It pains me to say that I visited, perused and made a valiant attempt to discern who this culprit, this egregious offender might be. Alas and alack, such a person fails to understand and appreciate the heights to which the English language should be raised to when posting and it is imperative that decency this group demands (isn't it common knowledge that after hours when posting to this group all gentlemen must be be adorned with a smoking jacket and it is expressly forbidden that never, never...well hardly never, should someone post while wearing that vile, putrid bit of cloth referred to as (I hesitate to write this) a T shirt, especially if it has, prominently displayed, any reference to a beverage that may, at times, contain alcohol.

The moderators should be roundly flogged for the crass and totally inappropriate language that this miscreant has spewed forth, even when used to underscore the importance and impact of what it is affirming to be true.

It is common knowledge that this person, I understand fully, that this person, who obviously lacks education and probably only graduated from high school by avoiding flunking biology for his care of the guppy tank and art by doing a stellar job of cleaning and polishing the stainless steel sink in the art room day after day. [edited - proven even more by his inability to create a sentence that makes sense]

It may be time for the moderators to be replaced with those who really, really know and understand how a forum should be run for the preservation of its most high ideals like the person that has raised this timely complaint. that this is mother's day in the US and those of tender heart and ear have been dining and have not had to experience this awful misstep.

The Oxford dictionary has a lengthy article on the use of this miserable word and it is of interest to read an example from the dictionary.

Condemn, especially by the public expression of disapproval:

intellectuals whom he damns as rigid doctrinaire idealists

This is of especial interest as it seems to show that the word can be used within scholarly discussion and is not, as it appears to have been implied above, that it is a word that by itself constitutes a sin in and by itself.

So let's raise the question, should this miscreant be banned from life on earth in perpetuity, or just from this auspicious and austere group of scholars?

Or don't you give a ________?

Condemned accurate we gentlemen ought communicate in the scholarly tongue!

A search with Google turns up 21 of the past participle (d***ed). Most of the cases are reasonable uses: e.g., references to the lost souls in Hades; or references to being condemned. A few are cussing: using the word as a mere emphatic.

There are 47 uses of the simple verb (d**n). Alas, most of these are just cussing, and worse, most are misspelled! In most of the cases, the writer meant to use the past participle, but left off the -ed. That is a . . . shame.

It seems like the language police solved the problem. I just looked at the thread and found no foul words.

Well, then, I am guilty too at previous points in time. I should be scourged.

I assume this forum is for decent ladies and gentleman? Do we have to have a separate thread to remind everyone that this is a Catholic forum....and consequently that we should act as befitting one who bears witness to the Holy Name of Christ?

I have read all the posts after mine in the cantors' thread....and have found no evidence of such a foul individual. What did I miss?

I always appear to miss the excitement. (purple)

Does the biblical curse generator still exist? It used to be on Ship of Fools, but I haven't noticed it there for some time.

Teach in Middle School for awhile, and your whole perception of what is profanity changes markedly. LOL.

You might learn a new phrase or two!

I have, even one I had never heard of or even imagined.

I, for one thank Jackson for his plea to decency of language, even as one who stands regularly condemned of the same offense. This is a forum for issues pertaining to the public exercise of the Christian faith. We hold ourselves to a better standard in our speech. "It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of it."

Besides, maybe if we can elevate the level at which ideas are here proposed, maybe we can also elevate the quality of those ideas....

A Mannerist Implosion. Who'd a thunk it?
I did, seven years ago. And said so then.
And some of the usual suspects who focus upon "crass language" and "decency" have also been the first ones to condemn me for bringing Jesus into the equation of some of our deliberations. You all know who you are.
What you don't seem to recognize is that we, each of us, is in point of fact, Christ Jesus, the Lord. Sometimes when you're hungry, homeless, naked, sick, lonely, incarcerated, you're going to hear crass language.
God forbid such should denigrate our noble ruminations.
And Gavin, you're in Texas, for cryin' out loud.
Honestly.

As said by an annoyed mother to her unruly offspring in the Winn Dixie (Florida, 1970s): "I. Have. Just. Two. Words. To. Say. To. You: Be. Have."

The internet has a solution, and it goes by the name of Joseph Decreux.



[Translation: Use the popular internet meme "Ye Old Englishman"]

Just by the bye, an old beau of mine, who used other, more colorful expressions, would not use the word d**n. He said that was a divine prerogative, not a human one, and to say the word was presumptuous.

He had very nice eyes.

Otherwise I agree with Daniel Page, and will add, "Don't make me stop this car!"

Peace out.

Darn! It was funny, drat it! Drat, drat, drat!

(referring to G's deleting the original post in his/her roles as an administrator, bending to the will of those who are not moderators, but apparently would aspire to have this amount of power)

Well, I'll be TTTD!

"varmints"... Very Yosemite Sam. I like it.

I have read all the posts after mine in the cantors' thread....and have found no evidence of such a foul individual. What did I miss?

I don't know if this happened, but perhaps an admin deleted any foul posts, and that is why they're not there anymore.