Well, That Was A Little Unexpected

[Noone_Special]

@Antigen

Not likely. The small subset of people with Tourette’s Syndrome who involuntarily shout obscenities* don’t tend to use them to pepper otherwise normal sentences. You’d be more likely to hear “Excuse me, SH** do you know where I can F*** F*** SH** find the art F*** center” out of one of those people, and they’d likely be extremely embarrassed by it.

She was probably just a little old lady who really, really doesn’t like Las Vegas.

*Most of the time, Tourette’s syndrome manifests itself through facial or body tics, and involuntary clicking, sniffling, or coughing sounds. Unfortunately, because shouting obscenities is so much funnier and so much of a social no-no, it’s the “symptom” that most people connect with Tourette’s. There’s some Tourette’s sufferers in the family (facial tics), so I’m used to fighting the ignorance. Carry on.

Ignorance fought. Thank you.

[Shirley_Ujest]

You ran into Barbara Bush Sr?

[Bibliovore]

@Larry Mudd

The last time I was in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Museum of Art featured BOB GUCCIONE: A RETROSPECTIVE.

I stopped and stared at the signage for a few minutes, utterly gobsmacked and only just then truly grokking how deeply “other” Las Vegas is.

FING GD FED-UP TOWN.

Who’s Bob Guccione?

[Rigamarole]

Anyone else reminded of the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where they are opening a new restaurant and the head cook has these sorts of outbursts?

Well, he has one such fit of prolific swearing on opening night in front of all the guests. As they sit in stunned silence, Larry is reminded of a young man he met who shaved his head so that his “bald” friend (who had undergone chemo therapy) wouldn’t feel out of place at school. He proceeds to start stringing curse words together loudly as well, and soon enough he has the whole restaurant doing it.

[Kalhoun]

@Book Monster

Who’s Bob Guccione?

The deep-voiced smut mag publisher…I want to say Penthouse, but I don’t think that’s it. I also don’t believe in smut. Just a descriptor.

[bouv]

@Lute Skywatcher

Why am I picturing Samuel L. Jackson in old lady drag?

“I’m sick of the mother fing snakes in this mother fing art center!”

[Nawth_Chucka]

@Kalhoun

The deep-voiced smut mag publisher…I want to say Penthouse, but I don’t think that’s it. I also don’t believe in smut. Just a descriptor.

Yep, if you’re talking about Sr. Jr’s got Spin magazine, took it over from his pop.