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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 11:51am | IP Logged | 1
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QUOTE:
| I don't mind if random symbols are used but think some get a little cutesy with @$$, or $#!+. |
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Ha! Steven, I have used those when relating what someone else has said in writing. I never thought of them as "cutesy" before reading your post, but guess you're right!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 2
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5H17!!!
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Ronald Joseph
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | 3
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This may be a really stupid question, but...when Wolverine said flamin' was he really supposed to be saying the F-word?
I only ask because if you read it as the F-word in the same sentences, it sounds a little silly. I don't think I've ever hear anyone in real life say something like "What the f'n?!"
But Kitty once used it in an issue of Excalibur and Captain Britain said something like "young lady, your language!"
Like I said, potentially stupid question which I probably just answered myself.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | 4
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The coining of grawlix is credited to Mort Walker. •• Mort conceived most of those terms for a BOOK OF LISTS in the Seventies. I had the feeling, then and now, that he made them up on the spot, kind of as a joke.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | 5
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This may be a really stupid question, but...when Wolverine said flamin' was he really supposed to be saying the F-word? •• Well, he's not Australian! Roger Stern summed it up best. He said that Wolverine was the kind of guy who would punctuate with the F-word, while Ben Grimm was the kind of guy who would actually say "blankety-blank".
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Ronald Joseph
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | 6
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Ben Grimm was the kind of guy who would actually say "blankety-blank".
Yes, that's pretty much perfct.
And for some reason, upon reading blankety-blank, I was reminded of this...
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Adam Schulman
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That was a classic issue of WHAT THE--?! It's so true. If you try to make fun of the way Ben talks, it doesn't work -- it just ends up sounding like Ben.
The great irony(?) is that there's nobody left who speaks in that kind of "Brooklynese" anymore.
Also -- I always enjoy JB drawing in a "cartoony" style. I wish he'd had more opportunities to do it over the years.
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Adam Schulman
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| Posted: 17 August 2018 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | 8
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Inappropriate use. Don't see Kang as a kusser.
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Maybe they were 40th century bad words?
<shrug>
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Ed Aycock
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Wolverine also like to conjugate the verb "to muck" quite a bit and it didn't take a lot of imagination to figure out what he meant when he said to Professor Xavier that he didn't like him "mucking about in people's heads."
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Bill Collins
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Ed, we often use the word mucking instead of messing in
the U.K. with no inference of the `F` word intended.
Maybe Chris or J.B. picked it up over here?
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John Byrne
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Yeah, in my mind muck is just muck!This is reminding me of the Seventies, when DC was using "freak" as their f-word. Eventually the Keepers of the Code figured it out and told them to stop!
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Jeffrey Rice
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| Posted: 20 August 2018 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | 12
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Like on the Battlestar Galactica remake. They used Flarkin' (?) or somesuch so often, it lost any effectiveness.
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