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Forbidden words in radio *&$%@!

Dr. Daliah

Dr. Daliah

I know the 7 Golden Ones from watching the Private Parts movie, but what about the ones that push the envelope a little...are they OK to use?

For example, the term "Dumbass" would have been perfect to describe the doctor who operated on the wrong eye of a 4 year old this week, and sometimes "SmartAss" needs to be used when a listener tries to trip me up by asking me to recite the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

So in summary, if I'm on air and pissed off about some smartass giving me crap about a dumbass...what am I allowed to say?
 
Of course you can say ----ass, but any and all alternative, creative terms you can think of to say the same
will make the point better than the direct way.

Whether intentional or a put-on,
There is a fine movie somewhere in which Duke Ellington is playing, hits the wrong note on the piano.
He continues as if nothing has happened, and as the piece develops, the tune begins to dance around and focus on,
but never touch, that note, and it becomes clear that he is pointing to that "bad" note.
Eventually, as a perfect jazz musician, he twists the piece into something where that note is needed, and finally, at the very end, as completion of the piece, with a satisfied sigh, he pauses and very deliberately hits that note.
 
Uh, oh....tonight I need to discuss the study that was just released regarding how cursing helps alleviate pain. Hope my listeners don't request specific examples.
 
With what's been occurring in the medical field, no one would blame you doctor for speaking your mind. In fact, its preferable.
 
Stern's movie = bad. It led me to change my major from Political Science (with aspirations of running for Congress) to pursuing radio. Of course, with the anti-incumbent mood of the country, I'd wind up unemployed either way. :)
 
Smedge....

That was just plain damn funny.

May I add:

Experience
Loyalty
Respect
Development
Renewal
Acknowledgement
Service, and

Future...

J-D

Jon-David Wells
The Wells Report
NewsTalk 660 KSKY
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
 
George Carlin said it best: "On TV you can say "ass" but only in the right context, you can say "Oh, you are such an ass", but you can't say "I got to get me some ass!"

Don't say Booger, it got Dr. Johnny Fever fired.


Or "Semprini"
 
Incidentally, the seven words George Carlin proved (through the Pacifica vs. FCC case) that you can never say on the air? You CAN say them on the air, IF the callsign of your station begins with a C (as in, licensed to a city in Canada and transmitting from a Canadian site). They have a different set of taboo words in Canada; racial slurs, ethnic slurs, religious insults, and sexist comments. Those will get your license revoked by the CRTC if you make a habit of them.

Carlin's heavy seven? Not that big an issue north of the border. Mind you, the powers that be would prefer that you limit them to post-sunset hours if you can, but that's more a commercial consideration than a regulatory one.
 
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