Blue Streaks: Does today's society suffer from a profane strain?

The News Enterprise | 18 May 2003 | JACOB BENNETT

[wardaddy]

I understand , but by your logic...who's gonna carry on the good fight?

I'll be proud if my children are there.

[Keith in Iowa]

My Grandmother always said:

Profanity is the feeble minded's way of expressing themselves with force.

Every day I hear someone say something that proves her right.

[dsutah]

I've also noticed this in writing. We're so casual anymore in our writing to people. I read on some of the "Letters to the editor" in one of the British newspapers. I was amazed at the polite way many of them write! Now in regular conversation, some of these people may be crude. But in writing to an editor, or other, they are very formal.

They write out their whole address, and address the editor as "Sir, or Madam". I was really impressed! I told my Mom about this, and she wasn't surprised. She said that was the way most people used to write for years! She was a school teacher, and she taught many a student how to write, and write well. They used good manners in writing, and were very polite!

[Travis McGee]

I don't deny some aspects of what you say, but that is surrender to the dark forces.

One generation of people who surrender, and the candle of civilization blows out forever.

Civilization needs warriors for the light. It's not for sissies.

[Travis McGee]

41: GMTA.

[SLB]

A couple of weeks ago I went to the local KFC for chicken for my birthday. The young lady at the counter was exceptionaly attractive, until she opened her mouth to ask for my order. A great big silver spike right through the center. She talked with a lisp so bad I could hardly understand her. I am still shaking my head at that one.

[wku man]

I'm guilty, too. My 11 years in the Army didn't help, with seemingly every third word out of a GI's mouth being some form of the f-word. But that's merely a lame excuse. I will redouble my efforts to speak more civilly in the future. SLB, I am humbly corrected. Thanks for the reminder.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[harpseal]

I for one do not understand how body piercing and tatoos came to be such a fashion among many of our young. I note that self mutilation is a very common characteristic among many primitive tribes and perhaps this atavistic urge does infect a large segment of humanity.

[Fred Mertz]

The young lady at the counter was exceptionaly attractive, until she opened her mouth to ask for my order.

Which local KFC and what are her hours?

[Travis McGee]

These self-hating nihilists will make terrific gas chamber attendants.

[harpseal]

These self-hating nihilists will make terrific gas chamber attendants.While you are probably correct on that one they will have a real problem if anyone resists them. They will curl and die rather than fight a fair fight with one of their intended victims, but that was also the nature of much of the SS that maintained the camps. the ones with guts went to the front as part of the Waffen SS divisions teh ones with just a sadistic streak went to the camps.

[Travis McGee]

Which why it is utterly imperative that we resist to the death being disarmed.