YOU'RE A DIRTY FRIM-FRACKING-FRINGA.....
A combination of religious zealots and right-wing conservatives have been pressuring the United States Senate to do something about the vulgarity on our airwaves. It doesn’t take much to pressure Senators – a five dollar bill waved in front of them usually works. The proposed legislation is supposed to sharply increase the penalty for obscenity on the air. As a lover of the TV series “Deadwood”, on HBO, which has made “c**ck sucker” into an art form, I want the feds to butt out. By raising the fines that would be levied against broadcasters to about $500,000 per crudity broadcast, and by threatening to revoke the licenses of repeat offender, the Senate seeks to return the gentler tenor of yesteryear in radio and television. Obviously Howard Stern wouldn’t make it through one of his shows without going bankrupt. It would also mean that any stand-up comic working on television would have to become a mime.
These conservative stick-in-the-muds have forgotten that no one holds a 457-Magnum to a listener’s head to make them tune into one of these obnoxious jocks. If they don’t like what they hear, turn off the station. If the Senate really wants to get after slimy, disreputable people how about looking into Televangelists who promise their audiences salvation if they only send in their life’s savings to the faker standing behind the pulpit? Talk about shameless crude and disgusting men and women….give me George Carlin any day than the very Reverend Billy-Bob Blowhard….who preys on the less fortunate.
Cursing and swearing is a human universal. Every language, dialect ever studied, living or dead, spoken by millions or by a small tribe, turns out to have its share of forbidden speech. Even the Good Book abounds in naughty passages like the men in II Kings 18:27 who, as the comparatively tame King James translation puts it, “eat their own dung and drink their own piss.” This passage was followed by, “take my wife pray thee.” During the Last Supper the bible claims that Judas constantly farted, was a cheap prick that never left a tip. It seems people have always cursed even back to mankind’s earliest writings, which date from 5,000 years ago, include their share of off-color descriptions of the human form and its ever-colorful functions. “If you want a good time call Yetta the wolf-girl on her cellular rock.”
Yet as much as bad language can deliver a jolt, it can help wash away stress and anger. “Studies show that if you’re with a group of close friends, the more relaxed you are, the more you swear,” Dr. Kate Burridge, a professor of linguistics said. “It’s a way of saying: “I’m so comfortable here I can let down my hair (apparently Sampson was fooled by this) and I can say whatever I like.” Dirty talk can even be traced to the Garden of Eden when Eve offered Adam the apple. “Screw the apple bitch I want some nookey.”
Evidence also suggests that cursing can be an effective means of venting aggression and forestalling physical violence. Chimpanzees often engaged in what appears to be a kind of cursing match as a means of venting aggression and avoiding a potentially dangerous physical clash. Of course, it helps if you understand monkeyeese. “A chimp who is really gearing up for a fight doesn’t waste time with gestures or grunts, but goes ahead and attacks,” Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior in Atlanta. The only known exception to this was observed in my first wife “Cheetah” who insisted that a well placed banana shoved into an orifice quickly settled any dispute between us.
What do all these studies prove? That crude talk by some publicity seeking hairy radio jock isn’t important or serious enough to warrant the Senate interfering in our right of free speech. Howard Stern or Chris Rock can’t say anything more shocking than the lies coming from Washington. We can turn them off but sadly can’t do the same with incompetent politicians.
These conservative stick-in-the-muds have forgotten that no one holds a 457-Magnum to a listener’s head to make them tune into one of these obnoxious jocks. If they don’t like what they hear, turn off the station. If the Senate really wants to get after slimy, disreputable people how about looking into Televangelists who promise their audiences salvation if they only send in their life’s savings to the faker standing behind the pulpit? Talk about shameless crude and disgusting men and women….give me George Carlin any day than the very Reverend Billy-Bob Blowhard….who preys on the less fortunate.
Cursing and swearing is a human universal. Every language, dialect ever studied, living or dead, spoken by millions or by a small tribe, turns out to have its share of forbidden speech. Even the Good Book abounds in naughty passages like the men in II Kings 18:27 who, as the comparatively tame King James translation puts it, “eat their own dung and drink their own piss.” This passage was followed by, “take my wife pray thee.” During the Last Supper the bible claims that Judas constantly farted, was a cheap prick that never left a tip. It seems people have always cursed even back to mankind’s earliest writings, which date from 5,000 years ago, include their share of off-color descriptions of the human form and its ever-colorful functions. “If you want a good time call Yetta the wolf-girl on her cellular rock.”
Yet as much as bad language can deliver a jolt, it can help wash away stress and anger. “Studies show that if you’re with a group of close friends, the more relaxed you are, the more you swear,” Dr. Kate Burridge, a professor of linguistics said. “It’s a way of saying: “I’m so comfortable here I can let down my hair (apparently Sampson was fooled by this) and I can say whatever I like.” Dirty talk can even be traced to the Garden of Eden when Eve offered Adam the apple. “Screw the apple bitch I want some nookey.”
Evidence also suggests that cursing can be an effective means of venting aggression and forestalling physical violence. Chimpanzees often engaged in what appears to be a kind of cursing match as a means of venting aggression and avoiding a potentially dangerous physical clash. Of course, it helps if you understand monkeyeese. “A chimp who is really gearing up for a fight doesn’t waste time with gestures or grunts, but goes ahead and attacks,” Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior in Atlanta. The only known exception to this was observed in my first wife “Cheetah” who insisted that a well placed banana shoved into an orifice quickly settled any dispute between us.
What do all these studies prove? That crude talk by some publicity seeking hairy radio jock isn’t important or serious enough to warrant the Senate interfering in our right of free speech. Howard Stern or Chris Rock can’t say anything more shocking than the lies coming from Washington. We can turn them off but sadly can’t do the same with incompetent politicians.
posted by THE RANTING OLD GEEZER at 7:17 PM
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