Question: When is the use of "@#$%" or "@#$%ing" acceptable?
Answer: There are only 11 times throughout history where the "F" word has been considered acceptable for use.
In ASCENDING order, those exclamations were:
11. "What the @#$% do you mean, we are sinking?"
~ Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912.
10. "What the @#$% was that?"
~ Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945
9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?"
~ George Custer, 1877
8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that!"
~ Albert Einstein, 1938.
7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"
~ Picasso, 1926
6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?"
~ Pythagoras, 126 BC.
5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?"
~ Michelangelo, 1566.
4. "Where the @#$% are we?"
~ Amelia Earhart, 1937
3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, my ass!"
~ Noah, 4314 BC
2. "Aw, come on Monica. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"
~ Bill Clinton, 1998
"AND THE WINNER IS ....
1. "There is no @#$%ing way Trump will ever become President"
~ Hillary Clinton, 2016
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
August 17, 2018, 09:52 AM
smschulz
quote:
"AND THE WINNER IS ....1. "There is no @#$%ing way Trump will ever become President" ~ Hillary Clinton, 2016
I think the list is much longer with a tie in this spot of those with more than you can imagine.
August 17, 2018, 11:19 AM
cparktd
"@#$%, it's getting hot"
Hitler, when it was his turn to meet his maker.
Some people spread happiness wherever they go… some whenever they go.
August 17, 2018, 11:24 AM
12131
"Who the @#$% am I? What the @#$% am I doing here?" Sorry, Admiral.
Q
August 17, 2018, 11:37 AM
tatortodd
What do you mean they're going to test my *&^%ing blood?
~Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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August 17, 2018, 11:38 AM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
"Where the @#$% are we?"
~ Amelia Earhart, 1937
I like number one (Titanic), but this one I actually believe was uttered by Earhart to her navigator. I really couldn't help but chuckle.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
August 17, 2018, 11:51 AM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
quote:
"Where the @#$% are we?"
~ Amelia Earhart, 1937
I like number one (Titanic), but this one I actually believe was uttered by Earhart to her navigator. I really couldn't help but chuckle.
It may also be a quote from the Captain of a certain ocean going minesweeper which got my OCS section mate Prince Henry for a navigator as his first duty station.
Prince Henry earned that affectionate nickname when he flunked navigation, went to mandatory stupid study, then avoided getting the boot by one question.
When he got his orders, before graduation, he called the XO to introduce himself, ask about what his role might be. The XO told him to get his ass out there (San Francico) on the double, they were leaving for WestPac the minute he stepped aboard, and he was going to be the navigator!
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
August 17, 2018, 12:43 PM
nhtagmember
those were good...
reminds me of the old running gag on the Tonight Show where Carson would always be asking about the Fakawi Indians....
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
August 17, 2018, 02:00 PM
rduckwor
I'm trying to eradicate that word from my vocabulary. The liberals have become too fond of it. I don't want to be mistaken for one of them.
RMD
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August 17, 2018, 02:12 PM
6guns
Very funny!
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August 17, 2018, 02:22 PM
rburg
Actually, I use it quite often. Almost always when speaking of Obama. It just seems to fit well in those discussions.
Unhappy ammo seeker
August 17, 2018, 02:44 PM
flashguy
I don't use and never have used the word(s). I don't utter expletives at all. I have other ways of expressing my astonishment, puzzlement, or disappointment.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
August 17, 2018, 02:53 PM
bald1
Having been an army drill sergeant before taking a naval commission, I can attest to the colorful, creative, and meaningful impact that word can have.
Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192
August 17, 2018, 03:06 PM
FrankMoses
quote:
Originally posted by rduckwor: I'm trying to eradicate that word from my vocabulary. The liberals have become too fond of it. I don't want to be mistaken for one of them.
RMD
I’m with ya. Plus, whilst I was still working, I had to listen to virtually everyone under 30 use it in every sentence (“O my God that’s a beautiful fucking baby!! congrats!”) and so forth.
August 17, 2018, 07:01 PM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by FrankMoses:
quote:
Originally posted by rduckwor: I'm trying to eradicate that word from my vocabulary. The liberals have become too fond of it. I don't want to be mistaken for one of them.
RMD
I’m with ya. Plus, whilst I was still working, I had to listen to virtually everyone under 30 use it in every sentence (“O my God that’s a beautiful fucking baby!! congrats!”) and so forth.
I understand your plight. However, I do not willfully associate with people who are addicted to profanity--at work or not. If they have "potty mouths" my conversations with them are very short, if at all.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
August 17, 2018, 07:23 PM
erj_pilot
Well in the infamous words of Tommy DeVito, "@#$% you, yuh @#$%in' @#$%!!"
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 17, 2018, 07:31 PM
rh
When you wake up in a Soho doorway, and a policeman knows your name
“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape." —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
August 17, 2018, 08:32 PM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
quote:
Originally posted by FrankMoses:
quote:
Originally posted by rduckwor: I'm trying to eradicate that word from my vocabulary. The liberals have become too fond of it. I don't want to be mistaken for one of them.
RMD
I’m with ya. Plus, whilst I was still working, I had to listen to virtually everyone under 30 use it in every sentence (“O my God that’s a beautiful fucking baby!! congrats!”) and so forth.
I understand your plight. However, I do not willfully associate with people who are addicted to profanity--at work or not. If they have "potty mouths" my conversations with them are very short, if at all.
flashguy
You guys wouldn't make it too long out here at sea.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
I think the list is much longer with a tie in this spot of those with more than you can imagine. 
