Because that certainly seems like the most likely word to end the sentence that lady's yelling at the professor in the third panel of this installment of Apartment 3-G. But they had to use the "@#*%" symbols to fill in for the swear word, and "hell" is an awfully "soft" swear word to have to go full caps lock-ed number keys to cover up. Perhaps in actuality that lady is telling the professor to "Go to fuck!!" Such a strange phrase might explain his whirling, wobbly-headed reaction to her statement.
The lady in question, is...well rather questionable. So I guess she can swear in little @#$# is she wants to.
ReplyDeleteThe problem that more concerns me, is that blondes should NEVER wear purple.
As someone who used to work on a newspaper, yeah, "hell" is definitely discouraged. I mean, we used to get complaints that Lio and Get Fuzzy were offensive. Gary Larson used to get away with a "damn" or a "hell" sometimes, back in the day, though I suspect the tolerance for that has grown even more conservative since then.
ReplyDeleteFuck the heck?
ReplyDelete"Get to fuck" is a widely-used Scottish phrase. I wonder if she's being a bit transatlantic.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told, she actually said, "Go to cunt!" Hence the reason for the symbols and the shocked look on the man's face.
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