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

>From: "Fish Eye no Miko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Date: 11/18/2003 10:24 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>>From: "Fish Eye no Miko" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>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 . . .
>
>I can like swearing, too, in certain contexts (see comments about that
>below).  Swearing in and of itself doesn't make a quote great, imo.
>

  A me thing then.  What can I say?  I like them potty mouths!

>> >> 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
>directed
>> >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
>. . .
>
>"Technically"?
>Besides, imo, a great quote" doesn't need context to make it great.  If you
>need context for a quote not to confuse or offend people, or whatever, it
>can't be that great.
>
>>  . . . 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)
>
>And this is relevant to THIS quote how, exactly?  I'm not saying it's never
>happened.  I've also seen guys called "bitch", too, that doesn't mean I
>don't get offended when a woman gets called that without a VERY good reason
>(a concept I realize is very subjective.  I'll give you a hint--"That bitch
>wouldn't sleep with me!" isn't a "good reason").
>

   Actually it's quite relevant:

Main Entry: 1whore  
Pronunciation: 'hOr, 'hor, 'hur
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English hore, from Old English hOre; akin to Old Norse hOra
whore, hOrr adulterer, Latin carus dear -- more at CHARITY
Date: before 12th century
1 : a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : PROSTITUTE; also : a
promiscuous or immoral woman
2 : a male who engages in sexual acts for money
3 : a venal or unscrupulous person 

(1 and 2, obviously) 

   In TLY, Burt Reynolds ends up in prison when he upsets one of his female
customers.  I don't think I should have to mention how it's relevant to
Midnight Cowboy . . .

   As for the woman in Errant Story:

  http://www.errantstory.com/d/20030430.html


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