Word: pisses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artistic ground they stood on after this last trick, because as I left, Oderus was running to take predictable, wimpy refuge behind the first amendment. Spurting a yellowish stream out of his trusty member, he screamed, "Is this pornography or is this art? Is this cum or is this piss...
...doesn't he? "Because they're my coworkers, and I would piss the whole building off. Even the judges smoke. I've even seen a judge smoking a cigar in the elevator...
...those elements of society that are in need of help way beyond anything the states can deliver. The Federal Government has an important role to play in programs for the disabled, special education, enrichment programs like Head Start. Ronald Reagan and ((former Education Secretary William)) Bennett used to really piss me off when they said they wanted to "get the Federal Government out of education," as if the Federal Government were in education. Ninety percent of the dollars for education are state and local. But that final 10% is crucial, because some programs have no political constituency...
...vice presidency calls up its rueful folklore. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas, F.D.R.'s Vice President from 1933 to 1941, did not say the office was "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." He said it was "not worth a pitcher of warm piss." The line is almost always cleaned up for the civics class. No one has improved on Mr. Dooley's formulation: "Th' Prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' Vice-Prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail...
...underlying reference in the above editorial, in case you didn't get it, is to the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Just because he took six photographs of the piss-in-your-neighbor's-mouth variety, the argument goes, people shouldn't fail to recognize the remarkable quality and skill he demonstrated in his other work. Neither should the myriad of high-quality, unoffensive artistic specimens he provided be banned...