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   OpenWings said, 24 days ago

   Aww, poor John, he looks sooooo disappointed! :o)

   Besides, they keep those books in the classroom! xD

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   howtheduck said, 24 days ago

   I am amused by the idea that John would look for smutty material in Elly’s school books. He must be desperate.

   I am not amused by the whiplash induced by Elly going from a night school class of Creative Writing to Contemporary English.

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   Susan001 said, 24 days ago

   Contemporary English might be a pre-requisite to Creative Writing.
   Other than that, John’s mind is in the gutter. Comes from hanging with Ted too much.

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   cdward said, 24 days ago

   It does show the datedness of these old cartoons.

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   lightenup said, 24 days ago

   If you read it without automatically assuming that John is being creepy, I took it more as a comment that modern literature is smutty, not that John wants to read smutty books.

   Good morning, everyone!

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   pearlandpeach said, 24 days ago

   i thought John delighted no smutty books in the listing.

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   myqcdogs63 said, 24 days ago

   To smut, or not to smut? That is the question.

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   ComicDetectiveDA said, 24 days ago

   What does ‘smutty’ mean?

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   Macushlalondra said, 24 days ago

   I’m not sure just what to make of this. Why should there be any smutty books? What exactly is he looking for?

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    pearlandpeach said, 24 days ago

    so many “modern”: books have all “those words” and are worse than any romatic bodice-ripper. I still think he was surprized that there was no smut.

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    BlitzMcD said, 24 days ago

    The sad reality is that what John has said isn’t that far from the truth.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 24 days ago

    There are lots of contemporary novels in bookstores and libraries which don’t have any filthy, obscene or pornographic words in them. “Smutty” sometimes refers to childish bathroom and bedroom expressions used by those over 21 years of age.

    A native speaker of English doing creative writing and using real “adult” words would be composing in “Contemporary English.”

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    JanCinVV said, 24 days ago

    Some “Women’s” fiction is little more than porn. As pearlandpeach called them: bodice-rippers - though that usually refers to period (usually Victorian) novels. I have read so-called women’s novels where I have to skip several pages at a time in order to avoid the smutty stuff - set in every period from prehistoric to modern times.

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    summerdog said, 24 days ago

    I agree that today’s fiction writers are smutty.

    Some of the most popular authors right now, write detailed soft porn love scenes.

    Example: Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.)
    Diana Gabaldon (Outlander, etc.)

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    Doctor Toon said, 24 days ago

    Jean Auels Earths Children series is incredibly well researched and well written
    It also contains a lot of very graphic sexual material about every 100 pages.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 24 days ago

    I hope there will not have too much information on smutty book.

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    mroberts88 said, 24 days ago

    In the last panel, they both look like they are looking for smut.

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    newworldmozart said, 24 days ago

    I’m sick of not getting on to comics.com. What are some of the other comic pages that I can get too. I only know of two. Thanks for any help

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    Burgundy2 said, 24 days ago

    I hear you (figuratively speaking) newworldmozart

    this site is good:

    http://www.newsok.com/entertainment/comics

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    laboheme1967 said, 23 days ago

    I took a 20th Century American Lit class in college and EVERY book the prof made us read had either explicit smut or “interpretive” smut.

    Quite an eye opener for a freshman!

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    Stuart Gathman said, 23 days ago

    You can find smut in any period. In college, I took “Western Literary Masterworks” for English, hoping to avoid the modern smut. The teacher started with selected Greek romances (think “Mrs Robinson”, Homer was too tame I guess), then selected the steamiest and grossest passages from the Bible (e.g. Judges) to represent it. I dropped the class when she selected homoerotic works to represent the Latin masters.