TT - Yeah it's like dirty jokes - I find them totally unfunny. It takes creativity to come up with funny clean stuff. This parody spells it out plainly. There are too many "frickin' idiots out there forking up the lingo. The fargin bastages sons of bench and bannisters - mortar forkin' cork soakers all of 'em. --- Oh -Can I say five out here?

George Carlin works wonders with it, but there's very few others who can! Useful advice right out of the shell!! Fivers..

As we used to say when I was a kid, "Freakin' awesome!" Too bad the people who are the worse offenders using the "F" word would probably "get it" the least.

You are definitely someone not to be f*cked with! lol Good job! ;D

Guy: Nice riffing! ... Um, that four-letter word starting with "F" that you asked about? -- You know how parents sometimes spell out their words that they think the tots won't understand? Do the opposite, and "number" it out hehehe :)

Mark Scotti: The peeps who overuse it, in my experience (DK yours), are definitely *not* in Carlin's league lol! ('Sides, isn't his either live or recorded, where you have to buy it, whereas this written medium is free to anyone with access to Mommy's puter?). Thanks for v,c, and insight!

metaphorsbwithu: Isn't it always that way? (sigh) .. thanks for v/c! (....and will consider "freakin'" as a shortening of "freakingly", i. e. "freakishly" awesonme! Clever workaround, eh, what?)

Old Man Ribber: LOL! .. thanks for v/c! :D

I'm sure I speak for all English teachers when I say... thank you. :) Talk about noise pollution.

So thats who sung that song I've wanted to do a parody on this but I'm not sure who it was. Nice message to send stop swearing in films and get back to some exciting dialogue.

F**ckin' right!

I can do better than that - I can say it in parody and have - take a peak:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/villagepeople15.shtml

=;-)

OK - I'll do that 4 letter word in EBCDIC

1100 0110 0000 0011 1100 0011 1011 0010

Genteel Fiddlegirl: Probably other people besides English teachers, but you're very welcome. It's something I've wanted to say for a long time.

Gari J: I might be misunderstanding you, but no, "Traditional" is not a band. It refers to folk music handed down through generations, where no one is sure who the original author was. If I've misunderstood you, please forgive me -- and enjoy writing your own Smokin' Smokey parody.

Agree 100% on lack of wit or imagination in movie dialogue (have you ever seen "Casablanca"? Talk about witty dialogue!), and thanks for v/c.

John Barry: From anyone else, maybe not so clever. From the lad with largest lexicative lore (phrase from your tribute 3+ years ago), deliciously ironic! ... thanks, John.

Guy: Please put your EBCDIC back in your pants, Sir!

TT - Sorry, I was just EBCDICin' around.

he he

Guy: LOL!

Ann Hammond: thanks thanks!

Effin', indubitably TTrue! More great stuff from one so 'On Top' of his game!

TJC: You are too, too kind! (but don't stop!) lol.. thanks for v/c!

ANYBODY: Just came across a worse example. Won't dignify the film by naming it, but according to IMDb, the word and its variants are said 298 times in 105 minutes. That's once every 21 seconds.

btw, who sits around counting these, anyway?

I produced my own comment on this particular word to the tune of "Flipper". When I was in high school we had a teacher who would use the expression "as far as" the way so many use "you know", just a meaningless space filler. We would keep notebooks to mark down each time he said "as far as". After class we would compare notes to see if our counts were the same. I recall him exceeding 100 in the space of an hour.

Like, Patrick: Like, I so, like, know what you mean, like. I'm so, like, right there with you. I'm like, you know, like, thanks for the, like, v/c, you know?