From a cultural standpoint, if ever there was a ground zero for a sweeping change in definition and acceptance of a once-vile term, it was when Motherfucker Evangelist Samuel L. From that moment, things were different. Prior to that particular pinpoint of time, the term motherfucker , whilst still in frequent use in many facets of society, was often considered nothing more than putrid slang; merely a crude word deriving from a guttural language contrived by the street urchin. And while the hip-hop and rap boom of the early s certainly played its part in planting the motherfucker seed into our collective consciousness, and eventually into the Oxford English Dictionary [see above], this pliable word has spent well over a century manifesting into the delightful term and definition that we use today. In reality, history tells us otherwise. If ever there was hard evidence of a normally intangible cultural change, this is it.
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This is one of the few serendipitous sessions that though it shouldn't have happened, it did happen through no effort. It was handed to us by illness and nothing else. We'll take it. It was on this day well over a year and a half ago that Deer Tick was set to record its second session, but a long and hard tour the only kind the band knows was at its end and they'd just hauled from Colorado to try and get there in time for the taping. Lead singer John McCauley III was in horrendous shape and after getting set up and running through the first song, he pulled the plug, feeling taxed and sick.
Motherfucker sometimes abbreviated as mofo , mf , or mf'er is an English-language vulgarism. While the word is usually considered highly offensive, it is rarely used in the literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's mother, or his or her own mother. Rather, it refers to a mean, despicable, or vicious person, or any particularly difficult or frustrating situation.