What the Fork?

Posted on July 31, 2002 in Crosstalk Words

Kelly Caldwell waxed poetic on the F-word. Like her, I am a defender of its use in appropriate, non-offensive sentences (offense as in football here — the action of attack) as a cacaphemism or an intensifier. (e.g. God, what a fucked day! or He really fucked me over!) . I wrote this as a comment:

I happen to think the F-word has a rightful place in our vocabulary as long as it is not overused (which holds true for any word). You can use it around me any time, Kelly, as long as you aren’t saying “Go fuck yourself, Norton!”

Sometimes when I am in chatrooms where the word is prohibited, I have my own collection of “acceptable variants” on the word. “Fark!” is one of the words. “Fork!” also works well as in “It’s none of your forking business!”

One time I referred to my some “forking” problem I had to a lady from New Mexico who was a little bit devout and pure. It shocked her. She told me that she couldn’t eat with a fork after she’d seen me use that.

Like what’s her forking problem?

For a real addict, check out Crazy Tracy. She’s the fucking queen!