Posts Tagged ‘Cussing’

Cuss-O-Meter

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Blog-O-Cuss Meter - Do you cuss a lot in your blog or website?

Well, it’s always something new. I wonder if I started speaking like I do in my non-cyber life and how it would go.

Of course I also got an R-rating last year so I have that going for me as well as being banned in China, an honor I share with several Tennessee bloggers.

Who knew?

Town Bans Cussing

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

What next? We going to ban flatulence?

What the $%*&*? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

So if you’re headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don’t even think about flipping her the bird.

Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

“That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city’s proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.

Here’s the rest of the story on CNN.

I have to tell you, I’d have to move.