The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145222   Message #3359753
Posted By: GUEST,999
05-Jun-12 - 06:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Subject: RE: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Robo, it's been a while. Trust things are good in the 49th. Great to see you back.

As for this thread, I've caught up with my reading and I wish to make one cogent remark which I think may have escaped your kind attentions, gentlemen. Does the expression SSDD mean anything to y'all!?

Look, dammit, if you're going to hurl insults ya gotta give 'em some class. I'll choose one at random and go from there. For example:

'he keeps falling off his horse'

I would rewrite that so it has PC-ness to it.

'he suffers middle ear infections that occasion him to leave his equine mount in slipshod and disorderly fashion'

Yet another:

'Beam me up, Scotty'

This at once simple yet blatant [insert fencing move name of your choice] is a direct attempt to suggest that the intended recipient needs transport to attend community college.

I would rewrite it to read

'Yo, Jack, you need a lift?'

See, it's easy to take the sting out of one's remarks yet say the same thing. Then someone else will inquire as to the person's health or school classes and before ya know it, quietudinousness will reign.