I think it is a joke, but it’s midnight here and the old brain cells are shutting down.
http://www.oopspaste.com/Oops.htm
Alas, alack, and well-a-day! Please tell me that site is not serious.
Gosh and darn it all to heck!
Well, having checked that “profane” only means being outside the temple, I think I’ll just stay outside the temple, in my profane world, where at least I have sufficent apostrophes.
What the hell did you say?
AHHHHH!!!
Overheard in the public restroom: “That’ll leave a skidmark all the way to the treatment plant!”
Looking at their testimonials, only one of them comes from outside Utah, from that most profane of countries—Canada.
It’s telling. It really is.
I’m not quite sure what it’s telling, but it’s telling.
Yep, I’m-a gonna have to say it’s for real.
Oops - well, I was being snidely careful not say Bad Words - you know Fornicating Hades, or anything like that, and that strange phrase popped into mind: I recall it as used a a certain olde fashionede type of poetry or in things like “Every Child’s Book of Folk Tales” - that type of thing. And no, I have never known what it meant, only that people seem to have said it when meaning “oh Holy darn faeces” and so on.
I humbly crave thy pardon for the unintended confusion!
one example
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Andrew_Lang/new_collected_rhymes_BALLADE_OF_THE_OPTIMIST.htm
On reflection, perhaps that (made-up) title above ought not to say “folk”, lest it be misunderstood!
Well, that was a bit of a maternal parent loving mess. Sorry - the CelynComputer threw a bit of a tantrum and lost conneciton while I was typing. And I thought I did preview.
So, then, the promised example:
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Andrew_Lang/new_collected_rhymes_BALLADE_OF_THE_OPTIMIST.htm
Utahn and Mormon checking in here. I’ve never heard of this product until I saw it posted here, but after looking at the site, especially the “uses” page, I would guess that this is a “real” product, but along the lines of a gag gift, or humorous motivational tool. Just by looking at the photos you can tell that it’s all tongue-in-cheek.
“Alas, alack, and well-a-day” reminded me instantly of Franklin Adams’ ode To a Thesaurus.
But that’s just me.
I particularly like the photos on page two (the two youths apparently ratting out the little girl) and page four (the gob-smacked little girl).
These people would really, really hate Deadwood.
Not to mention Quentin Tarantino and The Sopranos. And, like, a shitload of other things.
Oops.
BTW, anyone know how to let these folks know that poem they think is anon was actually written by (AFAIK) Helen Marshall?