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general to simply the American internet user, the Examiner will find that "fuck" is even more accepted on the internet than in the terrestrial world. If we compare the number of Google searches for the following terms: fucking, eating, sleeping, living, and dying, it appears that Americans are most preoccupied with living, but after that, fucking beats out the other essential gerunds by placing a strong Second in this five way race, and at one point in January 2006, "fucking" actually surpassed "living."[1] See Exhibit I.

living fucking eating sleeping dying

If the examiner does not have the benefit of seeing the graph in color, the lines are listed in top to bottom order, with "living" as the top line, and "dying" at the bottom. Of course, searches for "living" are not limited to that one term. A user could have searched for "Martha Stewart Living" or "Living in Chicago" and contributed to the search volume, just as one could have searched for "fucking aristocrats" or "fucking brilliant." However, the Examiner can not escape the fact that if the word "fucking" has been typed into the Google search engine more times than "eating" "sleeping" or "dying", then the Applicant would not be incorrect in


  1. This appears to be perhaps the result of some holiday cheer.

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