F words and others

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Skip notes:
"And interestingly, I think this worked to the book's benefit, reducing
the word from a shocking (and therefore distracting), never-seen-in-print
obscenity to the innocuous, meaningless, ubiquitous sound that it is
among GIs everywhere (I know, I was one -- the often joked-about, and
sometimes realized, fear being that one would go home on leave and say,
"Pass the fucking peas," in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner)."


A long, long time ago, when there was a NATIONAL LAMPOON and it was funny,
they took off on Pres. Ford's ideas of "alternate service" to rehabilitate
those draft dodgers in Canada.  The service would require one to go through
experiences similar to those of being in the Army, such as:
	Being able to construct a sentence of ten words, using only the
		root word "fuck" and including at least one gerund
	Polishing several square miles of linoleum
	Eating 100 pounds of instant mashed potatoes and canned peas
	Going for a ten-mile hike carrying a length of downspouting,
		a bowling ball and two live lobsters
	Watching ten reruns of MAROONED or A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG in
		a theater full of rutting pigs

This all seemed very logical to me!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)