Archive for the 'Everyone Wants The Honey But Not The Sting' Category
Changing The Offending Line To “You Scumbag, You Maggot, Dirty Like Bob Saget” Would Have Worked But Unfortunately Kirsty MacColl Has Passed On
Posted by Contrarian on December 18th, 2007
The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” bowdlerized: BBC Radio 1 has said it will stand by its ban on the word “faggot” from the Pogues’ 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence. The word, sung by the late Kirsty MacColl as she trades insults with Shane MacGowan, has been dubbed out. But [...]
And If You’re Keeping Score At Home, That’s Not One But Two “C” Words
Posted by Contrarian on December 6th, 2007
The most offensive official major league baseball document ever seen: Players were yelling something a whole lot nastier than “You’re blind, ump!” at baseball games in the 1890s. And it’s all there in writing, on a withered 1898 document called “Special Instructions to Players” that’s up for bid by a New Jersey auction house. “In [...]
If anyone will be mightily smote by the big bearded one above, it will surely be Christopher Hitchens: And so we have a semiofficial celebration of Hanukkah, complete with menorah, to celebrate not the ignition of a light but the imposition of theocratic darkness. . . . [T]he Hasmonean regime that resulted from the Maccabean [...]
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