Part the Motherfucking First: Wikipedia says the earliest use of “motherfucker” was from the records of the Texas Court of Appeals in 1889. But the first usage cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1918: “You low-down Mother Fuckers can put a gun in our hands but who is able to take it out?”

The sentence seems to be from a letter to Crisis, the journal edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, regarding an article about black American soliders and WWI.

Part the Motherfucking Second: From a photograph of a school, sent today by my friend Nevdon, who teaches the children of foreign ambassadors in India:

Part the Motherfucking Third: From DAMN! A Book of Calumny by H. L. Mencken:

Herbert Spencer’s objection to swearing, of which so much has been made by moralists, was not an objection to its sinfulness but an objection to its charm. In brief, he feared comfort, satisfaction, joy. The boarding houses in which he dragged out his gray years were as bare and cheerless as so many piano boxes. He avoided all the little vices and dissipations which make human existence bearable: good eating, good drinking, dancing, tobacco, poker, poetry, the theatre, personal adornment, philandering, adultery. He was insanely suspicious of everything that threatened to interfere with his work. Even when that work halted him by the sheer agony of its monotony, and it became necessary for him to find recreation, he sought out some recreation that was as unattractive as possible… Brought to bay by his human need for a woman, he directed his fancy toward George Eliot, probably the most unappetizing woman of his race and time. Drawn irresistibly to music, he avoided the Fifth Symphony and “Tristan und Isolde,” and joined a crowd of old maids singing part songs around a cottage piano. John Tyndall saw clearly the effect of all this and protested against it, saying, “He’d be a much nicer fellow if he had a good swear now and then.”