The F, S, N and Q Words

I've sanitized this blog a bit and no longer speak completely in the vile voice I learned so long ago as a mill worker at Amerbelle cloth mill in Rockville, Connecticut. However, leaving this blog address on my school Email does have its limitations. I apologize in advance.

Last night our students had their Winter Ball dance. I did the photography as I have many times in the past. On a photographic note, it worked out great. I finally got my wonderful Nikon flash to work as it should and the ttl/bl function was a dream. It all looks great and I guess I really have entered the digital world.

The music the DJ was playing though blew me away, even this ex-mill worker, for the lyrics were not really lyrics at all but rather a conversation I remember having with a fellow mill worker (or scholar Hugup Mersherahn but that's another story). In my teen years I would listen to my cohorts tell a story and ever 3rd or 4th word would begin with F,S,N or Q. The expletives, so improper as mentioned for my sanitized blog, made me chuckle and then infused their way into my day-to-day vocabulary.

Last night I listened to the incessant ramblings, with strong bass beats, by those who have made their songs, their lives, on these very words. F, S,N and Q. F,S, N and Q. They are rich! My mill working friends came up with this lingo, these linked non-webster words (perhaps Q is not there) and they never made a dime from them. Now, these young punks with their record contracts (and the strong bass beat as mentioned) are making millions. The kids think they are kind of rebelling against the establishement when it is the establishment who is ripping them off getting them to think this (read this sentence twice and then it will make sense).

We old folk were kind of getting a bit angry with this too thinking that a school function should be as sanitized as my blog. Not that the kids don't watch shows replete with the F, S, N and Q words (sometimes the R word too for that matter), or listen to their parents fighting throwing these words around like world class ping-pong players, for they hear them all the time. You hear, you see, you use. Isn't this what conditioning is all about?

Final note of the day. Brother Steve appeared on Dr. Phil last week. I am not sure (well actually I am) that I agree with going on national t.v. to discuss maritial issues but at least he got his 15 minutes. The transcripts are there for all to see and I will provide the link: www.drphil.com Go to Tuesday from last week to view. At this point I think I will use the F, S, N and Q words (never the R word as I truly object to this one). Damn...