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Blog Guy, I’m curious about an upcoming fall CBS television show. You know the one I mean?
No, and I don’t give a dollar pound asterisk exclamation, either.
So you DO know the one I’m talking about! “$#*! My Dad Says,” on CBS.
Hey pal, you can’t say $#*! in my blog! The Parents Television Council has called on advertisers to boycott the series, saying this type of language should not be accepted as lighthearted fun. I guess they think kids might learn punctuation marks sooner than they should.
But Blog Guy, surely the $#*! is meant precisely to substitute for the four-letter s-word, which you can’t use on broadcast television. So they’re saying these symbols are as bad as the word they replace?
Maybe they’re right. Our own story on the controversy did go out online with a warning about the “strong language in title.”
And what was the title?
It was just “Media watchdog urges advertisers to boycott $#*! TV show.”
Yikes! Who stars in the program, by the way?
I believe it’s veteran actor William $#a!ner.
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Actor William Shatner talks about his show ‘$#*! My Dad Says’ during the CBS, Showtime and the CW Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 28, 2010. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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I don’t think my Father’s conversations with us would make this show. A typical 4:00 a.m. summer conversation would be something like this: “After you carton the eggs (5000 every morning) and feed the stock, hoe the corn fields on the home place. Then, get all the sour dock out of the apple orchard. Pile it and burn it. Your uncle Elder says that’s the only way to get rid of it. Then shovel a hopper box full of beans so that we can sell them tomorrow if the price is good. Then….”
Lol!! Sh*t and Sha*… teeheehee…. loubing it!
Thank you, Spin and Shra…
W#% D%e$^’! #@!e !#*$?
Doc, is sour dock like rotten apples?
Come on now, Mama. #@!e is such a strong word.
If you think so, then you can just %^&&} yourself….
Sour dock is a weed full of oxalic acid. It’s bad for horses and livestock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curled_Dock
Dad once sent us out with clippers to cut, one by one, every sour dock in the apple orchard, which covered 11 acres. We had to cut so as not to disturb the seeds and pile the weeds up and burn them. Dad thought we would have it done in an afternoon, but it took a week of hot August afternoons. We kids all agreed at the time that it was Uncle Elder’s idea of a joke, but which Dad took seriously. Dad was a lot bigger on German Work Ethic than he was on humor.
I think my brothers and I all played (American)football just so that we could escape to two-a-day practices in August before school started.
Doc, that brings back memories. There’s nothing like growing up in the Midwest with a daily dose of the German Work Ethic every day of your childhood.
After several years of marriage, my wife said to me, “The big difference between you and me is, if you won the lottery you’d still show up for work the next day.”
Mr.B., considering you work from home while still in your jammies wouldn’t be a bit difficult not to show up?
@Doc… so you rounded up *weeds* from an 11 acre property and *burned* them. Hmmmm….
Funny. I follow him on Twitter, and few of his posts are suitable for network television. They are funny though.
Doc… there you go again, teaching!!!
I love the stories though… so, would let you go this time around…..
Is it any wonder that I ws so mean to my “city” cousins when they would come out for a visit?
I once showed one of my cousins (2 years younger than I) the “secret passage” in the barn. The secret passage was a quick way to get behind the barn. When my Dad and my Uncle came out to the barn, my cousin showed them the “secret passage.”
My Dad snickered, while my Uncle said, quite irately, “He has him crawling out the manure hole!”
Hey, Blog Guy, you look like a Swiss!
As I am new here, I only read the small print after my comment didn’t show up, sorry, I didn’t put a comment that “… advances the story directly or with relevant ….”. I only posted $#*!. I wrote that I thought the blog guy looked like a βλοοδψ Swiss in his picture. This comment doesn’t either.
@ifly: but Doc didn’t inhale while burning the weeds, or while at the secret passage! Oh, the fresh country air.
Houdini, those rules are for the other blogs. On this one, try not to make comments that enlighten or educate anyone, and you’ll be fine. Of course, that Swiss comment about me was below the belt.
Houdini? Is that you, Cousin Al? (of “secret passage” fame)
I couldn’t tell you, Spin. I’ve never read them.
# means a pound in the US? Really?
Yes. You need to know that before you come here, because automated phone answering systems at businesses will constantly tell you to press the pound sign…. Oh get away, Shra!
Doc, that “secret passage” story was awesome!
Well Mr. B. you did mention Shra needed to use the taser more. How nice of you to lead by example.
# means “number” and “pounds” in the US
It all depends on whether the symbol comes before or after the digit.
BG… I wasnt gonna tase you, coz I was still laughing on that manure hole story of Doc’s…
Ah well, back to work then…. zappp!!
Thanks Doc! I now have a new insult.
As in, ‘Shut your manure-hole’, or ‘Go talk to the manure-hole’, or ‘You know, you really are just a gaping manure-hole’.
Well Mr. B, there you go breaking your own rules and educating someone.
I agree with Everyone who likes your final line above.
Doc, are you sure you’re not from GA. That sounds like something my granddaddy would have had my Mom and her siblings do when they were young.