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That is awesome... my first encounter with the word was Norman Mailer's brutal use as a substitute for what wouldn't be printed!
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Welcome ajl
I agree, I had quite the same reaction
Though I suppose you ought to be careful how you use it
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Better than the word used on Battlestar Galactica, even.
Fug, neat!
----please, draw me a sheep----
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The word always makes me smile and think of the Fugs (Kupferberg and Sanders) and that (seemingly apocryphal) story about Ms Bankhead (I always heard it was Dorothy Parker) and Mailer at a party: "...The word has been a source of great embarrassment to me over the years because, you know, Tallulah Bankhead's press agent, many years ago, got a story in the papers which went...'Oh, hello, you're Norman Mailer,' said Tallulah Bankhead allegedly, 'You're the young man that doesn't know how to spell...' You know, the four-letter word was indicated with all sorts of asterisks... I thought she [Bankhead] should have hired a publicity man who had a better sense of fair play." (1968 Panel Discussion, CBLT-TV, Toronto, moderated by Robert Fulford) From "Conversations with Norman Mailer", 1988. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. ( link)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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The Fugs named themselves after Mailer's euphemism.
After the sixties, Sanders wrote the first book on
Charles Manson and continued as an unreconstructed
Beat poet; Tuli Kupferberg assembled "As They Were",
a post-modern album of baby pictures of prominent
people; and, of the most interest to this list, the
drummer and lexicographer Ken Weaver compiled
"Texas Crude", an earthy collection of Texas slang,
profusely illustrated by R. Crumb.
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