you-cant-say-that

So this past weekend, I spent an evening with some girlfriends and we ripped up just about every subject you can imagine–and then some. Nearly peeing-in-the-pants-funny things were said, and it made me wonder, what is off limits to steal. By steal, I mean put in a book.

I am not worried about copyright stuff as much as when your friend screams out, “apparently I have a problem with swollen @#$% (insert a particular body part here that I cannot bring myself to put in at this early hour of the morn).” I do believe at least two of the gals at the gathering spewed liquor at this very loud, very random statement. hehe

And I SO want to use it, or some semblance of it, in a book. But is that wrong to do? Should that little admittance be left solely to the utterer to use?

More over, are things from non-writer friends, or family off limits for books or is life fair game for verbiage fodder? Personally, if I hear it, inevitably it will end up in written form somewhere–but maybe just something I have written for myself.