Heh, the mother of a friend of mine let her read James Bond novels, but mom first went through the books with a black marker and blanked out all the naughty bits.
Of course, we did our damn best to read through the black ink. And that was about the only parts of the books I remember looking at.
Ha! I recently checked out from the library a Sue Grafton alphabet mystery series book, in which a previous reader had carefully crossed out, with a ballpoint pen, most of the uses of “fuck” s/he came across (missed a few). Not that one couldn’t tell easily what the censored word was.
Bowdlerization is a real thing.
There’s a “touron” (tourist moron) getting his kicks by harassing bears in Yellowstone. Link to Outsider article
Over the last 24 hours, this unidentified young man charges and screams at Yellowstone black bears. The first and second instance are near-identical, but the second – which just hit the internet minutes ago – shows his face and interior of his vehicle clearly. The videos have been sent to Yellowstone officials in kind, who have forwarded the videos to Yellowstone law enforcement, the park confirms to Outsider.
Would be a shame if he tries it with a grizzly instead of a black bear.
Agreed, that poor bear might get bad heartburn.
Or a primate in rural Texas.
Hopefully he has a friend who’s faster than he is at running.
The Storm Lake [Iowa] Police Department received a distressing report around midnight on Friday, June 2. The report indicated that an individual had visited a satirical website named “rentahitman.com” with the intention of procuring a hitman to carry out the murder of a child residing in Storm Lake. The webmaster of rentahitman.com informed the police department about this incident, stating that the individual seeking the hitman had divulged specific details about the child, including their name and whereabouts.
I’m not sure why the news reports don’t mention it, but this has happened many times before. The domain was set up for a planned IT business as a play on words with the word “hit” meaning a hit on a webpage, but it turned out that so many people are so stupid that the guy has an ongoing relationship with the FBI and a dozen people have been arrested. There’s an interview here with him (the guy who runs the website).
She wanted to murder a SEVEN YEAR OLD. WT actual F?
Maybe she’s a time traveler and knows the seven year old grows up to be another Hitler.
This. If I say “How y’all doing?” to a single person (as I am likely to), I’m referring not just to that person but his whole family/cohort/crew, which in itself might be a particularly Southern thing.
There might be pockets of the South where y’all is used as a strict singular, but it’s the exception, not the rule.
Then again, in eastern Kentucky you’re just as likely to hear “you’uns”, similar to the Pittsburgh “yinz” but a little more drawn out, not quite to two syllables but more like “yuhnz” with closer to a short u than a long u.
It’s quicker than asking “howyer momonym?”
'Sup?
Hey.
(nod)
Hi there, darlin’!
You would think a time traveler could manage a decent getaway plan.
But a stupid MF time traveler, maybe not.
“Jeet?”
“No, jew?”
“No, twirly tweet.”
“No snot!”