Bob Cesca: I Like To Use The F-Word A Lot (HuffPost)

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Bob Cesca

03.04.2007

I Like To Use The F-Word A Lot (121 comments)

When I was in college, I worked a Summer job delivering pizzas for a Domino's franchise at King's Park Shopping Center in Annandale, Virginia, which was less than a mile from my parent's house.

It was actually a great gig for a college student, aside from the embarrassing orange and powder-blue uniforms. I was constantly on the move and the scenery always changed -- and at the end of the day, I brought home a giant wad of tip cash (which my Dad, an inspector general with Treasury, diligently made me claim on my tax return). There was a simplicity about it that was extremely satisfying to me at the time, especially given the rest of my year which was occupied by the stresses of college.

My enthusiasm must've showed. One night while closing up shop, the store manager pulled me aside and blurted out, "Bob, you'd make a great manager."

"Oh," I said, "Thanks, I --"

He quickly cut me off, "But you say the word 'fuck' too much."

And that was that. My potty mouth would prevent me from hypothetically managing a Domino's franchise. Years later, I learned that one of the reasons the f-word would keep me from my nonexistent career aspirations with Domino's was due to the fact that the company's founder, Tom Monaghan, is a devout Republican Catholic whose faith was "born again" in the late 1980s. .....(more)

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1. Reminds me of an old song

and I can't recall the originator:

- "I wish my girlfriend didn't say fuck so much."

I differ with the Catholic angle. I don't think "fuck" has a place in retail transactions regardless of one's religion.

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2. Different people are offended by different words

And some aren't. Whadda ya gonna do? Fuck if I know.

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3. For some reason, I'm flashing back to Alice's Restaurant, where

a simple case of littering got someone out of the draft. Anyawy, I had a similar experience in the 1970's, getting fired from my cushy grocery store gig unloading trucks after my sideburns were too long and management decided no lower than the tip of the ear lobe. Ah, the road not travelled, let's all drink a fucking toast to it!

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4. Context is all

A friend of mine used the tried-and-true rhetorical tactic in a sermon on poverty. After running through an appalling list of just how badly off the poor are, how well off the rich are, and how profound a difference could be made with just a minor readjustment in the distribution of wealth in this country, he rounded off with, "And the sad fact is, most of you don't give a shit about any of this. What's even sadder, is that more of you are going to be offended by the word I just used than by the index of facts that preceded it."