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Re: [OT][STRIPS] Great quotes . . .



>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Antonio E. Gonzalez)
>Date: 11/18/2003 7:49 AM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>From: "Fish Eye no Miko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>Date: 11/17/2003 10:23 PM Pacific Standard Time
>>Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>From: "Fish Eye no Miko" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>< <
>>> >>   Two great quotes from anime/manga-style strips at perspective
>>> >> storyline climaxes!
>>> >>   "You goddamn @#$%^&!, thieving, backstabbing, jizz guzzling
>>> >> whore!!"
>>> >>   http://www.errantstory.com/d/20031117.html
>>> >
>>> >Why is this like great, exactly?
>>>
>>>    It *does* help to follow the story,
>>
>>Well, maybe you should have mentioned that.
>>
>>> but: Mostly the Carlinesque overuse of insults in one sentence,
>>
>>So, bascally... lots of swearing makes a quote "great"?
>>
>
>    Must be a guy thing . . .
>
>>> to the point of one word getting censored (though *far* worse
>>> has been used in the comic before); the term "jizz guzzling,"
>>> which I'd never heard before, and seemed oddly . . . innovative . . .
>>
>>Not really.  I've heard similar.  Frankly, it would have been more
>>"innovative" if, for example, the term "jizz guzzling whore" were durected
>>at a man.  Towards a female character, it just sounds like a stream of
>>misogynist shit.
>>
>>Catherine Johnson.  Wow, calling a woman you're mad at a "whore"!  How
>>great!
>>
>
>   Well, if you look in the archives, she technically . . . well . . . is . .
>.
>

   . . . and BTW, IIRC, Jon Voight was called a whore by one of his female
customers in Midnight Cowboy, so . . .
  (either that, or Burt Reynolds in The Longest Yard, but some 70s film; it's
been a while)


                       - Vaughner

- "Well, thanks to the internet, I'm bored with sex."
       - Philip J. Fry, "Futurama"



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