ABSTRACT
Qualifiers can do the f-word a power of good, diverting attention from the simplest of vulgarities to the rather more complex longer words, with other elongated, dark associations. The M-F-variation highlighted the year 2002's "World Economic Forum", held in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. A pop star named Bono, an Irish lead singer for the U-2 group, called for a great new Marshall Plan on behalf of poverty stricken Africa, and he tried his best to arouse the assembled billionaires of the globalization klondike to action. He called them "corporate mother-fuckers"; but at this late stage of the vernacular breakthrough, nobody batted an eyelash or blushed an earlobe. Bono went on to discuss the implications of his remarks with President Bush's Treasury Secretary, the worthy Paul O'Neill, and then to solidify his militant global front against the M-F-hordes, chatting up the UN's Kofi Annan and the South African clergyman, Bishop Desmond Tutu.
