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Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

I still think it works best as an insult, rather than as the name of a body part.

darkhorse_NZ · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Location: South Korea

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

Yeah, I know some more. They popped into mind when 'axewound' came up a while ago, and I resisted the urge to share. I will continue to do so, except for the relatively benign

slitch

Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

Bump.

Big_Bird · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

Yes, I have to say that c*nt sounds very mild and sweet compared to things like:

slit
gash
beef curtains
etc.

There are much worse things than c*nt, it seems.

peppermint · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject:

Big_Bird · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

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Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

The "C" word? Oh, you must mean ... CARLIN ... Wink

Q&A: At 70, George Carlin collects "Stuff"
By Chris M. Walsh
Fri Sep 21, 7:45 PM ET

NEW YORK (Billboard) - The irascible George Carlin -- voted, through a Comedy Central poll of network executives and industry veterans, the second-best stand-up comedian of all time behind Richard Pryor --
turned 70 on May 12.

To mark his 50 years in entertainment, MPI Home Video is releasing a 14-DVD career retrospective boxed set, "George Carlin: All My Stuff," September 25.

Never one to rest on his laurels, Carlin does 80 shows a year and is in the process of preparing an hour's worth of new material for his next HBO comedy special, which will air live in March 2008. Billboard caught up with him during a break from his current stint in Las Vegas.

Q: What's driving you to do 80 dates a year after 50 years in the business?

A: "It's what I do, and there's two things going. One, I'm an entertainer and two, I'm an artist. And the artist never really finishes his job -- the writer is never finished. Some of it goes to the books, some of it goes to the shows, and the shows become HBO concerts."

Q: A review of your Billboard chart history reveals that comedians today don't chart as consistently as you did throughout your career, especially your work in the '70s.

A: "People used to say albums were hot, then they were cold, then they were hot for comedians. There's just too much going on in the popular culture for that to work -- too many things competing for people's attention."

Q: What can fans expect from the boxed set?

A: "It goes from 1977, the first HBO show I did, through the most recent in 2005. There are 12 pure stand-up shows in the boxed set, and they represent the evolution of a particular comedy. I go from being very tentative in 1977, to the 1992 show, which was my favorite because that's when my comedy voice changed. Right around 1990, 1992 the writer took over and the pieces became more thoughtful and more extended and more like essays."

Q: Is that what you mean when you say "the writer not just looking for a laugh" and delving into heavier subjects?

A: "I discovered around that time that there was something I could do with an audience that didn't involve getting a laugh every 20 to 30 seconds, and that was to engage their imaginations and hold their attention with ideas and language. There are really three things going on in my comedy now: One is the humor, the jokes; second is the ideas, and points of views and attitude; and thirdly, the way it's couched -- I hope in colorful language. And by that I don't mean foul language necessarily -- that's included, too -- but I mean language that's interesting to listen to."

Q: Any thoughts on what's going on in the political world right now?

A: "I've never done topical humor. I've never cared for it. I like writing for the long span. So I talk about things that seem timely, but are actually sort of timeless: race, religion, big business, consumerism, ignorance of the average American, false patriotism. I just watch the current political (process) like a sport. It is a blood sport to the ones involved, and it's great, great theater. And now they're changing all the rules in the primaries ... so the rules are shifting on the run."

Q: Is there any wisdom that comes with turning 70 that you could share?

A: "I don't notice numbers of years as much as I notice periods of life. It's very interesting to have lived through the golden age of radio, the golden age of television, the golden age of movies, the golden age of American popular standard music. It's fun to live life."

Reuters/Billboard

Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

Is the filter fixed yet? Will the word go through without any "dodging"?

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:28 am Post subject:

Czarjorge · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:30 am Post subject:

I'm too lazy and hungover to read all the posts, but I'm going to make my comment nonetheless. If someone else said this, good on ya, you're in good company, me.

I was totally out of the loop when the "c-word" became offensive in the US. One day in college I dropped it at the bar and it felt like one of those 'the entire room screeches to a halt' moment. This was in uber-"liberal" Iowa City where thought police swarm, but I was shocked. It may have been that I was out with my butch lesbian friend, who used the word constantly, and her friend felt my having a *beep* made me unqualified.

But where's the logic there? Ladies are allowed to use words referring to my genitalia, but the reciprocal is disallowed? Clearly in the land of Eng this isn't the case due to meaning inherent in use of the word, but in the US the double standard is prouldly borne.

waltjocketty · Joined: 09 Oct 2006

po jee ma nee jo ah yo.