Why not kiss Roseanne? People are making way too much of her show - I can't believe how hostile and anal-retentive our society is!'īut have you read the book? Have you gotten to the part where Roseanne's gums keep bleeding because she keeps getting trench mouth? This was years ago, and she doesn't know how she got it, she says, but guesses: maybe from having sex with strangers for money in the back seats of cars, or maybe from eating the leftover food off her customers' plates (she was a waitress) and then vomiting it up in the bathroom. 'Oh, please,' said Dorothy Larimer, a beautiful big girl in a bright pink get-up. 'But I don't know how my boyfriend would feel about it.' 'I'd kiss Roseanne, sure,' said Julie Weiner.