The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11381   Message #813596
Posted By: GUEST,Fred Miller
29-Oct-02 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
Subject: RE: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
Yes "graphic" and also "hard-core" are annoying terms for explicit, or merely present, or whatever. Hard-core sex is puzzling, because it tends to mean simply sex, and graphic violence turns out to be violence. I would prefer designating terms for that which is merely suggested, rather than use a tautology to emphasise or hype-up an ingredient. But then I would also prefer a whiter tint of pale, and that you and I travel to the beats of different drums.

   I'll explain this one more time about the CCR lyric--there's a babboon on the right. Don't go around tonight, it's bound to take your life. Why would anyone warn you against a bathroom or a "bad moon" on the "rise?" It makes no sense. Watch out for that baboon, though.

   My favorite misprint is in the Riverside Shakespear, when the ghost says that his brother's gifts were "poo" compared to his own.