POP! #!$%&! flew out of my wife's mouth at 5:30 am, and OOPS! I $#@!*! made it to 6:11 am. That's TERRIBLE. We swore off swearing for Lent and didn't make it through breakfast....
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I'm swearing off sweets for Lent, and the donuts on the food table are calling to me. Help. I, on the other hand, plan to swear like a whole platoon of sailors...one vice to another...!
I told someone else that the Catholics can have their lenten promises. Protestants eat the pancakes on Tuesday and then just live their lives until the Easter Bunny arrives. :-)
Gord, we're prods too, and what's this thing with *%)$#!!! pancakes?
gary, do yourself a favor and give up something important for lent instead like...meat.
Like Gordo says!.. it's ALL about the pancakes!
I'm giving up giving up
I'll tell you this-there is no way I am giving up pancakes for Lent!!!! OK, I give in, no meat for Lent....
I gave up swearing, too, and lasted only until the guy in the Mitsubishi SUV got too close behind me at the light this morning. I reset the clock.
hooowhee, I'd like to see Celeste try to give up swearing for 5 minutes!
These things take practice. So you slipped up!? We ALL do. The secret to successs is to try try again.... :)
Oh! Now I get it. Sorta like quitting smoking. If at first you don't succeed, keep trying? And the final solution, three weeks in the hospital on oxygen because you finally got pneumonia? Not highly recommended, but, in my case, it worked!
I am damned, I mean doomed already, so why hold back?
Whew, Mary Lee, quite a story.
My Grandma was a member of a United Methodist congregation. She always used to say she was giving up yachts and diamonds for lent.
Giving up swearing is such a noble thing to do. I know of people who've had success with this tactic: every time you slip up and utter a swear word, you must pay some fine (a quarter, a dollar) into a kitty. At the end of lent, you can donate the spoils to some worthy charity or other. It gets you back on track, back in the saddle. Don't give up!
I'm not giving up anything for lent, but I've thought about adopting a good habit that I will practice every day during lent: say one hour of writing in the diary, or fifteen minutes of cleaning every day, or a 30 minute brisk walk.
Keep up the good example. You and Mrs. Pottsblog are inspiring.
EH
Hey, as a Protestant, do you figure lent is 40 consecutive days culminating on Palm Sunday, or do the Sundays NOT count and the 40 days ends on Good Friday? I think for Roman Catholics, Lent ends on Good Friday.
Just wondering.
EH
asking me a theological question?????
EH, I think you missed the point: just as me and the missus need air to breathe, we need cussing for our health (apparently). We are NOT good examples to anyone. Plus, the more we try to clean up the language, the more %#&! pops out unbidden.
Oooooo. For punishment I think you should have to watch two hours of Barney.
Oh, Barney? How 'bout if I just try again?
I'm really just wondering if cuss words are stand-in beats to create a certan rhythm, like iambic pentameter or a haiku or something. I'll report my research later in this fine season.
Hey - I don't get the 'pancake' thing?
Apparently the pancake thing is a way to use up all your eggs and fat before Lent. I buy the fat argument, as Lent (at one time for some, still for others) is about fasting, but I'm not sure about the eggs.
We've started using picklefish at work. It serves double duty as an expletive and team mascot. We're still waiting on a visual, so if any of the artists around here care to come up with one...
What else? Oh, yes, EH, I remember as a child that Sundays didn't count - you can have what you gave up on those days - but that may have been my parents indulging me.
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