Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 2002/04

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] obscenity
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 01:25:59 -0500

Lets not even mention 'oiling your keys', 'putting grease on your
tenon', 'pulling out your middle joint'.

If all objectionables were displayed publicly would they become so
commonplace that they would no longer be objectionable but rather
ignored? Philosophers arise!!

GaryT

jim & joyce wrote:
>
> All this talk about obscenity and what jumps out in the next
> post by CBA is "TONEHOLE" and I think, that's a new one on
> me. And then I see that the the discussion is about
> fingering. Oh my! Somebody should put something in the
> headers to warn us.
>
> Maturity is minding one's own manners and not other folk's.
>
> I work at the FCC, of seven dirty word fame. I don't work
> on that side of the house and don't know the rules.
> However, around 1980, Pacifica asked the FCC if it would be
> OK to air a reading that contained several choice phrases.
> I don't recall the specifics, but one's that Pacifica's
> chose then then coincide with my 16 yo son's current
> lexicon. Somehow we discovered that the exerpts had been
> sliced from Finnigan's Wake, which in fact the Supreme Court
> had already ruled was not obscene. So, we were spared the
> embarassment of contradicting our betters. Instead, we said
> that we wouldn't censor anything but rather, if there was a
> complaint, we would then determine if the rules had been
> broken.
>
> Unfortunately, we spent the rest of the 1980s making Howard
> Stern rich and famous.
>
> Some fights you can't win and cause more harm than good.
>
> jim lande
>
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