Saturday, March 04, 2006
Offensiveness of Language
THE OFFENSIVENESS OF LANGUAGE
I am not scared by “bad” words. I use them when I write if I feel the dialogue calls from them and I will go off road with friends if I think the emphasis is necessary or it will make them laugh. But mostly I try to reserve the power of certain types of words as to not lose the effect.
Richard Pryor on his first trip to the Tonight Show couch was asked by Carson, ”Do your friends call your Richard or Dick and Pryor said, “Usually they just call me Skinny Nigger!”
Do you have any idea how funny that was in the pre hip-hop days? Pryor just laid it down and it was hilarious.
Back around 1963 a Philly guy I knew named Joe Turk was telling a room filled with Catholic woman a series of jokes, all clean and all funny. The women were all members of the same Ladies Holy Sodality parish group. We were about to go out and the woman asked Joe for one more joke.
He said, “Well, I know another one but it has a bad word in it and may not be appropriate for me to tell here.”
It’s o.k Joe. We’re all married woman and I’m sure it’s nothing we haven’t heard before.”…one can only guess what that means..
“O.K., Joes starts out, “there this big fat hairy cocksucker walking down the street.” I laughed and mostly the women sat stunned. The joke was the joke, the set up it was perfect, Joe was a genius.
One year at the high school where I was a teacher I broke up a weak ass fight in another teacher’s room. Everything was cool until Juan showed up to defend his brother Eduardo.. Now we had the hot Latin thing going on. I stood in the doorway and wouldn’t let Juan through. He kept pushing on me.
A girl named Amy, who was a light skinned Indian with freckles said to Juan, ”Juan you need to stop. Can’t you see Fredman’s just trying to help you.”
Juan turned and said, ”Shut the fuck up you light skinned freckle faced puppet!”
Amy jumped out in center hall and both feet slammed to the floor .She pointed to her crotch with both hands.”Hey why don’t you come right over here and eat my pussy you frog eyed Coon!”
I love language and I thought this low down “bow wow row” was entertaining and funny.
Later when the kids were sent to the office the principal asked me to write it up on a discipline referral form.
“I’m not writing that up, ”I told him. “Someday I will copyright it.”
Peace Freddogg
I am not scared by “bad” words. I use them when I write if I feel the dialogue calls from them and I will go off road with friends if I think the emphasis is necessary or it will make them laugh. But mostly I try to reserve the power of certain types of words as to not lose the effect.
Richard Pryor on his first trip to the Tonight Show couch was asked by Carson, ”Do your friends call your Richard or Dick and Pryor said, “Usually they just call me Skinny Nigger!”
Do you have any idea how funny that was in the pre hip-hop days? Pryor just laid it down and it was hilarious.
Back around 1963 a Philly guy I knew named Joe Turk was telling a room filled with Catholic woman a series of jokes, all clean and all funny. The women were all members of the same Ladies Holy Sodality parish group. We were about to go out and the woman asked Joe for one more joke.
He said, “Well, I know another one but it has a bad word in it and may not be appropriate for me to tell here.”
It’s o.k Joe. We’re all married woman and I’m sure it’s nothing we haven’t heard before.”…one can only guess what that means..
“O.K., Joes starts out, “there this big fat hairy cocksucker walking down the street.” I laughed and mostly the women sat stunned. The joke was the joke, the set up it was perfect, Joe was a genius.
One year at the high school where I was a teacher I broke up a weak ass fight in another teacher’s room. Everything was cool until Juan showed up to defend his brother Eduardo.. Now we had the hot Latin thing going on. I stood in the doorway and wouldn’t let Juan through. He kept pushing on me.
A girl named Amy, who was a light skinned Indian with freckles said to Juan, ”Juan you need to stop. Can’t you see Fredman’s just trying to help you.”
Juan turned and said, ”Shut the fuck up you light skinned freckle faced puppet!”
Amy jumped out in center hall and both feet slammed to the floor .She pointed to her crotch with both hands.”Hey why don’t you come right over here and eat my pussy you frog eyed Coon!”
I love language and I thought this low down “bow wow row” was entertaining and funny.
Later when the kids were sent to the office the principal asked me to write it up on a discipline referral form.
“I’m not writing that up, ”I told him. “Someday I will copyright it.”
Peace Freddogg
