Tuesday, April 20, 2004

"Tits" is Off the List!

Stuart Benjamin of the Volokh Conspiracy reports that the house has passed new legislation that, among other things, codifies Eight Profane Words. The Unholy Eight are identical with George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" except that "tits" has been replaced by two versions of "ass hole" (with and without the space). The ironic thing is that this new push for decency seems to have been inspired by Ms. Janet Jackson baring her ... *ahem* ... well, you know...

Curiously, since "piss" is still on the list, that evidently means that the King James Bible cannot be safely quoted on the air, at least as far as some of the historical books are concerned:
"So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall." (1 Samuel 25:22; see also 1 Sam 25:34; 1 Kings 14:10; 16:11; 21:21 and 2 Kings 9:8)

And "goddammit" isn't mentioned so I guess that is still OK?

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