Glass Maze Washes Its Mouth Out With Soap
My mom was (gently) admonishing me the other day for all the filthy language I use on this blog. I am, needless to say, mortified. I had no idea she was even reading this thing. So I will definitely be treading more carefully from now on.
However — it’ll be difficult to ditch the epithets entirely, given all of the impotent bitching and excoriating that needs to be happen here. So I’ve decided to go with a simple substitution scheme instead. Here are some early candidates:
| Shit: | Stool Poopy |
| Hell: | Naughtytown |
| God: | Jehovah |
| Damn: | Darn |
| Fuck: | When a man and a woman love each other very much |
I think these alternatives strike just the right balance between stridency and prurience. As a test run, I’ve run them through a typical 50s-era sitcom plot — a hapless father trying to put together his son’s new bicycle on Christmas Eve:
| Ward: | Jehovah darn it! What the naughtytown is wrong with this piece of stool poopy? |
| June: | Whatever is the matter, Ward? |
| Ward: | I have no idea how to put this when a man and a woman love each other very muching thing together. |
| June: | Did you read the instructions? |
| Ward: | Yes I read the when a man and a woman love each other very muching instructions. They’re when a man a woman love each other very muching worthless. |
| June: | Ward, dear. There’s no need to yell. |
| Ward: | I feel like a jehovah darn stoolpoopyhead here. What’s the kid going to think when I give him this thing tomorrow? |
| June: | He’s going to very grateful. |
| Ward: | Bullstoolpoopy. He’s going to think his old man’s a when a man and a woman love each other very muching loser. I need a drink. |
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me, but I think this is awesome. It’s going to usher in a whole new era of swearing. And I will be its king. Bow down before me, potty-mouthes!
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