Comments on: Potty Mouth

By: Booktender

Booktender — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:42:00 +0000

As a public librarian, my clients can be most interesting in their choice of expression. Fortunately, we do have a Standard of Behavior for users that states that swearing is not permisable (sp) and guards who can get there within a few minutes to remove said potty-mouth.

I did have a young man yelling F one day who tried to tell me it was not foul language.

And that memorable day when I spotted this T-shirt on a user:

F-You you F-ing F-ck. I don't know where that's appropriate and I couldn't figure out if having it written on a tshirt would be the same as yeling it. Passive vs. Active swearing?

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:05:00 +0000

As my mother says, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye…

I would’ve done the same, Devon. They handled it promptly and got the jerk out of their hair. Cops being involved would’ve prolonged the pain, but honey, if someone tossed a sandwich at me, he’d be wearing that sandwich along with a few other things – mostly my indignation.

One thing I’ve learned since moving to a more populated area, though – you never know how close someone is to snapping. Best to give them space. I cannot tell you how tempted I was to hit the gas, though.

By: devonellington

devonellington — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:02:00 +0000

That's all good advice, until it turns physical.

If and when it does that . . .they're scraping the other guy off the pavement for at least six weeks.

That's a case where I take no prisoners.

Besides, isn't Mickey D's suspending tomatoes right now due to the salmonella outbreak?

Honestly, if I was the manager, I'd have called the cops and had him arrested.

By: Dina

Dina — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:52:00 +0000

I could be wrong, but I think he’s saying that he shared the nasty diatribe privately with his wife… got it out of his system by having the weird computer voice “say it” for him.

The voices that come out of those Mac Simpletext programs are hilarious.

By: Schraepfer Harvey

Schraepfer Harvey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:51:00 +0000

F-ing tomato entitlement. Buy some potting soil, dude.
I hope my luck with compatible clients ne’er run dry. Satisfied customers so far.
Sounds like a disturbing encounter, Lori. Reminds me of some days when I delivered pizza. Yes, let’s move on.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Oh my gawd. That's just hysterical!

What was the fallout from that, William?

By: William Womack | Words for Writers

William Womack | Words for Writers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:06:00 +0000

I once took revenge on a particularly nasty client by using high-tech. It was a dozen or so years ago, and I’d just gotten a Mac that could do text-to-speech synthesis. One afternoon, after a harrowing phone call with this client jerk, I typed a long diatribe about what a waste of skin he was, foul language and all. My wife and I then sat around, doubled over with laughter, as the computer proceeded to trash-talk the guy into next week in its reedy, robotic voice. The most comical part was how the computer tripped up over unintended dipthongs. Apparently, the guy was quite a “sheeth-edd”. Classic.