02-21-2006, 04:29 PM
[wcip]Angel,Feb 21 2006, Wrote:The issue of cursing is not entirely dissimilar to that of the story of the little boy who cried "wolf".As Garak put it, I thought the moral of the story was to never tell the same lie twice.
The first couple of times "Wolf!!" (or !$£¤#) garnered enough attention - people came arunnin' to see what all the fuss was about. They were intrigued by what they heard, but were soon disappointed when they quickly realised there was little or no substance to the shocking cries of our young boy. In the end, "Wolf!!" would be ignored and dismissed as simple background noise, and when the small boy was really being mauled by the dreary wolf - when there really was a call for "Holy sh*t, there's a f*cking wolf eating me alive!!!" - there were no one there to pay him any heed.
The moral of the story: Curse when you must, not when you may.
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