Word: connore
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...strip The Boondocks, show no signs of getting used to the "unholy land" of the melanin-challenged. And their white neighbors offer anything but an easy welcome. Huey, named for former Black Panther Huey P. Newton, sees a man washing his car and shrieks in terror, "It's Bull Connor with a fire hose!" Later he starts a one-boy "Klanwatch." Cindy, a pony-tailed blond, can't believe her Afro-crowned neighbor, Jazmine, is half-black: "I just figured you were having a really bad hair...
Realizing I had better address my problem before it landed me a nickel in the can, I scheduled an appointment with Jim O'Connor, the founder of the Cuss Control Academy. Professor O'Connor is taking a break from teaching his two-hour, $45 classes to finish a book, which includes an entire chapter on the S word. However, he agreed to tutor me individually. O'Connor said I could use substitute words as a crutch, but advised employing a more positive, invective-free attitude. He suggested using shoot as a sort of cussing patch for the first few weeks...
Perhaps O'Connor's best suggestion was to "pretend your sweet little grandmother is always next to you." Although this did stop me from cursing, it also meant eating dinner at 4 p.m. and telling myself I needed a haircut. Again, I preferred cursing...
...class was ending, I asked Professor O'Connor a question I had long pondered: Was it O.K. to swear during sex, if done in an encouraging and loving way? "As long as your partner likes it, and if it's all part of the action, that's not a problem." I told him I meant when I was alone. That was an uncomfortable moment for both...
Fellow student Jonathan Rix, who calls himself a "recovering cursaholic," says O'Connor's school changed his life, although he didn't make any lifelong friends there. "The curse words used to come out through a filter, but now it's like I'm passing a kidney stone." I'm wondering if O'Connor can start a school for cutting out really unappealing metaphors...