Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.