Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 30, 2010

Not a very good golfer if he misses up close shots like that.

What language is he speaking?

@Llewellenbruce, French. As in pardon his French.

I think it’s Computerize……notice the @ symbol in his tyrade….

No wonder he’s upset, he’s got the wrong club.

I knew a Marine Gunnery Sergeant who had the middle finger of his left hand shot off. That reduced his vocabulary by 50%.

He has a brain!!! Wow!!!

Tiger’s locker room talk…

I reserve that kind of language for my computer & lousy drivers.

Nabuquduriuzhur said: “A foul mouth will never be a real disease. Tourettes is not taken seriously for a reason.”

Tourette’s is taken very seriously by those who have it, and by their friends and family. It’s a real condition, medically recognized since the 19th century, and uncontrollable profanity isn’t the only symptom. From the Encyclopedia of Medicine:

“Although vocal and motor tics are the hallmark of Tourette syndrome, such other symptoms as the expression of socially inappropriate comments or behaviors, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, self-injuring behavior, depression, and anxiety also appear to be associated with Tourette syndrome. Most research suggests that Tourette syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, although a gene responsible for Tourette syndrome has not yet been discovered.

“Tourette syndrome is found in all populations and all ethnic groups, but is three to four times more common in males than females and is more common in children than adults. The exact frequency of Tourette syndrome is unknown, but estimates range from 0.05% to 3%.”

Well, here’s one more reason why medical diagnoses should never be done by amateurs…

I have never heard of Tourette’s not being taken seriously, except by those ignorant of its existence and effects. (Of course that may be said of a great many other things, and not just medical ones.) Thanks for setting the record straight, SCATTY_423..

SCAATY_423 is right, not all people with Tourette’s swear. I knew a girl with Tourette’s who simply jumped around (motor tic).

I think someone might have to die over this… Right in the middle of his @*#^% theirs a skull? This could be bad VERY bad for spook!

Nabuquduriuzhur is right on when he says “for some reason” all too many people don’t take Tourette’s seriously. It is a pity that so much emphasis has been put on the swearing that in many people’s minds A = B and therefore B = A. There are certainly cases of Tourette’s without coprolalia (the fancy name for potty mouth, since the “copro” root means faeces), and WAY too many cases of unthinking, automatic coprolalia that don’t have any medical excuse at all.

Explicatives are involuntary for most people. The choice comes in which words you are going to use. Will you cultivate traditional boring explicatives like “rats” or “crumble”, creative alternatives like “Brussels sprouts” , pseudo blasphemies like “damn”, or a 6 year old potty mouth?

No wonder he can’t make the shot…that club is bigger than he is.

prfesser, I know how he feels, I’m mid 40’s and I still have it. It gets me physically tired at times. I get the nastiest tics, and NO swearing.

Oh fudge!

Tourettes is not a funny thing, II have hhadd a couple of people I have known with it. It wiill drive away friend’s, family & others. The person with it becomes issollated by everyone & that can lead to depression & even suicide.

Golf- the number one cause of tourette’s.

There are far too many illnesses/disorders, like Tourettes, that have been trivialized by making them a basis for humor. People joke about the coprolalia aspect of it, so then it is harder to take the real thing seriously. Same thing goes for Narcolepsy (which I have). My sympathy goes out to anyone who has to suffer through a disease that others joke about.