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[cimorene]

is it only pink who would rhyme 'up' with 'you stupid fuck'?

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Nah. There's Robert Herrick:

I dare not ask a kiss
I dare not beg a smile
Lest having that or this
I might grow proud the while

No no, I cannot speak
I am a stupid fuck
For though the joke was weak
It crack-ed my shit up

[cimness.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHHAAH!

i've never heard that song before, but i read a jeeves/wooster that quoted it the other day!

XD

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I do pay attention to your journal, you know.

Actually Herrick's second verse is something about kissing the air that lately kiss-ed thee.

::blush::

[cimness.livejournal.com]

maybe if i knew who he was, the second verse would have struck me as strange even through the 'hey, where do i know this from?' of the first.
of course i guess 'stupid fuck' wasn't in use much in the period where jeeves & wooster are set.

Re: ::blush::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Moreso, I imagine, than Mr Herrick's period. He was an Elizabethan, like Sir Philip Bleeding Sidney.

Actually a lot of his stuff is pretty filthy, but you can't always tell on first read.

Re: ::blush::

[cimness.livejournal.com]

filthy is one thing, but 'fuck' as a noun meaning a person is another.

although maybe it isn't really anachronistic.

shakespeare had surprising amounts of slang. or slang...ish things.

[kitten-head.livejournal.com]

quite possibly, yes.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

XD

apparently someone else has but he was calling HIMSELF a stupid fuck.

whereas pink is all casual. 'you could've called me up, you stupid fuck.'

i didn't like her new album as much as britney's--don't think i'll pay for it--but there are tracks i really like.