use it every other word is wasteful. I have started the Society for Efficient Speech. But I didn't want to go down and tell them because I heard they were in a good mood and cheery today. By the way, I forgot to warn someone who came out to swamp for me this morning and they looked alarmed when I screamed out the F word when the saw got pinched..Forgot to use Googily Moogily again.

 

[b1rdman]

**** off!

 

[clearance]

W.T.F.? As a child I was very polite and never swore. Years of construction and running a saw at one job or another changed all that. I guess it was the enviroment I was in. I try hard to be polite aroung kids and old people, used to be polite around women, but now many of them are foul mouthed as well.

Good luck with your quest, I am sure it will go over about as well as asking the guys to a gay pride parade.

 

[Stihlboy088]

My first semester at college on the first day also. I was sitting in a chair close to one of the main hallways in the school waiting for class, some guy came running down the hall and caught the strap on my bag with his foot. Him and my books along with can of chew went flying across the floor, the books didn't go too far but the chew went whizzing off like a hockey puck and smacked into the wall splitting open on impact ( a wintergreen mess all over the place ). The words which came out of my mouth directed at the tobacco product went as follows: F:censored: me in the @:censored: and call me Sally! As I got up from the chair I realized that I had just shouted this phrase in front of my new professor "my new English Professor" I was then told later in class that "The use of foul language represents a person lacking intelligence." I don't think it held true; I aced the course. However my language has cleaned up amazingly since then.

 

[Fuzly]

That particular word does seem to get over used. I'm all for cussing and swearing, but I like to hear it done with some creativity (see example in above post; well done!).

I do drop the F-bomb, but try to save it for special occasions. On the other hand, some of the guys around here would have a hard time completing a sentence without it. I don't think constant swearing is so much a "lack of inteligence" as a lack of vocabulary. There are so many wonderful adjectives (and verbs, depending on how the word is being used), and I say use them. Adjectives are our friends!

Now, really testing my memory, I heard a song once from two guys, I think Pinkert and Bowden are the names. The song was called "The Universal Adjective". It was hilarious and about this very subject. I'll see if I can locate it, I'm pretty sure I heard those two on "The Bob and Tom Show" several months ago, so they must still be performing.

Just wanted to add, The Society sounds like a worthy orginization and wish slowp good luck.

 

[slowp]

Further pondering of the subject makes me realize that Googily Moogily would be even less efficient than the one syllable F word. My own word that usually comes out is the s word and for some reason, when around others who don't work in the woods and might be offended, comes out in German. I took Spanish in high school, not German. Well, I have more trees to cut out this morning so I am sure I'll not be efficient in speech for a while. I welcome your input. I haven't heard any really original phrasing since I worked for a guy in the early 80s.

 

[Stihlboy088]

Check this one out "history of the F word":
http://www.funlol.com/funpages/historyoffword.html

Just make sure the kids are out of the room!

 

[Gologit]

Further pondering of the subject makes me realize that Googily Moogily would be even less efficient than the one syllable F word. My own word that usually comes out is the s word and for some reason, when around others who don't work in the woods and might be offended, comes out in German. I took Spanish in high school, not German. Well, I have more trees to cut out this morning so I am sure I'll not be efficient in speech for a while. I welcome your input. I haven't heard any really original phrasing since I worked for a guy in the early 80s.

You should hang out down here for awhile. Last year I heard a side rod go on for at least five minutes...and never repeat himself.
Original phrasing isn't that hard to find. We have a faller who for years alternated attendance between UCLA and various county jails. He can tailor his language to suit the audience and it's always original,always colorful, and always funny. He had a young faller breaking in who cut the corner out of a big white fir and it went sideways on him...almost got our hero. You could hear him all over the strip commenting on his partner's ancestry, his intelligence or lack thereof,his sexual proclivities,the fact that his IQ had never yet exceeded the ambient air temperature,his looks, his weight, his choice of boots, the way he bucked, and finally....that he'd be a competent timber faller shortly after root-beer was available in Hell.
I wish I could have taped the whole thing...all I can remember are the highlights.
I love originality in language. The F-bomb is overused and has become almost meaningless. Except when one of the grand-kids use it.

 

[slowp]

The only thing I could think of after the hooktender sent the tree backwards towards me was to yell, "You missed." I badly wanted to yell other things. The look on their faces (he had help even) was priceless. I now ask where the cutter is who has come the closest to nailing me, where the hooktender is and what he is doing, and where the lines are. It saves on inefficient thinking of inefficient words or phrases. Saw an excellent rigging fit yesterday. No original words but the jumping and waving around while standing on the yarder I would rate a 9. To earn a perfect score, a hard hat has to be thrown a good distance or bounced off something.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

I find that can be quite effective to substitute the word "fork" for the full strength f-bomb, as it makes those around you think for a few minutes.

We all seem to be surrounded by those who are not familiar with doing that very frequently, making it that much more entertaining.


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[logbutcher]

Fork

I find that can be quite effective to substitute the word "fork" for the full strength f-bomb, as it makes those around you think for a few minutes.
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Now Larry, "fork" in Ireland is the equivalent. As in, " I can't get that forking sheep do off me boots." Ask Joe in Castletown ( me wife's cousin, really ).

In fact, if you say "fork" very very very very fast, over and over again, you will discover the same. All together now: "fork" "fork" "fork" "fork"..........

Where the F have you been ?
Damn it all brings one back to days in country when F was an adjective, a noun, an adverb, a preposition, a verb, a breath. Strangely enough it was never used as dictionary defined (and I the Gramma Czar ).

 

[slowp]

Oooooh, and substituting sheet would do the same as fork. Inneresting....opcorn:

 

[Gologit]

Hey Slowp

Go rent the movie "Johnny Dangerously". Theres a villain in there, name of Roman Moroni, who does whole rants in heavily accented profanity. My favorite (let's see if I can get away with this ) is "Fargin Icehole!" The movie is hilarious.

 

[logbutcher]

This site is a wonder of intellectual acumen. Some brilliant thoughts to be found, in spite of the out-of-site rep for redneckdom. But that's only for you Left Coasties:jawdrop:

You mean that you know Roman Moroni ??!!??? It is a cult film.
Roman's bro is Bony . You do recall the song:
"Work your fingers to bone.
Whatya get ? Bony fingers. "

 

[slowp]

I was working on flood cleanup in the West part of the county today. The :censored: word popped out when I got some muck in the face, and I had noticed there was no swearing going on amongst anybody else there, which seemed very strange to my ears. I apologized and was told, "That's ok, you're from East County." It popped out a couple other times also. I felt bad. But no bad words came out of my mouth when the Mormon crew was in the house. They want us to come back too. I also got the feeling that I don't live amongst normal people. Oh well, I like it here.

 

[PB]

I think a more inefficient word is "like". I hear that word thousands of times in a day teaching freshman. "This is like totally like impossible, Biology is like my least like favorite like subject." Drives me nuts. I find myself counting how many times they say it is a sentence.

 

[clearance]

I think a more inefficient word is "like". I hear that word thousands of times in a day teaching freshman. "This is like totally like impossible, Biology is like my least like favorite like subject." Drives me nuts. I find myself counting how many times they say it is a sentence.

Like whatever. Like who cares, like really. like so '90s. What gets me is news people who should know how to use English well, when they say stuff like "The man was electrocuted to death" Like it drives me mental.

 

[Fuzly]

I was working on flood cleanup in the West part of the county today. The :censored: word popped out when I got some muck in the face, and I had noticed there was no swearing going on amongst anybody else there, which seemed very strange to my ears. I apologized and was told, "That's ok, you're from East County." It popped out a couple other times also. I felt bad. But no bad words came out of my mouth when the Mormon crew was in the house. They want us to come back too. I also got the feeling that I don't live amongst normal people. Oh well, I like it here.

Know what ya mean, I commute and work in the next county over. Sometimes I get "it's OK, you're from Forest County."

Well I'm glad, I wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable being around my superior intellect. Not everybody can be from a unique place!

(Or maybe it was the time I couldn't understand why these guys got OUT of their trucks during deer season, or the time I listed dynamite as my favorite bait for fishing, but that stuff about dating relatives over here is NOT true)

 

[slowp]

Yeah, we weren't quick enough. When we were leaving, this guy shouted, "You girls worked your butts off! Way to go!" We should have answered back, "It was the meth!" That would be the proper stereotype except we have all our teeth and I'm on the round side. And we didn't strip the house of the copper wiring either!

 

[Fuzly]

We've been really lucky so far. Meth has hit pretty hard to the west and north of us, but don't see much of it here.

IIRC, it was in the U.P. (Michigan) a while back, little old lady goes on vacation; meth heads get in her house and steal all the original copper plumbing plus the wiring.

Thing is, they were so cranked up they left the water and the electricity on! Miraculously, no bodies were found on scene. However, to add insult to injury, they flooded the lady's basement along with cleaning her out of copper and valuables.

Last I heard, State Police had two likely (and toothless) suspects in custody.