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Wax and I got onto the subject of bad epithets...
...and it occurred to me that I now have a tie for favorite epithet I've ever read! That doesn't happen often. I mean usually there's ONE most horrifying fictional occurrence (example: child rape, still the top of The Horrifying Things Scale) or ONE hilarious epithet. Shocking things tend to blow whatever previously-most-shocking thing came before them out of the water, instead of leaping into a dead heat.
Speaking of The Horrifying Things Scale, I still place penis shrapnel at a mere 9/10 while child rape takes the cake at 10/10, but until recently I'd read three child rape stories and only one Penis Shrapnel Story, because, really, penis shrapnel: it's not the kind of thing you just come up with. But as of two days ago I've now had to say that I have read two penis shrapnel stories. Admittedly, there was no shrapnel, but there was a surprise!penis disfigurement involving Metal In A Way That Penises Aren't Meant To Involve Metal. And I think that, morally, that has to be grouped with Penis Shrapnel.
Poll #893 Funniest Epithet
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Which of my two favorite epithets is funniest?
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The average-sized apartment for a man who lives alone
3 (20.0%)
The red-haired athletic tennis player with a permanent bandage as a facial accessory
12 (80.0%)
Indeed those are funny but this write-in is funnier:
Speaking of The Horrifying Things Scale, I still place penis shrapnel at a mere 9/10 while child rape takes the cake at 10/10, but until recently I'd read three child rape stories and only one Penis Shrapnel Story, because, really, penis shrapnel: it's not the kind of thing you just come up with. But as of two days ago I've now had to say that I have read two penis shrapnel stories. Admittedly, there was no shrapnel, but there was a surprise!penis disfigurement involving Metal In A Way That Penises Aren't Meant To Involve Metal. And I think that, morally, that has to be grouped with Penis Shrapnel.
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That particular atory I mentioned is so infamous that I read a line or two of the 'highlights' in a review rather than in the story proper (thank goodness). I think the review did warn (although I followed a link to a point part way through, so wasn't really adequately warned), but I don't think the story warned appropriately -- that was part of the critique. Even the quotes made my eyes cross, however, so I clicked away before finishing the review.
In my experience, it's the writers who don't really understand what they've written who get you, because they don't know what to warn for. I'm actually starting to suspect that includes the show's writer, RTD, so perhaps in this fandom it should be considered canon. It would explain a lot.
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