Comments on "You cunt-lapping dog!"

The Red Sox kick ass.

I would probably have greater interest in baseball if it had (more?) cunnilingus in it.

Is that about fans being ejected for chanting "Yankees Suck"?

The thought of guys with vandyke beards and round glasses shouting such insults from the stands is hilarious.

> The cultural myth that America in the past was a more polite, less conflicted place, is right-wing bullshit of the first order, and items like this that bring us back to the fulsome filthiness of the past are invaluable.

Isn't that making the same assumption as the right-wing bullshit, i.e., that America used to be a certain way, and it should stay that way?

@5

Bam!

My baseball roto team name for 2008 may just have to be "Cunt-Lapping Dogs"

My 100 year old grandmother had the bullet casings from a school shoot out... Well it was more of a gun duel old-west-style in the middle of town where she was growing up in eastern Washington. Long before the invention of the High School Metal Detector. The way things were is over-rated - now you only have to go outside to shit if you're in a tent.

@7 : we still need a name for our new soccer club, no?

Au contraire @5:

Chicago Fan isn't making an assumption about previously held cultural norms, rather he's citing a specific, easily verifiable example to make the point that such idealization of our social, political, or cultural landscape is, at best naive, and at worst, an attempt to rewrite the historical narrative, just as when for instance, political candidates decry the diminishment of "civility" in contemporary political discourse, whereas the historical record in fact clearly indicates there has never really been any extensive period of time in which such gentility was actually practiced.

@9 - I thought we decided Green River Killers?

A writer friend of mine was complaining that the dialogue in Deadwood wasn't period. I will have to show this to her to counter her assertion that people in the late nineteenth century wouldn't say "cocksucker" every fourth word like Al Swearengen does.

and people say rimming and blowjob's started in the 60's

@ 10

Okay, so Chicago Fan's old-timey America is more grounded in fact, but he's still assuming that because old-time America was a certain way, modern America should also be that way.

Where does he state that he believes it should be that way, instead of that it still is that way(so deal with it)?

@10 and 15

Thanks for perceptive reading.

Bill