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F-bombs and bare breasts could be coming to network TV.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments in a case that could rewrite the rule book for Fox, ABC and other broadcast stations now prohibited from pushing nudity and profanity on the public airwaves.
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Sunday night's receipt from Shaw's Supermarket states that I purchased groceries at 7:29 p.m. Before, during and after my shopping, I could hear the Bangor waterfront concert noise. I am in favor of the concerts, as they bring business to Bangor.
Because of what I heard as I was placing my groceries in my vehicle, I feel compelled to write. It wasn't clear whether it was My Darkest Days or Sick Puppies, but a man was speaking in between songs. He was using profane language and continued to swear, but also described different sexual positions and various sexual experiences. He then stated that he could not begin the next song until they saw 10 sets of breasts, although he used a different word.
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"Nobody is suggesting that there's a connection between Adam Mansbach's book and child abuse or child neglect," writes journa...
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He who yells loudest gets results. Or so it seems after profanity-laced radio rants by Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. last weekend at Richmond led to changes with both teams.
Busch said a restructuring has taken place at Penske Racing, while Truex has a new pit crew heading into tonight's Southern 500 at Darlington.
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PROVO -- Teens who encounter profanity in the TV shows they watch and the video games they play are more likely to swear themselves. And that's a known risk factor for aggression, both physical and in relationships, according to a BYU study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The study found a "direct link," wrote the researchers, who had 223 sixth-, seventh- and eight-grade students from a Midwest middle school fill out a survey about the shows they love, how much time they spend watching TV, the video games they play, aggression and how they feel about profanity, as well as whether it peppers their own speech.
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It's a barnyard profanity you can hear in a lot of places, from theaters playing PG-13 movies to sports arenas where the crowd has disagreed with an official's call.
On Thursday, Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal used the word during an interview with The Topeka Capital-Journal and other news organizations. Furthermore, he challenged reporters to print it, ostensibly to underscore his outrage at an accusation that had been lodged against him by legislative Democrats.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. | Jets coach Rex Ryan has been fined $75,000 by the NFL for using profanity while angrily responding to a fan at halftime of New York's Nov. 13 game against New England.
Ryan said Monday he will not appeal the fine.
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Profanity, according to Webster's fat, 3,200-page dictionary, is an utterance of profane language.
Those who had the misfortune of sitting through the first half of the staged reading of an alleged new comedy, "A Shot in the Dark," got more than a serious overload of profanity for no obvious reason - - surely not comedy.
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
-- Spencer W. Kimball, former president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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It wasn't just the cussing.
Before reviving a lawsuit against Shell Oil Co., an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel took a detailed look at the discovery problems that led to a federal judge dismissing it after a profanity- laced excoriation of the plaintiffs.