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...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.

Poll #893 Funniest Epithet
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15


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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Date: 31 Jul 2009 01:36 am (UTC)
cupidsbow: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cupidsbow
I think I may have become a little desensitised in this fandom. I apologise. :(

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Date: 31 Jul 2009 05:49 am (UTC)
brownbetty: (Default)
From: [personal profile] brownbetty
No, I'm okay, no worries! But oh my.

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Date: 31 Jul 2009 04:21 pm (UTC)
cupidsbow: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cupidsbow
Well, that's a relief. I tell you, the good fic in this fandom is so worth it, but the badfic? I've never read badfic like it for sheer awfulness. It's not quite enough to drive me from the fandom, but some days it comes close.

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