We can’t depend on lots of thing we used to be able to depend on but the Slippery Slope will always be with us. Another Subject for this Foolishness could easily have been…
Cussing, Cursing and Bad Words Amok
Have you noticed that people Americans admire have started using foul language in their Music, in their Speeches, in their Movies and now in their News Comments?
It probably started with Rhett Butler when he said to Scarlett O’Hara, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”. I immediately thought, “Yea, way to go Rhett, she deserves a cuss word or two!”
As I thought that, I was still shocked that he had said that for the whole world to hear, especially the children (me) of the Good Ole USofA to hear. I thought to my little self that Rhett might just have put us all on a Slippery Slope and I thought right.
Over the years we have been slipping and sliding but recently the slope seems to have gotten steeper and more slippery because politicians have started jumping on the slope
Horrified Mother to Nasty Mouthed Son…
“You come here right now! I’m going to wash your mouth out with soap. I’ll teach you to not use nasty words like that!”
Nasty Mouthed Son to Horrified Mother…
“You can’t do that. I just heard Senator Snidley Whiplash use that word on CSPAN while making a speech on the floor of the Senate and they call him Honorable all the time”.
That’s progress.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: If Gone with the Wind had been made in 2017…
Scarlett to Rhett: “Sir, you are no gentleman”.
Rhett to Scarlett: “And you, Miss, are no lady”.
Today Rhett was sued because he did not say, “And you, Ms., are no lady”.
