Who Cares What %#$&ing Words Ozzie Uses?
My words are weapons, i use them to crush my opponents
These words are weapons, i never show no emotion
My words are weapons, i use them to kill whoevers steppin to me, my words are like weaponry on a record.
-D12
The great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth around Chicago this weekend was about Ozzie Guillen's profane blowup on the Mike North radio show Friday morning. It seems that countless columnists, pundits and bloggers couldn't get over the fact that someone who worked in professional athletics and was taught English by John Kruk could possibly have profanity issues.
There are some people, like my father, who don't swear. In fact, I've know the man almost 47 years and I can remember three occasions where he f-bombed. Once, my brother left a note for my mom on the kitchen table saying how he was "pissed off" about something. My dad edited the note, crossing off "pissed off" and replacing it with "angered." It's been a source of amusement in my family for years and whenever any of is is going to say "pissed off" we replace it with "angered" and a wink.
While some people bristle at course language, others throw f-bombs around like candy on Halloween. My step daughter would make sailors blush, yet in her generation, that's the norm. I often have a bunch of kids who sound like merchant marines down in my basement. In my day, we used those words, but never within earshot of adults. Through movies and music, kids today are so desensitized to curse words, it makes no difference to them. They view it as just words. The problem has gotten so out of hand that schools actually issue tickets ($109 in Waukesha) for kids who swear in class.
When you stop and think about it, if you angered me and I told you to "go fornicate yourself" is that as bad as the f-word? For some reason, no. Fark has added the word "asshat" to the lexicon, replacing its anal equivalent. Mork from Ork brought us "shazbat" and the rappers came up with "shizzle" so we could express out fecal feelings.
What I've always wanted to know was who decided that these words were bad? Why these words and not "copulate" or "dung" or "rectum"? I would love to know who the committee was and what criteria they used. In fact, the rest of us are banned from using these words in polite company or on federally regulated airwaves simply because our parents told us they were bad words. Because their parents did. And their parents did. Where did this all start? And are we at a point where we stopped caring about ancient, undocumented taboos long enough to throw open the door and use them with reckless abandon? Apparently, our children are much braver than we were. Or maybe we were braver than out parents and it rubbed off on our kids.
I can tell you from experience, the crudest place to work (besides a dock) is a radio station. Radio stations are rife with profanity, so much so you have to remind people in a hallway that there are live microphones on the other side of the glass and to put a lid on it.
Demanding Ozzie's ouster for the language he chooses to use is a useless exercise. While some words that used as nouns may offend people (see Imus comma Don), words known as swear words are just colorful expressions and mean nothing.
Asking a baseball manager not to swear is like asking Rosie O'Donell to ease up at the all you can eat buffet.
My dad used to remind me that the words you used were a reflection of who you are. Ozzie Guillen is a baseball manager.
Lightning Round
These words are weapons, i never show no emotion
My words are weapons, i use them to kill whoevers steppin to me, my words are like weaponry on a record.
-D12
The great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth around Chicago this weekend was about Ozzie Guillen's profane blowup on the Mike North radio show Friday morning. It seems that countless columnists, pundits and bloggers couldn't get over the fact that someone who worked in professional athletics and was taught English by John Kruk could possibly have profanity issues.
There are some people, like my father, who don't swear. In fact, I've know the man almost 47 years and I can remember three occasions where he f-bombed. Once, my brother left a note for my mom on the kitchen table saying how he was "pissed off" about something. My dad edited the note, crossing off "pissed off" and replacing it with "angered." It's been a source of amusement in my family for years and whenever any of is is going to say "pissed off" we replace it with "angered" and a wink.
While some people bristle at course language, others throw f-bombs around like candy on Halloween. My step daughter would make sailors blush, yet in her generation, that's the norm. I often have a bunch of kids who sound like merchant marines down in my basement. In my day, we used those words, but never within earshot of adults. Through movies and music, kids today are so desensitized to curse words, it makes no difference to them. They view it as just words. The problem has gotten so out of hand that schools actually issue tickets ($109 in Waukesha) for kids who swear in class.
When you stop and think about it, if you angered me and I told you to "go fornicate yourself" is that as bad as the f-word? For some reason, no. Fark has added the word "asshat" to the lexicon, replacing its anal equivalent. Mork from Ork brought us "shazbat" and the rappers came up with "shizzle" so we could express out fecal feelings.
What I've always wanted to know was who decided that these words were bad? Why these words and not "copulate" or "dung" or "rectum"? I would love to know who the committee was and what criteria they used. In fact, the rest of us are banned from using these words in polite company or on federally regulated airwaves simply because our parents told us they were bad words. Because their parents did. And their parents did. Where did this all start? And are we at a point where we stopped caring about ancient, undocumented taboos long enough to throw open the door and use them with reckless abandon? Apparently, our children are much braver than we were. Or maybe we were braver than out parents and it rubbed off on our kids.
I can tell you from experience, the crudest place to work (besides a dock) is a radio station. Radio stations are rife with profanity, so much so you have to remind people in a hallway that there are live microphones on the other side of the glass and to put a lid on it.
Demanding Ozzie's ouster for the language he chooses to use is a useless exercise. While some words that used as nouns may offend people (see Imus comma Don), words known as swear words are just colorful expressions and mean nothing.
Asking a baseball manager not to swear is like asking Rosie O'Donell to ease up at the all you can eat buffet.
My dad used to remind me that the words you used were a reflection of who you are. Ozzie Guillen is a baseball manager.
Lightning Round
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