perfidy

It occurred to me, reading Johno's recent post on the New Puritanism, that we have options.

We could:

• Use the Agreed Alternative Cursing Standard (AACS), where fork=fuck, spoon=shit and dog=god. Along with defending any use of "dick" as someone's name, and "ass" as referring to a donkey, this method covers the vast majority of American English cursing.
• Use the Johnny Dangerously System, where farging=fucking, ice=ass, and bastiches=bastards/bitches. And you can always throw in jokes about last names being adverbs.
• Or we can tell the FCC to fuck off, go to hell, and realize that most of the cretins in this soceity are not going to stop dropping the f-bomb every third word just because they levy thousands of dollars in fines on Janet Jackson and Howard Stern, or that we won't realize what is going on behind the filmy curtain of the "bleep."