Watch Your $#$#@@! Language
The California city of South Pasadena has put the foul of mouth on notice. No more bad language in public.
SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. — 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.
Well, if it applied to many nutroots blog comment sections, they would disappear altogether. (Remember our comment policy here at the Crabitat if you leave a comment!)
By feeblemind, Friday, 7 March , 2008 @ 9:19 am
I wonder if spitting on the sidewalk is still allowed?
By TKelso, Friday, 7 March , 2008 @ 10:39 am
"South Pass", as it’s referred to by locals, is pretty uptight; at least within the context of Southern California (which only means that the frown on blanking in public). Nonetheless, I’m blankety-blank stunned that any political body in blankety Calif would even entertain such a proclamation. It’s nothing short of, blankety-blank amazing. Blank. I’m sure the blankety So Cal ACLU (led by Ramona Ripsten who IMHO is milky in the filbert) will be seeking and injunction by the end of the day.When the big quake sinks So Cal into the sea, maybe South Pass will be the only part that floats.
By martian, Saturday, 8 March , 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Well, $(*& me! I’ll be a (*&*&*#$^^$*&! Who the $(*& do they think they are telling the rest of us what the $(*& we can or can’t &%%$% say? Don’t they know this is a free $(*&*#^ country?
By Bleepless, Saturday, 8 March , 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Is an obscene gesture really language? It imparts a message, true enough, but still. . . .
By the way, how long before ACLU bankrupts the town with a lawsuit?