It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad. They really, in themselves, have no power.
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We give them this power by refusing to be free and easy with them. It's a notion that they have and it's superstitious. You'll see some newspapers print "f blank blank k". It's just impossible to say "this is a blanket rule". Where you really cannot pin down what these rules they want to enforce are. On these other things, we get into the field of hypocrisy. I don't know that there was a "Eureka!" moment or anything like that. One track on the album, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", was a monologue in which he identified these words and expressed amazement that they could not be used regardless of context.
In 1972, comedian George Carlin released his fourth stand-up album Class Clown. Pacifica Foundationĭuring a performance in 1966, comedian Lenny Bruce said he had been arrested for saying nine words: " ass", "balls", " cocksucker", "cunt", " fuck", "motherfucker", "piss", " shit", and "tits".
A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words