God may or not may not be many things, but a recent event proved one thing very well: He has a sense of humor. Sitting outside on campus Friday morning, Corrie was helping me prepare for a Spanish test I was soon to take. As you might expect, little studying was actually being done. Instead I had launched into some sort of ill-advised persuasive speech in which I attempted to defend the use of profanity. Just to be clear, I don’t condone profanity for the sake of profanity; I simply feel that there are certain times when certain expletives are not only appropriate but indeed called for.
I was creating a hierarchy of obscenities, in which words like crap were on the bottom, about eight words after that which built in severity, to finally culminate in f---. Or as the young boy in A Christmas Story puts it, “The mother of them all. The F---.” (Later on, when his mother demanded to know where he had heard that atrocious word, the mind of young Ralphie admits he had heard his father use that word at least 20 times a day for the past 12 years, but blames it on his poor friend Flick). Anyhow, I had placed the word shit right there in the middle of my obscenity hierarchy-not showing off but certainly not falling behind.
Long story long: Just as I had completed my rather meaningless, absurdly wrong on many levels defense of cursing, with special emphasis on the merit and usability of the word shit, a bird did just that on my notebook. I sat there, my face turning red, as Corrie proceeded to laugh quite loudly. I suppose that God wasn’t impressed with my reasoning.
5 comments:
Well, Michael, need more be said? God, does indeed, have a great sense of humor.
I only wish I could have been there myself, to laugh along with Corrie! KK
I can't believe you beat me to a post on profainity. I've been planning one for months but haven't gotten around to actually writing it.
I believe the correct definition used in the film was "The Queen Mother of All Dirty Words". :)
Oh, it couldn't have been more perfect timing. It was literally after I had finished my formal defense, sitting there smiling at my psudeo-cleverness. A great lesson in humility to say the absolute least.
You, Kari, would have loved it.
And Jordan, still write that post man. I understand all the arguments against swearing and certainly respect people who don't like it and are offended, but man, sometimes I have the worst mouth. I'm pretty good at CRU though; it's kind of like a language switch. :)
Michael
i've heard this mouth of yours before michael. i always liked it, but some don't.
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