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01-24-2016, 03:43 AM
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When did the FCC legalize "dick" for network TV?
I have noticed that the word "dick" has entered the lexicon of words that are allowed to say on network TV. The newest episode of Mom had Christy call Harry Hamlin's character "a dick" meaning a jerk, but I have also heard it as a sexual term.
These are the George Carlin seven dirty words you cannot say on TV, Warning, "dirty words"! http://www.erenkrantz.com/Humor/SevenDirtyWords.shtml Why hasn't any of the network broadcasters sue to be able to say the s-word or the f-word on television? Seems to go against the First Amendment. I want to buy the TV series without the |
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01-24-2016, 11:58 AM
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I have noticed they beep out F**** and other words but they say G*** D**** all the time. In my opinion NOTHING is more offensive than GD.
Just another reason we don't watch the new trash on TV. |
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01-24-2016, 12:20 PM
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Ahh. The good old days when Dick was a man's name!! Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patton, Dick York, Dick Sargeant ,Dick Cavett!!!!
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01-24-2016, 12:30 PM
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01-26-2016, 02:22 PM
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01-26-2016, 02:54 PM
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01-26-2016, 04:48 PM
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Yeah! I'm tellin ya'! There were a bunch of Dick's back than!!!!!   
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01-26-2016, 05:07 PM
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01-26-2016, 05:17 PM
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Yep!!! We had a neighbor named Dick when I was a kid, also a family friend named Dick!!!! 
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01-29-2016, 01:34 AM
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I don't think it was ever illegal per say. I think that standards of what is and is not offensive have simply changed. I think that is really all that changed.
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