I remember the first time I saw...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

my very first "fuck you" sign...

I was maybe 20-21 years old, and I'd never seen one, ever!

I told my fiance this, and he was aghast. So we drove over to his University, and went for a walk...

And there it was: "Fuck you" on a bench.

My turn to be aghast...

Then, of course, I started seeing them all over the place!

Do you remember your first time?

:P

[madinmaryland]

1. Pffth! You just wanted an excuse to drop the F-bomb!!

:rofl:

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear madinmaryland!

I did NOT!

My husband and I were talking about this incident at lunch, and he suggested that it would make a perfect Lounge thread, so there!

:P

:rofl:

:hi:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

3. I think I heard it and said it

before I saw it Peggy. Child of hippies and all...:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear theNotoriousP.I.G.!

Ah, could very well be!

My parents were about as far from hippies as you could get! White-collar Republicans!

But not any more...they switched party loyalties a couple of years ago...

I was the very picture of innocence, believe it or not!O8)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

5. I used to believe it Peggy

until I saw with my own eyes your dirty little secret OREO ADDICTION. A fuck you sign? Pffft. Nothing compared to that! :evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. LOL!

Ah...my dirty little secret is a secret no more!

How will I ever live it down?

:rofl:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. Ship me some of those oreos

and then it's between you and me }(

[mix]

8. that is an excellent story/memory...thanks

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear mix!

I'm glad you think so, sweetie!

Thank you!

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. The first time I'd ever seen the F-bomb

was in a California Peggy post.:scared: :hide: :cry:

;) :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear Fire Walk With Me!

O really???

Yeah, right...

Sure you did, sweetie!

:rofl: ;)

[Xipe Totec]

10. The first time I saw this sign was 1968

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear Xipe Totec!

Oh sweetie!

What is that?

:scared:

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

16. It says....

Coma Caca - Eat Shit!

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Omigod!

I kind of thought there was shit in there...

Didn't recognize the "Coma" part!

Thank you for clarifying, sweetie!:P


:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

14. I didn't mark the occasion

But your tale reminds me of an embarrassing car trip with my Camp Fire Girls group. Our leader, Mrs. Brown, a very buttoned-up type (nice lady though), was driving us all somewhere when we passed an exit sign for the unfortunately named Hard Road. Needless to say some wag had spraypainted "On" in the gap. Our leader's daughter immediately said, "Mom, what does 'hard on' mean?" She stammered, "Something bad." So of course her daughter and a couple of the other more boisterous girls started saying it over and over and over...

Poor, longsuffering Mrs. Brown.
:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear MorningGlow!

Oh, that's hilarious!

She asked for it, IMHO...she could have said "I'll tell you later!"

That's what I said to my younger daughter in the theater while we watched Tommy Lee Jones make love to Sissy Spasek in

"Coal Miner's Daughter"! She'd asked me "What's he doing to her, Mom?" Everyone around us laughed while I cringed!

And I did start to tell her later...when she said, "I figured it out, Mom." She was probably 8 or 9...

Life's most interesting moments!

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

17. YIKES!

:rofl:

I've got a few more years before MG Jr. starts asking embarrassing questions. I can hardly wait. :eyes:

In related news, a local radio station is trying to get a campaign off the ground to force our local supermarket chains to have a "tabloid-free" aisle "so you won't have to answer embarrassing questions your children might ask." Oh hell, I say if the kid is old enough to read the headlines, s/he's old enough to deserve an answer. Maybe not when you're trying to find your coupons, but it's the parent's responsibility to say "Later, dear."
:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Parenting: the ultimate adventure!

I'm with you on the tabloid-free aisle...fuck that!

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

25. LOL I wish I could find the Web page they were pushing to sign up

I would go there and leave your comment: "Fuck that!" :applause:

[mcctatas]

20. I checked back in just in time to see Peggy type fuck!

maybe it will be a good day after all :P

I grew up in a family where creative use of profanity is damn near an art form but I do remember (or at least heard stories about) the first time I dropped the "f"bomb in public, my grandmother took me to the little library in Hartford WI and I walked in and said "look at all the fucking books", I was four, she was mortified :P

*example of the creative swearing master in my family, my father:

I am trying to resist a pointless descent into stereotyping - but are all Republicans, pseudo-populist; pseudo-christian; pseudo-moral, xenophobic, anti-intellectual; racist, anti-semitic shit bags!? The right in the country is indistinguishable from the Nazi SS only by the absence of jodhpurs and jackboots! I am really beginning to cultivate a loathing and hatred of these fuckers and I regret it as it is dehumanizing me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. My dear mcctatas!

Ah, sweetie! Any day you can say "fuck" is a good day!

And I love your stories! Both yours and your father's...

Four years old? Wow. Just ....wow!

And your dad sure did have it down to an art form, didn't he?

Good for you both!

And thanks for sharing, sweetie!

:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. The first time I saw the word "shit", I was in 3rd grade...

I saw it written on the bathroom wall; and like an idiot, I asked the teacher what it meant. No recess.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear GoddessofGuinness!

Hey, it's not as though you'd written it!

That teacher was out of line! How are we expected to learn stuff if we can't ask???

Thanks for sharing, sweetie! Or should I say...Granny?

:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. The funny thing is, when I was in 4th grade, our teacher told us

we could always ask her about any words that we didn't know...all we had to do was write them on a piece of paper and hand them to her, like we were passing notes. She swore that we needn't feel embarrassed about it.

I asked her about a great many words like "shit", because they weren't in our dictionary, which I often used.

She didn't take away my recess, but she never responded. :(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. I'm so sorry...

What a meanie...

:hug:

[MorningGlow]

24. Minga for me

Kids at school said it, so in a fit of pique, when my mom was annoying me, I said "Minga, mom!" with a roll of my eyes.

OMG I thought she was going to murder me on the spot.
:scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Guess what?

I don't know that one, either...

I'm afraid to ask...or maybe too embarrassed...:blush:

[MorningGlow]

27. Italian slang--the meaning gets debated a lot

but general consensus usually settles on "fuck", used like "Jeee-zus!" or sometimes "Oh fuck!"

It's pronounced "meengya". Just don't say it in front of old Italian people... :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Trust me!

I won't...not too difficult, since I don't know any! :scared:

Thanks, sweetie!

:hug:

My education continues!

[MorningGlow]

29. Hee hee you know one!

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. Ah, yes, so I do!

I meant....out here...you know, the so-called "real" world!

:hug: