gauchecritic
When there are grey skies
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My favourite joke of the moment as told by Alan Davies:
Two beekeepers are chatting and one asks the other how many bees he keeps. "About 60,000." is the reply.
"So how many hives do you have then?"
"Twenty." The second asks of the first "How many bees do you keep?"
"A million."
"A million." Impressed. "So how many hives do you have then?"
"One."
"One? You've got a million bees and you keep them in one hive?"
"Yeah. They're only bees. Fuck 'em."
Not only is this seriously amusing to me (still laughing whenever I think about it) but it gave me a reason for a new thread.
Expletives. Cursing. Swear words. I realise that it's partly the shock value that makes this particular joke funny but it also makes the punch line. This thought led me to think about erotica and dirty words.
Do expletives enhance an erotic story? Does overuse make it smut? Should you have "Fuck my cunt." as your opening sentence or are you condemning your story to parody? Where can you possibly go from there without desensitizing readers to the effectiveness of similar words?
Never having knowingly read a story from the Romance category, I wonder: Do shock words have any place there?
Gauche
Two beekeepers are chatting and one asks the other how many bees he keeps. "About 60,000." is the reply.
"So how many hives do you have then?"
"Twenty." The second asks of the first "How many bees do you keep?"
"A million."
"A million." Impressed. "So how many hives do you have then?"
"One."
"One? You've got a million bees and you keep them in one hive?"
"Yeah. They're only bees. Fuck 'em."
Not only is this seriously amusing to me (still laughing whenever I think about it) but it gave me a reason for a new thread.
Expletives. Cursing. Swear words. I realise that it's partly the shock value that makes this particular joke funny but it also makes the punch line. This thought led me to think about erotica and dirty words.
Do expletives enhance an erotic story? Does overuse make it smut? Should you have "Fuck my cunt." as your opening sentence or are you condemning your story to parody? Where can you possibly go from there without desensitizing readers to the effectiveness of similar words?
Never having knowingly read a story from the Romance category, I wonder: Do shock words have any place there?
Gauche