Re: OT: George Carlin's 7 Words

chromolume wrote:
On Jun 24, 3:17 pm, Vince <vpilu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey what happened to PRICK?

the answer from Carlin himself:

But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words.
Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the *** crowed
three times.''Hey, the *** crowed three times. It's in the bible.'
There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say
'Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he
hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He
must have hurt them, by God.' And the other two-way word that goes
with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes,
you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no."

(The entire transcript of the routine is at http://www.segall.net/bill/carlin.html)

I was surprised to discover that the Leslie Howard "Romeo & Juliet" (1936) didn't censor:

Nurse. God ye good morrow, gentlemen.

Mercutio. God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.

Nurse. Is it good den?

Merctio. ’Tis no less, I tell you; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.

--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"
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