[Industrialblog,
June 2, 2005]
Now this isn't exactly a family blog
Paul is outraged by what a bunch of w***n the blogosphere has become:
It may have been going on in the blogosphere for some time, but it's only in the past few months that I've been noticing the practice of using asterisks in four-letter words, instead of spelling the word out. You know, instead of writing "shit," you write "sh*t." Or "sh**." Or "sh***," or "s***."
To which I say, bullshit!
I shall respond in haiku.
Readers: You may swear
if you dare, both here and there
In the blogosphere.
It may have been going on in the blogosphere for some time, but it's only in the past few months that I've been noticing the practice of using asterisks in four-letter words, instead of spelling the word out. You know, instead of writing "shit," you write "sh*t." Or "sh**." Or "sh***," or "s***."
To which I say, bullshit!
I shall respond in haiku.
Readers: You may swear
if you dare, both here and there
In the blogosphere.
Though I have to say that I would respect people who used the comic book style "!@#$". At least that has style.
On the other hand, I think that people who pretend that they're in kindergarten and say things like "the f-word" or "the s-word" or the "n-word" are beyond the pale. Someone should just spank them and send them off to bed without dinner.