Exalt her and she shall bring you to honour

[zotz]

Yes, it's a picture of me baring my torch. Obviously.

Writers Bloc had readings in Biggar and Prestonpans.

Comments

[nmg]

The funny bit is that in the offending phrase, "fucking" is an adverb.

Is it? I thought that it was a verbal adjective (so, a participle).

[valkyriekaren]

He's right, you know. To be an adverb it has to modify a verb.

Actually I don't think there is an adverbal form of 'fucking'. What would that be? 'Fuckingly'?

"How's it going?"
"Fuckingly, absolutely fuckingly!"

[zotz]

It may or may not amaze you to hear that certain individuals on t'internet (obviously individuals with nothing whatsoever in common with you, me or Nick) have nothing better to do with their time than debate this, and have apparently done so at some length.

Here is one. There seem to be a large number of others.

[nmg]

I stand corrected - I've just checked the OED entries for 'extremely', 'most' and 'very', and the sense in which 'fucking' is used is adverbial.

I shall now bore people with this fact at the next party I attend, and it'll all be your fault.

[naturalbornkaos]

Of course Swervedriver are back. Shoegazing is the in thing again. :)

[zotz]

I've seen Neu! shirts, yes. Actually, I've got a Neu! album, too.

The Meadows Festival was abandoned by its previous owners due to increased hassle over things like liability insurance and difficulty recruiting helpers, I believe. The new organisers seem to have made a good start at working it back to where it was, though, which is good because it was good fun.

The N word

[jgbingo]

I can confirm that the "N" word was still acceptable, or at least still publishable, in children's books in the UK as late as 1974, since it appears in my 1974 reprint of the 1951 classic "Henry the Green Engine" by the Rev W. Awdry. (Kaye & Ward hardback edition pg 60)

In the Rev.'s defence, the context is description of some boys whom Henry has covered in ash ejected from his smokebox, and when reading this book to my son the "N" word in this simile is easily substituted with the word "coal". But I must replace and/or hide this book when he learns to read...