"I'm channeling everything that has happened in my life so far through Bastard Life," he said, explaining, "I've made Bastard Life the one true reflection of who I am".
"The oldest form is legitimate," says Mike Agnes, editor in chief of Webster's New World, "which tends to be used in the historical sense of 'to make a bastard child legitimate".' This is not the specific sense that television's talking heads use in discussing George W. Bush's forthcoming presidency.
It's not enough to make this bastard gold-plated – they added flowers!
We're going to make that bastard look at Ground Zero right out the window of the courtroom every day -- we're going to stick his nose in it like a dog who's made a mess on the rug: 'Look what you did! Bad dog! Bad!!'"?
On a live broadcast from backstage Leiser can be heard shouting "asshole" followed by an Italian insult that translates as, scusi, "bastard made of shit".
The painter Mark Rothko once hoped his art could make "rich bastards" feel bad about themselves.
"We decided, hell, we'll get that book, we can make these bastards eat crow," Mr. Cameron said in an interview in an oral history by Griffin Fariello, "Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition" (Norton, 1995).
I didn't agree with marriage for 30 years, but now I think it has been so politicised I'm determined to make the bastards pay for what they have done to us.
And I had a good chuckle over fundamentalist Jasper Massee's claim (1922) that acceptance of evolution "makes Jesus Christ the bastard son of illegitimate intercourse between Mary and Joseph," because I knew of no other writer who had questioned the legitimacy of their marriage.
I guess I miss my old friends and their jovial banter ("Get out of bed, ya lazy bastard?"; "Make us a brew"; "Geeza cigarette").
