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Stuart Carlson

Editorial cartoon

GoComics

February 08, 2016

https://www.gocomics.com/stuartcarlson/2016/02/08

Stuart Carlson

cartoon

Gocomics

February 12, 2016

http://www.gocomics.com/stuartcarlson/2016/02/12

Jim Morin

cartoon

Miami Herald

30 June 2004

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/editorial/cartoons/

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/wickham/2004-07-19-wickham_x.htm

It has been taboo

for more than 500 years.

But from fcuk

to Four Weddings and a Funeral,

the f-word has become so commonplace

it now seems acceptable

in everyday conversation.

Is it no longer obscene?

And if it isn't, what is?

Jonathan Margolis investigates

EXPLETIVE DELETED

The Guardian Europe    G2        pp.2-3        21 November 2002.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/21/
britishidentity.features11

insult        USA

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=7Jg0wnPpNrw - video - 8 February 2016

insult        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/may/16/
why-insults-are-political-issue

insult        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/
us/politics/trump-vulgarity-

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/
1224500142/biden-trump-loser-insult

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/
upshot/trump-complete-insult-list.html

https://www.gocomics.com/kal/2020/09/16

crude insult        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/
us/politics/trump-vulgarity-pennsylvania-rally.html

vulgar insult        USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsD6nzOsCNw - 9 February 2016

vulgarity        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/
us/politics/trump-vulgarity-pennsylvania-rally.html

insulting N        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/
nyregion/columbia-university-deans-resign-text-messages-antisemitism.html

disparage        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/
nyregion/columbia-university-deans-resign-text-messages-antisemitism.html

slur        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/05/
1197956148/its-been-a-minute-
dei-mayor-slur-dartmouth-basketball-union

shout vulgarities at N        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/
1094619387/johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial

coarse language        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/
1094619387/johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial

USA > verbal abuse        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/
san-francisco-bus-driver-assaulted-mask-rule

bad words        USA

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/
why-do-educated-people-use-bad-words/

sucker        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/
909599762/trump-faces-fallout-from-report-he-calls-military-losers-and-suckers

the F-word

Daily Mirror    23 November 2004

the four-letter word        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/05/
broadcasting.tvandradio1 

the F-word        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/06/
feminism-debate-with-annie-lennox

the F-word        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/
1217720371/elon-musk-advertisers-threat-survival-x-backlash-twitter

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/29/
559880406/is-the-f-word-ever-ok-in-the-classroom

f**k  /  f***        UK

fucker

fucking

the c-word

cunt

fucking cunts        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/04/
realitytv.broadcasting 

for fuck's sake

John is doing all the fucking work

Shirley talks too fucking much

Shirley is fucking beautiful

I don't give a fuck

abso-fucking-lutely

in-fucking-credible

un-fucking-believable

fuck the fucking fuckers

go fuck yourself

fuck you        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/30/
cee-lo-green-interview

fuck me

fuck-up

motherfucker        USA

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=dTh-1hto9wU - 29 April 2011

Michael fucking Jagger

shut the fuck up

shut your gob

Margaret bloody Thatcher

"That fucking arsehole Archer.

He's a right wanker. (...)

Tosser.

Who the fuck does he think he is?"

Am I fuck

fuck

fuck a duck

fuck off

I couldn't give a fuck

What the fuck you talk about

Nobody gives a fuck about you

Don't you fuckin' worry what ...

sometimes you get fucking low

fuckin' beautiful

absolutely fucking ridiculous

fuck all

you've got fuck-all

fuck face

Brian Duffy

The Des Moines Register

Iowa

Cagle

22 April 2009

expletive        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/30/
cee-lo-green-interview

expletive        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/26/
491494853/listen-maines-governor-unleashes-obscenities-on-lawmaker-who-criticized-him

religious expletives

hurl expletives at N

filthy language

foul language

offensive language        US

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/25/
425971171/3-things-to-know-about-nprs-policy-regarding-offensive-language

derogatory

spaz        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/apr/11/
golf.tigerwoods 

dirty joke

obscenities        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/26/
491494853/listen-maines-governor-unleashes-obscenities-on-lawmaker-who-criticized-him

profanity        USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/
1094619387/johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/08/01/
539640926/stretch-and-bobbito-the-legends-return-to-radio

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/23/
495200112/witness-video-emerges-from-scene-of-charlotte-police-shooting-of-keith-scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPF0X5Sqto - 15 February 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTh-1hto9wU - 29 April 2011

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/
why-do-educated-people-use-bad-words/

yell profanities at N        USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/
1193883689/in-video-
rep-ronny-jackson-yells-profanities-at-texas-trooper-is-put-on-ground

use a profanity        USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPF0X5Sqto - 15 February 2016

get profane        USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFMDoPtCT3E - 5 February 2016

swear

swearing        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2010/apr/14/
swearing-guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/05/
broadcasting.britishidentityandsociety

swearing / cursing        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/19/
807435310/centuries-old-law-against-cursing-in-public-repealed-by-virginia-legislators

swear at N

curse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsD6nzOsCNw - 9 February 2016

asshole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glxh9ZgP7kc - 15 November 2015

fucking asshole

eggplant

tosser

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/tosser

wanker

jerk

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jerk

goon

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goon

coon    (racist)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coon 

eejit    (irl)

flaming eejit

ass (US) / butt (US) / can (US) / arse (UK)

cocksucker        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/26/
491494853/listen-maines-governor-unleashes-obscenities-
on-lawmaker-who-criticized-him 

dick

dickhead

suck my dick

kiss my ass

old fart

nick

piss off

a pain in the ass

bastard

bugger

sod

Brexit front pages - in pictures

Newspapers from around the world

react to the European Union referendum result

and David Cameron’s resignation

G

Saturday 25 June 2016    10.43 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2016/jun/25/
brexit-front-pages-in-pictures

shit

be full of shit

shitbag

shithead

bullshit

bullshitter

piece of shit

do the hard shit        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2016/jun/25/
brexit-front-pages-in-pictures

bitch

son of a bitch        USA

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/28/
476016486/boehner-says-
hes-never-worked-with-a-more-miserable-son-of-a-bitch-than-cruz 

whore

slut

thot

spastic    (very offensive)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/

racist rants        USA

https://www.gocomics.com/robrogers/2023/03/07

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profanities, vulgarities, insults,

swear words, F-word, verbal abuse

No Swearing

in South Pasadena This Week

March 6, 2008

Filed at 11:32 a.m. ET

The New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 

SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- What the @$%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

So if you're headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don't even think about flipping her the bird.

Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

''That's one of the purposes of this,'' Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city's proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. ''It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.''

The proclamation will be in effect until Friday, and then the first week of every March hereafter.

South Pasadena, a tranquil city of tree-shaded cottages at the base of a mountain range eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, isn't the first to try to rein in potty mouths. Earlier this year, the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Mo., proposed banning swearing in bars. Last year, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called for an industrywide ban on racially and sexually charged epithets.

But what's different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can't say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.

''My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,'' said McKay Hatch, the founder of South Pasadena High School's No Cussing Club, during a recent break between study hall and tennis practice.

''I've cussed before, I'm not gonna lie to you,'' Hatch quickly added. ''But I try not to cuss any more.''

He was in junior high school when he became fed up with all the blue language around him.

He understood why his friends use foul language: ''They just want to fit in like everybody else and they don't know how. They figure if they cuss maybe it's an easy way to do that.''

But it wasn't for him.

''I finally told my friends, `I don't cuss.' And I said, `If you want to hang out with me, you don't cuss.'''

It took a couple of years, but enough friends finally came around that Hatch formed a 50-member club, handed out fliers and called the group's first meeting, held June 1.

Nine months later, the No Cussing Club has a Web site, claims 10,000 members and boasts chapters in several states and countries. Hatch considers his greatest achievement, though, to be getting his hometown of 25,000 to become a cuss-free zone.

He hopes to encourage cuss-free zones in other cities to improve the quality of life.

''You have to start with the little things,'' he said.

------

On the Net:

http://www.nocussing.com

No Swearing in South Pasadena This Week,
NYT,
6.3.2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/
aponline/us/AP-Cuss-Free-Zone.html - broken link

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