Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[dtb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Wait a minute - this is the same girl who recently made more money than she can count selling her second home? And was looking for aggressive tax advice to shelter her windfall?

Uh.. YEahhhh (I am going for the valley-girl, eye-rolling tone here). Why do you think I can't afford to give more to charity? Because I'm giving it all to the MAN because tax loopholes don't exist for working stiffs like me!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think in the anon's example, it would be pretty easy to determine if he was using the term to denigrate his target because they are gay or if he was using the term because people who piss him off should generally be considered cocksuckers. It's one of those, "you had to be there/know it when you see it" standards.

Maybe the anon could clear it up.

TM

But would calling a gay man a cocksucker really be an insult? A gay man could say "Why yes, I happen to suck cock, what of it?" As to gay men, on its face, its nothing more than an exclamatory acknowledgement of the obvious.

My personal favorite gay slur is fudgepacker. I have actually heard it used in earnest by a rabid anti-homosexual and have to cackle. The guy has no idea I'm laughing at him. Its the most absurd word. I can't even type it wthout snickering.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
In fact, it's "Wile E. Coyote, Genius" (according to his card).

When I am a torts professor, I shall use a clip of his antics for the final. Assault, battery, negligence, products liability, assumption of the risk -- you name it. Every doctrine dreamed up by Prosser in full color. Gotta love it.

"Acme, of course, could persuasively argue that Mr. Coyote's use of the rocket jet pack to propel him on roller skates, whcih resulted in his collision with the semi driven by the co-defendant, was not a forseeable mis-use of their product."

First and foremost, that torts test would ROCK (and I am not one, believe it or not, who enjoyed taking law school exams).

You are correct about the card, I think -- but doesn't it say "Sooooper Genius"? (Or maybe he just says that, to see how it will sound, in contemplating whether to change the wording on his business cards... one of life's unsolved mysteries, I suppose.)

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Agreed! The PCification of our culture has turned a once colorful language into a flaccid and boring means of communication, entirely lacking in spark or creativity. I'm sorry, but I refuse to use the word "waitron." And it is cute and everything that the word "history" can be seen as a contraction of "his story" but I am not going to try to come up with some other word for that so I do not accidently offend the uptight feminist cunt-bitches around me. And if one of my African-American colleagues is not working hard, I am going to call him or her a lazy shiftless nigger - I am not going to let the PC nazis tell me that this is "not correct speak" or something. Nor am I going to stop using the word "nazi" as a shorthand for totalitarians just because some kike is all sensitive about WWII.

LOL. I think.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
One thing to know about confronting rednecks: they will poke, gauge, cheat and/or do anything possible to win a fight, but they will also tire in about 30 seconds. No one is in worse shape then a redneck. Tire em out like Rocky does with Clubber Lang.

Me and Emmy Lou are offended by that remark.



(what, exactly, do they gauge in the middle of the fight?)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by dtb
First and foremost, that torts test would ROCK (and I am not one, believe it or not, who enjoyed taking law school exams).

You are correct about the card, I think -- but doesn't it say "Sooooper Genius"? (Or maybe he just says that, to see how it will sound, in contemplating whether to change the wording on his business cards... one of life's unsolved mysteries, I suppose.)

I assume that you and Not Bob have already read the transcript of the opening statement in Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme Company?

http://beebo.org/smackerels/coyote-v-acme.html

I think the Defendant's opening statement is out there somewhere too.

ETA: Found it. http://members.aol.com/dcurtin2/humour/coyote.htm

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Why is pussy degrading? It's slang, but I never thought of it as a put-down.

2.

On the other hand, using the word "pussy" to describe the coffee-spilling case is, well, ick. The woman was like 80.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
2.

On the other hand, using the word "pussy" to describe the coffee-spilling case is, well, ick. The woman was like 80.

You haven't been around much, so maybe you're not aware, but bilmore is back, and he might find this sentiment insulting.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
A pro-bono client of mine on a transaction I am no longer able to work on calls to ask me for a date of some document (he should have a copy of) and expresses how pissed off he was at the other side for dragging the closing out well past the agreed-upon date.

I say, "Yeah, you know, some of the things counsel for the other side has tried to pull have crossed the line and basically amount to malpractice, but it looks like you guys are going to get paid, finally."

He says, "Yep. But I just hate what these jew-motherfuckers did to us on this." He was, of course, on speaker.

Disgusting. I paused, not believing what I just heard and he said, "Excuse my French, you may be part Jewish for all I know." I told him it didn't matter whether I was or not, but I didn't think what he said was cool."

He quickly apologized (kinda) and hung up.

People fucking suck.

The partner I was helping on this who is working for free is jewish. Where do you get the fucking nerve? How often does this happen to people on this board? I'd like to know.

TM

Not infrequently. (Not every day, mind you, but more often than you'd think.)

Many people don't know I'm Jewish (I don't have a Jewish-sounding last name), so I guess they feel free to express their true selves. I'm more often than not embarrassed. For them.

Except the time when the taxi driver (in NYC), when searching for the perfect epithet to hurl at the pedestrian crossing the street (who had the light), came up with "JEW!" -- that kind of scared/unnerved me.

Not that this would have made it any better -- but it wasn't like the guy in the crosswalk was a Hasid or something (i.e., he wasn't noticeably Jewish -- he may or may not have been).

Like I said, that freaked me out.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by mmm3587
You seem like a petty, pathetic malfeasor who is just trying to stir things up and can't understand why no one likes him or wants to be around him.

For the record, I want to be around Thurgreed. Not because I like him, but because last time I was around him he brought two really hot friends.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You haven't been around much, so maybe you're not aware, but bilmore is back, and he might find this sentiment insulting.

Bilmore's a pussy.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Me and Emmy Lou are offended by that remark.



(what, exactly, do they gauge in the middle of the fight?)

They gauge which eye to gouge.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
2.

On the other hand, using the word "pussy" to describe the coffee-spilling case is, well, ick. The woman was like 80.

Thanks. Sounds dElish.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
My favorite is watching local sports guys throw out (Chappelle white stiff guy voice here) "Well, he's really a spectacular young man... so articulate."

I'd love to see one of these players interviewed by the same sports guy at a later date say something like "Well, how do, missa Jones... shine a shoe fo' you? How bout some soft shoe?"

Or as Chris Rock puts it, when skewering those who point out how articulate Colin Powell is, "That's an educated man! What did you think he was going to sound like? 'I's gonna drop me some BOMBS!'" (replete with Rock's shit-eating grin, that bit is priceless.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by mmm3587
It's early, but I have no idea what you're talking about with the "a tough call to make, but that she should do whatever she thought was right" quote.

It's something you wrote here recently.