[lbo-talk] bad language

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 2 10:00:20 PST 2006


Old apocryphal Vietnam era story, now legally superceded but still good: demonstrator comes to a rally with a sign reading "Fuck The War." Cop says, "You can't bring that sign into a public place, you have to remove the obscenity." Demonstrator goes away, comes back in a bit with a sign altered to read: "Fuck The _____."

In that era there was S.Ct case holding that "Fuck the War" (on a shirt) was not obscene because it did not appeal to the prurient interest, part of the Miller standard for obscenity, roughly meaning that the effect or intent was to produce sexual arousal.

I hate to seem naive but what is an Alaska Pipeline or a Felch? And I thought I knew my perversions.

Can't recall whether I reported Virginia Hill's explanation before the Kefauver Committee of her role as a mob courier, won't repeat it if I did, but if not I should tell it.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> [links to searches at FCC site in original]
>
> <http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/01/fcc.html>
>
> JANUARY 13, 2006
> The FCC's Website: Alaska Pipelines and Rim Jobs
>
> Smutty Friday continues.
> The FCC publishes words and phrases on its website
> which it doesn't
> allow to be published on the airwaves of the radio
> and TV stations
> which it regulates. Inspired by this article, I
> decided to find out
> for myself exactly how the FCC titillates and
> panders to the masses,
> while forbidding broadcast outlets from doing the
> same. I was shocked
> (and appalled) by what I found. While the FCC has
> fined radio
> stations as much as $25,000 for uttering phrases as
> harmless as "Sit
> On My Face," while it has fined CBS TV stations
> millions of dollars
> for a quarter-second glimpse of nipple, its own
> website is a virtual
> den of filth, perversion and dangerous, bizarre
> sexual practices.
> Here then are the results from the search engine
> found on the FCC's website:
>
> Beaver - 800 Tits - 101 Shit - 51
> Fuck - 43 Alaska Pipeline - 21 ? Boner - 15
> Fisting - 14 Cunt - 14 Boobs - 7 Rim Job
> - 7
> Abe Lincoln - 7 Blow Job - 6 Mother Fucker
> - 5
> Golden Shower - 3 Camel Toe - 2 Cocksucker
> - 2
> Happy Meal - 2 Wanker - 2 Felch - 1
> Twat - 1
>
> Posted by Station Manager Ken on January 13, 2006 at
> 12:45 PM in FCC,
> Government, Radio, Sex, Station Manager Ken's Posts
> | Permalink
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