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It's 2PM here at work. Friday afternoon. No one bothering me. I've been considering starting a thread of this nature for quite a while, and I think I got it nailed down. What the eff am I talking about? I'm talking about cussing and how much I'd like to clean up my act. Cussing is fun sometimes, and puts just the right spin on what you are trying to say - but you have to be careful. Like I told my kids when they were growing up: Cuss Words are POWER WORDS! They mean something. They represent a powerful notion and these expletives should be used with care.
The kids would look up at me and ask me why cuss words should be used with care. After all, their mother didn't want them using cuss-words at all. I told them that it wasn't right to cuss. Polite society didn't allow for it. I told them, however, that certain circumstances did indeed call for a good cussing or two. My son looked puzzled, "But why only say them once in a while, Dad?" I explained that the power of the cuss-word would be more and more diluted with every time they said it. I said that the power of the cuss would get less and less with every utterance, until it was useless. And when it becomes useless to say - then you have to say it often... A LOT - just to get a teeny-weeny small little microscopic amount of meaning from that poor little micro-sized cuss-word, that once was really huge... and meant a lot.
The kids pondered this. Now they are 25 and 22. They rarely if ever, swear. Definitely not in mixed company. I pat myself on the back.
I swear though. Put me and IG in the same room, and you'd think the English alphabet consists of all F's. It does indeed get tiring. That's why I am trying wholeheartedly to change. Why not? Its a new year.
So this is where I come to the NON-O/T part of the post. Maybe we can think up some non-lethal cussing to fit our knifemaking vocabulary? In Mark Williams' post about the salt pots, I said, "Smelly antler dust!"
What would you say if you burned your thumb while forging? Keep it clean.
Food for thought!
The kids would look up at me and ask me why cuss words should be used with care. After all, their mother didn't want them using cuss-words at all. I told them that it wasn't right to cuss. Polite society didn't allow for it. I told them, however, that certain circumstances did indeed call for a good cussing or two. My son looked puzzled, "But why only say them once in a while, Dad?" I explained that the power of the cuss-word would be more and more diluted with every time they said it. I said that the power of the cuss would get less and less with every utterance, until it was useless. And when it becomes useless to say - then you have to say it often... A LOT - just to get a teeny-weeny small little microscopic amount of meaning from that poor little micro-sized cuss-word, that once was really huge... and meant a lot.
The kids pondered this. Now they are 25 and 22. They rarely if ever, swear. Definitely not in mixed company. I pat myself on the back.
I swear though. Put me and IG in the same room, and you'd think the English alphabet consists of all F's. It does indeed get tiring. That's why I am trying wholeheartedly to change. Why not? Its a new year.
So this is where I come to the NON-O/T part of the post. Maybe we can think up some non-lethal cussing to fit our knifemaking vocabulary? In Mark Williams' post about the salt pots, I said, "Smelly antler dust!"
What would you say if you burned your thumb while forging? Keep it clean.
Food for thought!
The sad part is I wasn't even embarrassed. I finished announcing the results and then proceeded to roll around the floor laughing and saying more bad words. Most people laughed, some folks just didn't see the humor though 
