"Can you imagine Mother Teresa saying, 'Hey, that really sucks, I am so pissed off,'" Johnson asks.Gonna use it with my kids.
"Son of a gun" used to be an "awful" expression. It was a reference to the locale in which a bastard child's life was conceived, the gun decks of ships at port. S.O.B. took over, but that's lost it's edge, too. I mean, here's a clear case of the democratization of words: so many S.O.B.'s out there these days...
My kids' mother let them buy the PG-version of an Eminem album. It was ridiculous, reminded of a most sublime free speech protest from 1924, a little book called "Mother Goose - Censored," and went like this:
Old Mother Goose, whenAnd so on, through all the nursery rhymes.
She wanted to ________
Would _______a fat goose
Or a very fine gander.or
Jacke and Jill went up the hill
To ______________________;
Jack fell down adn broke his ______,
And Jill came tumbling after.
So I bought the kids the uncut Eminem, and told them, "Don't you dare use these words yourself." My son took to repeating the bad words with their more, uh, formal versions, "excrement!" "Fornication!" etc. It's funny!
Now, if I can just remove "this" and "like" from their vocabulary....