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   cleokaya said, 7 months ago

   The worst word that you can say around me is work.

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   Akenta said, 7 months ago

   cleo, be careful with the 4 letter words you’re using.

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   mplsstreetrwy said, 7 months ago

   A three panel summary of George Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on TV: “There’s no bad words, only bad thoughts.”

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   Vamptoo said, 7 months ago

   I agree with the George Carlin summary, they are just words. Who got to pick what were bads words? Seems like whoever it was had their minds in the gutter. LOL

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   prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

   Well Vamptoo, one does have to be careful with words due to context and/or recipients thereof.

   Anyone familiar with the comic strip King Kat? I can remember a Saturday (in Calgary Herald prior to it starting a Sunday-print edition) where King Kat complained about how easily a certain four-letter word was allowed to be used–the word in question was revealed (in the final panel) to be “VETS” (veterinarians).

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   bald 716 said, 7 months ago

   cleokaya says:

   The worst word that you can say around me is work.

   Just like Maynard G Krebbs from Dobie Gillis

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   Macushlalondra said, 7 months ago

   You’ll find out soon enough what they mean Michael and then you’ll know why they’re offensive.

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   Doctor Toon said, 7 months ago

   &$%@

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   cleokaya said, 7 months ago

   Yes bald, Maynard G. Krebbs and Andy Capp.

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    summerdog said, 7 months ago

    Maynard G. Krebbs

    Now there’s a name I haven’t thought of in years.

    Thanks, bald! Loved Dobie Gillis. Anyone know if it’s shown in re-runs anywhere?

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    Silverpearl said, 7 months ago

    When you get old enough to look them up in the dictionary, you wonder even more.

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    Bender_Sastre said, 7 months ago

    Most profanity centers around the contents of your knickers and what you do with said contents, so it is indeed vulgar, lewd, crass, common, etc to talk about them in anything but a medical or intimate setting, and even then there are more appropriate words that are employed. For the most part, those words are used when you DESIRE to be inapropiate and/or ill-mannered.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 7 months ago

    Oops! Hey Michael, watch your tongue or your mommy will rub the soap bar in your mouth.
    It is unfair! What’s about the adults say that bad words? hee hee heeeee… :-D

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    bald 716 said, 7 months ago

    summerdog
    i haven’t seen it anywhere as yet but we do have a new [to us] cable channel here called THIS and they seem to show some older stuff, who knows.
    also Wildmustang1262
    i remember those times, my mom used Ivory soap and it stuck to my tongue

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    Allan Claus said, 7 months ago

    Bad words for me are: RAIN, HEAT, RENT, WORK and NO FOOD

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    prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

    summerdog, does your cable packet include Nickelodeon or TVLand? These do show Dobie reruns.

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    summerdog said, 7 months ago

    prasrinivara, (try typing THAT ten times, fast)
    We do have TVLAND. I’ll keep an eye out for it. Thanks.
    And get the Ivory out for doctortoon!

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    prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

    summerdog, I don’t have any Ivory–but I do have some of Indian brands Margo (named due to being made with neem oil) and Cinthol.

    BTW, there was some incongruity in King Kat (a stray cat superficially resembling Garfield and Heathcliff) having issues about “VETS”–where would he have encountered one?

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    Bill Wa said, 7 months ago

    Who is actually drawing this strip? I have the original compilation books and this isn’t Lynn’s original style

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    marvee said, 7 months ago

    When the words are said in anger or a demeaning way, that’s what makes them offensive. When they are used casually as an adjective, verb, noun, that just reveals the users’ stupidity.

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    hildigunnur said, 7 months ago

    Bill Wa, style changes over the years, just look at the old Garfield strips and compare them to the recent ones.