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July 7, 2004 It takes just a small effort to hear the voice of the Vice President of the United States telling the leader of the Senate Minority to EFF off or go EFF himself or whatever the EFF he said. Ever since all of the (explicative deleted’s) in the Nixon White House transcripts we have known that foul language is a prerogative of power. More and more, since the days when we first realized that those we have chosen to lead us use this type of language it has crept into the every day culture. We hear it everywhere and have been hearing it subliminally for a generation. Remember Bowie, David not Jim, when he said “I’m a motherpopper coming for you!” He may have said the one thing but we heard something different, which begs the question what are they saying in “Louie, Louie”? Funny thing is most anyone under the age of forty five won’t have heard either of these songs and won’t know what I am talking about. But they will know all about using the EFF word in everyday language. Do you suppose the Vice President thought that we wouldn’t know what EFF off meant, or because he felt good about his EFFing use of the explicative that the rest of us would give him a pass on it? Well Mr. Chaney that’s just EFFing wrong, you sir when you told the elected senator from the great state of Vermont to EFF off you told all of the EFFing great people from that EFFing great place to EFF off. That was just EFFing wrong no matter how EFFing good it made you feel after having EFFing said it. Am I making myself EFFing clear? It’s not the use of the word that was wrong though; it was the blatant disregard for the EFFing dignity of the EFFing place he was in; even though he was only there that day to take an EFFing picture. Now that I am an EFFing candidate, albeit an EFFing write in one, let me be perfectly EFFing clear it is no EFFing thing wrong with the vice president using street language to get his point aEFFingcross, after all he is the EFFing Vice President, and he has shown that he can do pretty much what he EFFing will. After all the vice presidents potty mouth falls in line with my own platform of selling my vote and my office to the highest EFFing bidder. The only difference between the toilet tongued vice president and myself is he has been at the political prostitution game far longer than I have. We Americans like to think of ourselves as having built an ideal that the rest of the world can look up to and admire. For a long time, when the ideal was baseball, apple pie and mom that was true and the world responded with enthusiasm towards us and all that we had to offer.. We flooded the airwaves with fireside chats and “Leave it to Beaver”, “Father Knows Best” and Apollo space programs. That was before the EFFing world changed and we changed right along with it. Before Viet Nam and before presidents and vice presidents disgraced themselves; with their language usage being the least of their problems; before we murdered the best among us leaving ourselves with the second rate at the head of the column. I will admit, long before the investigative reporters can dig it out that I can swear like a sailor on a binge in a foreign port. That is because I was a sailor and the older sailors taught me how both to binge and use powerful EFFing explicatives. As a matter of fact all of the words that most people consider offensive, vulgar and, foul I use in the course of everyday speech. I don’t do it to shock or annoy although one result is that I am annoyed by the language. I am annoyed because invariably someone will try to correct my usage of this language. They will tell me it is vulgar and offensive. To which correction I am forced to reply that the true vulgarity is that AIDS has left almost fifteen million children under the age of five, orphans, that there are people in this nation who have no home and who go hungry on a regular basis, living with out any form of income other than what they beg off them still fortunate enough to have a job and income. The true vulgarity is that there are people who led (lead) multibillion dollar, multinational corporations are known cheats and frauds who have lost the pension savings of millions of investors and workers and they are allowed to keep even a dime of that ill gotten gain and are not paupers when they, if they even, go to prison. These are just a few of the ingredients in the vulgarity pie we serve ourselves up daily. EFFing language does not even make it into the crust as one ingredient, no the EFFing language is just an after taste of the true vulgarity our generation has served up and as a candidate I promise I will continue to serve in the finest tradition of the sitting vice president, an EFFing great guy. ------------ About the author Mark C. Durfee: 49...stopped doing what I was doing before to become an unpublished, unemployed writer. Any interested agent or publisher can contact me at the addy listed. I have four manuscripts complete and two more underway. I am willing to listen to proposals. Email: mcd5255@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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