05-25-2010, 04:14 PM
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Re: The Decency Police Think "$#*!" Is Indecent
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Originally Posted by PatsSB42
I watched a movie about Lenny Bruce many years ago. It chronicled the many times he was arrested for the indecent speech he used in his routines. I remember one scene of him on stage during a comeback performance where he talked about it. There were many police in the aisles waiting for him to slip up but he "behaved" by circumventing the language. One example was when he asked the date of a guy in the audience if she ever "blahed his blah" and then pointed out that that was one of the dirtiest things he could say but could say it anyway.....but because of the laws he couldn't say the "f" word if he hit his thumb with a hammer for example. Point taken but at the same time a line needs to be drawn someplace, doesn't it? It is on this message board, no? And words are symbols are they not? So if the symbols communicate the thought for the word then the symbols are fair game aren’t they? Can you write and say anything you want in any forum you want whenever you want to?
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Good point about Lenny Bruce. It reminds me of writers circumventing the Hayes code with double entendre. I love the noirs with dialogue full of sexual innuendo.
That said, there's nowhere to draw the line since safe words refer to the exact same things that the dirty words do, only with subtler shades of meaning. Depicted parents can say doody all they want, but if a character says "I've got to take a sh1t" it's verboten. Replace with "I've got to take a doody" and it's probably allowed. Writers and producers are literally in a place where they're bargaining with censors on which words can be kept and which ones can't - writers add a couple of "4ssholes" so they have greater bargaining power for the "b1tch" they really want to keep. It's asinine.
Last edited by apple strudel; 05-25-2010 at 04:15 PM..
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