| Shit Happens. | | Date Created: Oct 05, 2004, 08:37 PM |
 What we all knew and expected came through this morning... I must admit I didn't expect the DEI appeal, so we'll see what that process will generate. My gut feeling? We'll stay in second for now and make up those points in the final seven races...
I'm not a fan of the attempts to sanitize the sport, but (sigh) he did say it, and penalty or not, it only adds motivation to overcome the gaffe... NBC is the absolute worst at trying to control and choreograph the victory lame - heh heh Freudian slip there - fun, but the more I think about it, other than appealing for a seven-second delay, it's not correct to point blame in their direction. Junior's an adult: he said it, he apologized and we move on. Again, it's a sad that a great drive to the win is overshadowed by this...
From George Carlin's famous dialogue about the Seven Words (sanitized for your "protection")
"There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993... to seven. They must reeeeeeally be bad. They'd have to be OUTRAGEOUS, to be separated from a group that large. All of you words over here... you seven. (like a parent scolding a four year old or a puppy) BAD WORDS!.... That's what they told us they were, remember?
"That's a bad word"
"Awwww."
There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.
(Carlin lists the seven.) Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.
(One of the seven is tits) "Tits" doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname.
"Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots. Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots."
It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, NEW Nabisco Tits! The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits, Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off. But I mean that word does not belong on the list.
Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list. Those are... those are heavyweight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with.
I think the word "f*ck" is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word 'f*ck,' for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with.
"Okay Sheriff, we're gonna f*ck ya now... But we're gonna f*ck ya slow."
There are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.
But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones you giggled at in sixth grade?
"And the cock crowed three times."
(giggling school boy) "Hey, the cock crowed three times. It's in the bible."
There are some two-way words, like it's okay for Kirk Gowdy to say "Roberto Clemente has two balls on him."
But he can't say, "I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them, by God."
And the other two-way word that goes with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no."
George Carlin. from "The Little David Years. 1971-1977" |
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