{"id":135,"date":"2006-06-12T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-12T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T01:58:00","slug":"116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/116","title":{"rendered":"A virtuoso in my own <strike>mind<\/strike> car."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, those of you that know me know that I express a preference for colorful language.&nbsp; And when I say colorful, I mean shit brown, piss yellow, and Linda Blair puke green.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, my name is DmentD, and I like to curse.&nbsp; Now go fuck yourself silly.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t always use the foul vernacular; it can be a lazy way to get your point across.&nbsp; One must first know how to speak well and communicate clearly before one can effectively use four-letter words with the proper impact.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>(Side note: how did the term &#8216;four-letter word&#8217; come about as a generic and pasteurized way to describe profane language&#8230; especially when there are such tasty words like asshole, motherfucker, jackoff, snatch, cumdumpster and mooseknuckle, none of which are four letters long?&nbsp; This is, by the way, is purely rhetorical.&nbsp; I know the <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four-letter_word target=_blank><b>answer<\/b><\/a>, and just felt like working &quot;mooseknuckle&quot; into this post &#8217;cause it cracks me up.&nbsp; There, I did it twice.) <\/p>\n<p>My finest moments occur while I&#8217;m driving.&nbsp; Again, if you&#8217;ve ridden with me you know all too well that I vent at the other drivers on the road, none of whom come close to my world class, platinum perfect vehicular handling skills.&nbsp; I comment, I quip, I holler and I curse.&nbsp; Now, if you were interpreting this as road rage you&#8217;d be dead wrong.&nbsp; Road rage would be if I took action on the other drivers, which I don&#8217;t.&nbsp; This is a pure 100% letting off of steam, an acknowledgement to myself that they pissed me off, getting it off my chest and moving on.&nbsp; This incident and any anger or aggravation is forgotten almost as soon as the words leave my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It does make for some fine, extemporaneous swearing.&nbsp; It&#8217;s like being a free-form jazz musician.&nbsp; I&#8217;m Miles Davis mixed with Lenny Bruce, with just a dash of that retarded kid that lives down the block from you (you know, the one that wears the Hello Kitty bike helmet (helmet size &#8216;extra pre-pubescent&#8217;, head size &#8217;15lb H2O&#8217;) and the &quot;<b><i>Honk if you&#8217;re a honkey!<\/i><\/b>&quot; t-shirt \u2014 answers to the names Carl and &quot;get off my lawn&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>I also have many opportunities to laugh at my own ridiculousness.&nbsp; For example, I was driving down the road, all the windows down (sunroof and rear hatch windows open too) and enjoying the sunny weather, singing along with the Beatles, which I had cranked up on the ol&#8217; Victrola.&nbsp; I was in a spectacularly good mood.&nbsp; The particular street I was on has a center turn lane that allows folks making a left turn to get the hell out of everyone else&#8217;s way and not bind up traffic.&nbsp; The considerate fellow in front of me starts braking ever so slowly, forcing me to decelerate to a near stop, before he eventually gets into that center turn lane to make the left.&nbsp; Of course, I can&#8217;t let this go without comment.&nbsp; Here is what the casual pedestrian on the sidewalk would have heard:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Love, love me do <i>jumping jesus christ on a pogo stick!<\/i>&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;You know I love you <i>oh come the fuck on!<\/i>&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;ll always be true <i>that&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a motherfucking turn lane!<\/i>&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;So please, love me do <i>so motherfuckers like you can turn!<\/i>&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;Oh, love me do <i>well it&#8217;s about time, douchebag!<\/i>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had a recording of that&#8230; I&#8217;d play it at parties.<\/p>\n<p>I am a profane lexicon.&nbsp; I am a sponge and an originator.&nbsp; I am an idiot savant (ok, just an idiot).&nbsp; I am Jack&#8217;s ruptured bowel duct.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Louis Black when he says: &quot;<b><i>I realize I use the word \u2018fuck\u2019 a lot, and I\u2019d apologize, but, well, I don\u2019t give a shit.&nbsp; I\u2019ve lived in New York City for so long that \u2018fuck\u2019 isn\u2019t even a word\u2026 it\u2019s a comma.<\/i><\/b>\u201d&nbsp; Except that I don&#8217;t live in New York and&#8230; well, you get my point.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a homework assignment.&nbsp; Try reading, to yourself, down <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_profane_words target=_blank><b>this list<\/b><\/a> in a crowded room, preferably at work, without snorting out loud because you were trying not to laugh yourself into an embarrassing explanation.&nbsp; You are disqualified if you read it in the privacy of your own home or other quiet location.&nbsp; Bonus points if you can keep your shit together when you read the definition of <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirty_Sanchez_%28sex%29 target=_blank><b>dirty sanchez<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, those of you that know me know that I express a preference for colorful language.&nbsp; And when I say colorful, I mean shit brown, piss yellow, and Linda Blair puke green. Hello, my name is DmentD, and I like to curse.&nbsp; Now go fuck yourself silly. I don&#8217;t always use the foul vernacular; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}