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Fri, Mar 19 2004
Give Me Fever
Well, I guess I know just how not to use the Seven Dirty Words after the January entry at Yet Another Web Site used some of those words on Doug Ose and Lamar Smith for writing up H.R.3687. Wait a minute. I counted five single words and three compound uses of words. And what does the phrase "with other words or phrases" mean? For a couple of guys who wanted to clarify the word "profane", they didn't do a very good job of it.
I have a question. Very often we hear "god" used with one or more of these words. Due to the ongoing issues over the separation of church and state, has the word "god" been omitted from the list because it is considered a religious term, and therefore not under the jurisdiction of Congress and the FCC? I know folks who are a lot more offended by the phrase "goddamn" than they are by the word "damn".
Wait a minute. The word "damn" isn't on the list either. Oh, I guess that's a religious word too, isn't it? Maybe a word can be on the list if it's in the Bible, but refers to something not inherently religious. The word "piss" is used a time or two in the most widely accepted version of the Bible, but I suppose it's not a religious word. So does "profane" (for purposes of H.R. 3687) mean a word that is profane in the secular sense, but not in the religious sense? Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
I have another question. Who decided that certain names for body parts are profane? Is it the names or the body parts that are profane? If it has to do with using non-scientific names for reproductive organs, why do they not make profane those terms such as "hooters" and "johnson"? Is it because those are cute nicknames that offend fewer people? And if it's the reproductive body parts themselves that are profane, why are there so many navels showing on TV? A navel is a body part we all have as an end result of reproduction, so to me, it's technically a reproductive organ. Why don't they ban "navel" or that other term we have for it? Let's ban "belly button".
Belly button. Belly Button. BELLY BUTTON!!!
That one's for you, Johnny Fever.
posted at: 10:46 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Well, I guess I know just how not to use the Seven Dirty Words after the January entry at Yet Another Web Site used some of those words on Doug Ose and Lamar Smith for writing up H.R.3687. Wait a minute. I counted five single words and three compound uses of words. And what does the phrase "with other words or phrases" mean? For a couple of guys who wanted to clarify the word "profane", they didn't do a very good job of it.
I have a question. Very often we hear "god" used with one or more of these words. Due to the ongoing issues over the separation of church and state, has the word "god" been omitted from the list because it is considered a religious term, and therefore not under the jurisdiction of Congress and the FCC? I know folks who are a lot more offended by the phrase "goddamn" than they are by the word "damn".
Wait a minute. The word "damn" isn't on the list either. Oh, I guess that's a religious word too, isn't it? Maybe a word can be on the list if it's in the Bible, but refers to something not inherently religious. The word "piss" is used a time or two in the most widely accepted version of the Bible, but I suppose it's not a religious word. So does "profane" (for purposes of H.R. 3687) mean a word that is profane in the secular sense, but not in the religious sense? Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
I have another question. Who decided that certain names for body parts are profane? Is it the names or the body parts that are profane? If it has to do with using non-scientific names for reproductive organs, why do they not make profane those terms such as "hooters" and "johnson"? Is it because those are cute nicknames that offend fewer people? And if it's the reproductive body parts themselves that are profane, why are there so many navels showing on TV? A navel is a body part we all have as an end result of reproduction, so to me, it's technically a reproductive organ. Why don't they ban "navel" or that other term we have for it? Let's ban "belly button".
Belly button. Belly Button. BELLY BUTTON!!!
That one's for you, Johnny Fever.
posted at: 10:46 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
