Stan Lee reinterprets the best four-letter word in the English language for us

Marvel Generalissimo Stan Lee has taken the internet podium (via his YouTube channel, World of Heroes) to let us all know that we've all been taking the phrase "Fuck you" the wrong way this whole time. We should embrace this blunt, two-syllable phrase not as a curse, but a benediction! And if there's anything the world needs right now, it's a little positivity. (via Stan Lee on Facebook)

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http://twitter.com/dailyrev Brian Donohue

I doubt anyone can improve on Carlin’s classic monologues in this area. “A cocksucker’s not a bad man — it’s a good woman!”
- Neng Lee
  
  Carlin also has the routine “un-f*%k you”, even funnier
Mister44

I’m sure that’s what he said to Jack Kirby more than once ;o)
- http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises
  
  And I’d dearly love to have heard Kirby’s Lower East Side rejoinder.
http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

If I weren’t seeing it I would have trouble distinguishing his delivery from Lewis Black’s,
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I was thinking that it was Gilbert Gottfried doing an Andy Rooney impression.
ShawShaw

If someone says to me, “Fuck you,” one of my favorite responses is to look them up and down coyly, cock and eyebrow and say, “Is that an invitation?”
- EH
  
  “Sorry you’re not my type” goes back at least 25 years for me.
  - Smash Martian
    
    My usual response is “Not without dinner and a movie first. I have *standards*.
    - http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises
      
      ”Alas, we haven’t been properly introduced.”
- cellocgw
  
  And you’re still in one piece? I can think of rather a lot of situations in which that response would have led to a major beat-down.
  - ShawShaw
    
    Coming from a 5’3″ woman such as myself, people don’t perceive it as a threat. I also don’t ever say it to those who could possibly see it as a come-on. It seems to work best with other women who take themselves far too seriously.
xzzy

Stan Lee reveals he’s not aware of how profanity (and the earning of “viewer discretion” warnings) works on youtube.
cellocgw

Didn’t Lenny Bruce beat him to it by about 50 years?
- Mark Kernes
  
  Close. About 50 years ago, psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis wrote in Pal Krassner’s The Realist that since sex is a pleasurable experience, the proper expletive should be “unfuck you.”
- http://profile.yahoo.com/NB5F7GHWTNWIXEJILSR3H6GIQU zibuki
  
  At least in the movie Lenny as depicted by Dustin Hoffman he did. In the movie Lenny is shown on stage doing a bit where he explains that “fuck you” is really a nice thing, and an insult is “unfuck you”, he also plays a guy that calls his mom and says, “Fuck you, mom.” in a joyous, loving way.
- buddy66
  
  Yep. Carlin also swiped it. “Fuck” comics should be made to wear “Lenny Bruce Died For My Sins” buttons.
Paul Renault

Learn from the masters – The Trailer Park Boys.

How it’s done, ladies and gents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasqeEGTPv4
http://www.facebook.com/dpease Dave Pease

agree w earlier commenter–man he sounds like a baked (you know, to take the edge off) gilbert gottfried
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Wow! J. Jonah Jameson’s got some mouth on him!
Boundegar

The sad part is, by “not saying the whole word,” he kind of undermined his own point. If only he’d embraced that “R rating.” It’s not like a lot of small children are searching on “Stan Lee Fuck” anyway.
Brett Myers

I kinda wish they’d put him on at the end of 60 Minutes. A Few Minutes With Stan Lee.