Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 07, 2018

Private F%€k drop and give me 20!

Sorry, doesn’t work as a comma.

Use ‘Fook’

To space your words out.

I’m not sure I want to know what you use for a semicolon.

Funny. Very funny.

“Colonel”?

For someone who is not US-American this strip is almost impossible to understand – and yet so sad…

That was the hardest part of getting back to civilian life. When I said F to my aunt, I knew I had to stop it.

Anyone else notice the person who colorized the strip demoted the Colonel by coloring his oak-leaves gold and making him a Major?

Ernie Pyle said, " “If I ever hear the word again I’m going to throw up.”

Everyone knows that “effing” is an adjective and the simple F is either a noun or an interjection.

People call me “sir” all the time in the civilian world I live in. It’s gotten to where I turn if I hear the word, because that’s my name!

One thing wrong. The various state NG were well trained going into GWI. All of them, even the officers.

It’s not because I don’t know the words in a foreign language – it’s one of the first thing you learn – but I find that I cuss more in English than any other language.

I speak almost exclusively in Spanish – and have for the past 5 years – but don’t swear a fraction as much…However, I admit I’ve picked up a few choice idiomatic expressions from my wife – especially the ones that are sometimes directed at me.

I ejected a Japanese player from a football ( soccer ) match for cussing me out in Japanese. Afterwards, the coach remarked to me: " Wow, you really got him. He’s been swearing at referees in Japanese, all season. I didn’t know you spoke Japanese. "

I laughed and said: " I don’t. His body language, tone of voice, and inflection told me that he wasn’t giving my mother any blessings. "

The coach never told the player and the next time I refereed one of his matches, the player was very respectful, keeping his opinions of my officiating, out of my hearing range.

Use it in place of “darn,” “rats” or “Heavens to Betsy!”

Sorry but I don’t get the connectionon between F and comma . Until Fword i can imagine , but comma?