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Its been a great ride kids and I just want to push higher and higher and be the best damn fucking read you have each day.
-The boss, your boy Joey
Good Morning Gloucester 
All right Joey. I can’t think of anything you could do to improve it. It’s so good. In my case though, I would love to see more videos and pictures of the lobsterboats and lobstermen. And also maybe you could send me an e-mail if I get to rude and crude or to insulting. Because I know I can. But I usually speak my mind. And if anyone insults GMG, well God help them because they will surely see my opinion . The only other thing I can say is I love the blog about shaving certain parts. But I’m sure if there is too much of that people would complain. It seams to me you had everything covered from art to all the festivals and in between.
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Joey–we want more Laurie Lufkin. She represents the best that the North Shore has to offer and you need to showcase her talents regularly. Thank you for everything you do!
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Joey, I’m looking forward to some really good reporting of the coming gathering of those who built Phil Bolger boats. Plenty of photos please and some good interviews with builders and those who loved and admired Mr. Bolger. Thank you from Idaho.
Stephen Neal
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GMG is definitely my favorite BDFR of the day. I like it just the way it is. My only gripe is that it’s making Gloucester so damned lovable that by the time we’re ready to give up living on our trawler we won’t be able to afford to live there.
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Joey;
I love the blog and read it everyday
However, your phrase
“and be the best damn fucking read you have each day.”
Be careful using this kind of profanity. Many of your readers are religious and are offended by this language. Remember your a professional
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I’m a professional? LOL
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Well, at least he did’nt ask for his subscription money back. 🙂
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I’m curious. Is saying “fucking” wrong in the bible?
I mean I could see “Jesus Fucking Christ” being wrong, but is saying “fucking” by itself a sin?
Fucking can’t be bad could it?
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Keep pushing buttons Joey! Pretty soon everyone will want their money back.
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I think another poll maybe on its way
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Here is the supposed origin of the F-Word
A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil’s Storehouse of Human Knowledge
What’s the origin of the “F” word?
August 31, 1984
Dear Cecil:
The following question isn’t something I could send to Action Line, but I’ve always wanted to know: what is the origin of the “F” word? A friend told me it’s an abbreviation of “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,” which was supposedly stamped on the foreheads of couples who were locked up in the stocks for fornicating without benefit of matrimony. Also, whither the expression “fuck you”? I’ve always agreed with George Carlin, who says “unfuck you” would be a more appropriate curse, indicating you hope the person you are cursing would never enjoy the pleasure of sex again, rather than wishing them the opposite.
— Lois S., Mesa, Arizona
Cecil replies:
This is going to be a little crude, folks, but let’s try to keep a stiff upper lip. I’ve heard a number of variations of the “fuck-as-acronym” story, none of which, in my opinion (and that of most linguists), is even remotely likely: (1) It stands for “fornication under consent of the king,” which was supposedly tacked up over the doors of government-approved brothels in early England. (2) It stands for “for the use of carnal knowledge,” which allegedly was stamped on condoms, or, alternatively, used the same way as “for unlawful carnal knowledge.”
This passion for preposterous acronyms seems to be peculiar to Anglo-Americans, and some believe it started around World War I, about the same time many acronyms began popping up in government. Others I’ve come across include P.O.S.H. (“port outward, starboard home”), said to have been stamped on the tickets of first class passengers on India-bound British ships who wanted their cabins on the shady side of the boat during the passage through the tropics; C.O.P. (“constable on patrol”); and T.I.P. (“to insure promptness”). All are rubbish. The best guess is that “fuck” comes from the Middle English fucken, to strike, move quickly, penetrate, from the German ficken, meaning approximately the same thing. A related word may be the Middle Dutch fokken, to strike, copulate with. We get a clue here as to the level of delicacy and tenderness that has characterized the sex act down through the ages, and which is recalled by the charming epithet “fuck you.”
Many other possible etymologies have been offered. Some claim the F-word (sorry to have to resort to this lame expression, but you have no idea how tiresome it can be to type “fuck” a million times) is a truncation of “fecund.” Richard Spears, author of the splendid Slang and Euphemism, says the word may be a disguise of the French foutre, same meaning, which comes from the Latin futuere. Another possible origin, Professor Spears says, is the Latin pungo, to prick. Give me a break, doc.
Having totally ODed on gutter epithets, let us move briefly to the cheerful world of euphemism. Professor Spears has amassed an awesome collection of synonyms for the generative act (under “occupy,” p. 278, in case you’re the type who likes to look up dirty words in reference books), including the following, which gives you an idea of the never-ending richness of the English language: bang, batter, beef, bumble, blow off the loose corns, bounce the brillo, dance the buttock jig, do a dive in the dark, flimp, flurgle, foin, foraminate, futz, get one’s leather stretched, get one’s nuts cracked, get one’s oil changed, go bird’s nesting, go bush-ranging, go like a rat up a rhododendron, go star-gazing on one’s back, have a bun in the oven, have a game in the cock-loft, have a leap up the ladder, have hot pudding for supper, hide the ferret, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hive it, jazz it, knock it off, lay some pipe, light the lamp, lose the lamp and pocket the stake, make her grunt, mix one’s peanut butter, palliardize, pestle, pheeze, pizzle, play cars and garages, plow, plug, plook, ram, rasp, ride below the crupper, shoot between wind and water, strop one’s beak, varnish one’s cane, wet one’s wick, wind the clock, and work the hairy oracle–some 675 synonyms in all. The ingenuity displayed in this, ahh, well-plowed ground is nothing short of awesome.
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Well Joey, whatever it means or wherever it came from doesn’t matter to me. All I know is it’s no swear and as adults we should be able to use the words we wish to without people coming down on someone. My mother is kind of religious and if I ever heard the word shit come out of her mouth I think I’d drop. Yet, I’ve said fuck in front of her and she didn’t say shame on you. Religious or not people shouldn’t be offended by it. Boy, I better watch what I write (especially when talking about shaving certain parts of a mans body). I must of surely offended someone. That’s my only problem with the blog. I listen to talk like this quite often at work and I love it. But I write what I think and after a couple of days later I think “oh shit, maybe I shouldn’t of written that down. So sorry if I gave to much information. It will be hard but I’ll try to be good from now on. And when I write “boy, what I could of written on this” you’ll know it would of been good to people who don’t get offended. Thank God I’m not like that. I couldn’t stand trying to tell people what they can and can’t say. Joey, You talk the way you want. It’s your blog. If it was mine, well never mind.
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