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An issue of cussing Friday, December 14, 2001 • read strip Viewing 38 comments:

What other comic would provide such a well crafted Aaron Sorkin joke?
None, that is what other comic would provide this service.

A comment left by tekende was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Gold7600, BPMead, hellsfruition)

Having now seen The West Wing, this strip no longer leaves me cold and confused. Amazing scenes.

Sorkin feels a gentle pressure on his neck. Unseen hands have taken his pulse.

^5

It's also much like a David Mamet script.

No, mr_wilson, this is Mamet...

Philippe: Lyle's cussing!
Mr. Bear: Gabriel? Swearing? AGAIN?!
Philippe: He's cussing!
Mr. Bear: That fucking cocksucker thinks he can come into my fuckin house and put that fuckin' sauce in your ears?! He's fuckin dead!
Téodor: Hey assholes, which one-a you fuckin assholes is cussing?!
Mr. Bear: Gabriel.
Philippe: He's cussing!
Téodor: Everybody cusses. That's why they fuckin call it cussing!
Lyle: The fuck?
Téodor, Mr. Bear: Cut that fuckin shit out!
Philippe: No cussing!

I want more of Mamet's Achewood.

It better have Joe Mantegna in it. I'm also guessing it would now be set in Chicago.

Achewood is already about the complex relationships between men and features few female characters of note with basically all of them being defined entirely by their relationships to the men (girlfriend and mothers all). It's pretty much there already.

don't cuss.

I'm skeptical. If Aaron Sorkin had really produced it, they'd be walking all over the house while they talked.

Purposefully.

With long, drawn out cinematic camera paths...


Seeeeeerved.

*Rimshot*

Drags out Pedants Anonymous card

But I chubbied you anyway!

A comment left by evolume was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by EM2, TheGreatestCape, morbo)

Man, now I've got to dig out those Sports Night tapes.

Somehow, I think I would've enjoyed this more if it were "cussin'." That's just me.

[url=www.nocussing.com]www.nocussing.com[/url]

*sigh*

www.nocussing.com

In my prayers tonight i will pray, "god, please make the no cussing club not exist, that shit scares me, thanks god, you rock"

That is not what god is for. God's for like, laser-vision and world hunger.

This is the best fucking thing I have ever seen.

No cussing!

SHIT, yo

i JUST came here to post the same link!

What the fuck ?
Fuckfucketyfuckfuck

seriously, this has made my evening. i will be ordering ten of their no cussing wristbands and the positive hugs cards tomorrow after work. fucking hilarious

hah, that positive hugs card reminds me of an old mantra of mine:
Negative words but positive feelings.
basically, tell your friends such as "i'll fuck your dad if that would hurt your feelings" but really mean "i love you and i would be nice if i didnt know we are friends forever." it's...a useless method of doing anything, but fun as all hell.

That scares me deeply. It's people like that that caused me to pledge to increase my level sometime around my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. I think that playing about 20 hours of Super Smash Bros. with friends gave me exactly what I needed to come out on top.

Aaron Sorkin was a massiv dope fiend. Maureen Dowd dated him.

I gave this a five and I am astounded anyone would not do the same.

i don't know why this one is only at 3.5, i thought it was brilliant

i love that the word "cussing" appears 11 times, but there is no actual cussing in the strip.

There is so an actual cussing. I counted 11 of them.

brian michael bendis

Further on in the archive I think the cast would be a lot more shocked if Lyle wasn't cussing.

I loved this strip, and I don't even know who Aaron Sorkin is. I just love that they're so upset about that goddamn Lyle and his cussing!