If you had a million years to do it, you couldn'r rub out even half the "fuck you" signs in the world.  It's impossible.

        I'm not being pessimistic, but it is.

        There are porbably a million things that you can talk about in this book, but I chose this quotation because it's the most interesting part--and the most truthful.  The truth accounts for a lot these days, especially since there's so little of it going around.

         If you had a million years to do it, you couldn'r rub out even half the "fuck you" signs in the world.  It's impossible.

        It sounds like one of those trivia's that come out in between shows in CNN.  Or like something Ripley would say.  The humor may be a little hard to trace, but it's the simpleness of the fact that makes it laughable.  A gazzillion words in the English language, a fraction of which are words of anger, and we chose these 2 words to express ourselves.  Fuck you.  There's no dictionary meaning about this (I checked, they were probably embarassed to even think of including this), but when we think about it, we chose something that translates to:sex you.  Since there is no doer indicated, modern English dictates that the doer is the speaker himself.  Sort of like "eat you"  turns into "I eat you".  So the end result would be "I sex you", which comes out as an invitation of sex.

        I don't want to open up anything about sex and morailty (which are fast becoming taboos in our society when said in the same breathe), but isn't as invitation to have sex supposed to be some sort of a compliment?

        Well, if somebody asked me at his age I would be seriously offended ("What do you think I am, some sort of a nymph?!"), but since the majority of those using the expression are Americans, we will base this on them.

        Think about it.  "Fuck you may seem like an offensive word, especially when it's said  with so much hostility and saliva raining out of their mouth, but once you think about it, it really is not.

       Countless of people all over the world have been writing anf yelling the wrong thing.  Whoever invented the term (chances are, he was also American) must have been really angry to confuse the words.

        But then, human beings are sp clever that they always have an excuse for the mistakes they made.  A little research, a little philosophy here and there, and they can prove that the word CHAIR can be an offensive word.

        That would be dumb, imagine shouting CHAIR at your date when he shows up 3 hours late without your theater tickets.  Or muttering CHAIR when you're stuck in traffic under the sweltering heat of the sun in Espana.  Maybe we can say SOFA when were really mad, after all, it's a bigger pieceof furniture.

        But if ever the world does wake up and realize that they have been saying the wrong thing for the past eons,  the human race might just witness another miracle that's enough to rival the parting of the red sea: the disappearance of all the "fuck you" signs in the world.

        It's weird,r eally.  I'm sure no one would mind having an offensive word scribbled in the front wall of their apartment, but having an invitation of sex written in front og your apartment???  There will be a lot of people marching around with buckets of soapy water and sponge for the next few years.
 

        But if that really happened, then the quotation wouldn't be so true anymore, and Cather in The Rye wouldn'tbe the same without it's famous quote.