Remember when the F-word was funny?

While there were several good suggestions for blog topics today, there was no consensus so I made up my own.

Remember when the F-word was funny?

Ok maybe if you didn't believe it was funny you at least remember when it meant something. The F-word was like the last frontier in taboo language. It was the holy grail of words we coudn't say as kids.

Now outside of professional settings you can't go 10 minutes without hearing it. It doesn't bother me that people curse, hell I curse. What bothers me that we ran the F-word into the ground so bad that now we need to come up with a new profane statement.

But let me back up to the funny part.

In the 1995 movie "Casino," the F-word is said 422 times. Goodfellas is up there too. According to Wikipedia, a documentary on the word itself has the record with 824 mentions.

Both of those are good movies and the gratuitous use of the f-word made sense in them, but it didn't have any oopmh.

The comedy (discounting those you haven't heard of) with most usages of the f-word is actually the Big Lewbowski, a personal favorite. Even Lebowski though makes the F-word just another word.

In another personal favorite movie, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," if I recall the F- word was used once — here.

"Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse."

And that one use in a movie that didn't use it often made it really work. Now the only taboos are PC words. The great thing about the F-word was that it on some level used to offend everyone. So when it got used it seemed funnier.

MASH was one of the first mainstream films to use the word. Who can forget the line in Blue Velvet "F*** you, you F****ing F***!"

What was once taboo is now something our parents say. Crazy. Used to be we all had the friend with the guts to say it in front of his folks and we'd all have a good laugh.

And even though we've diluted the F-word down to nothing you still can't say it on daytime tv or radio and if you put it in a film it will effect your rating.

I haven't even typed it yet because you never know who reads what online and I just don't need to take flak from anyone.

We need to create an organization for taking back the coolness of what used to be a pretty bad ass word. In fact the organization could be about fixing the entire language

We could call it Fostering Understanding and Care for the King's English.

Eh?

F*** it I'm going back to work. :)