Posted on 10/05/2005 12:23:07 PM PDT by raccoonradio
MEDWAY (MA) – For parents of elementary school students here, a slogan for a nearby business stinks.
A Medway man's septic-system service boasts about his work with the words ``(Expletive) happens'' on trucks.
``It's not something I'd want my granddaughter to see,'' said Beverly Rechle, the grandmother of a McGovern Elementary School student.
But they do see it all day long as the trucks pull in and out across from the entrance to the school.
``I don't think it's a good thing for my son to read,'' said Debbie Lawton, mom to a first-grader. ``If he saw it, I'm sure he'd say, `How come I can't say that word, but the truck can?' ''
The school's principal, Wendy Rocha, said the foul language on the trucks had not been brought to her attention until now.
The owner of the business, Paul Trufant, said he's not cleaning up his potty talk, as one parent called it.
``This is America, not Iraq . . . it's freedom of speech,'' Trufant said ``There are so many pedophiles out there, why aren't (parents) more worried about pedophiles?''
You could say, criticism happens.
Well if it were the Blue Oyster from the Police Academy movies...
I agree if the parents use the language the kids will pick it up. I do not have children and I am not planning to, but I do watch what I say in the presence of other people's kids.
I'm in agreement!! I wouldn't want my kids reading it either.
LOL
Geesh youre easy!
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They're human tape recorders. If you don't want it repeated, don't say it in their hearing. A lot of parents don't understand that concept. I guess we're conservatives because we tend to think more. :)
and I've heard of radiator repair places that say "WE'RE THE BEST PLACE TO TAKE A LEAK" on their trucks.
I share your opinion. What's appropriate or funny in one venue doesn't make it appropriate in public. I for one am so tired of the enshrinement of Junior High locker room humor. It seems every movie has to have a toilet scene, every comedian has to have his or her dirty routine displayed in places like awards ceremonies, every celebrity has to toss in a profanity or two in interviews to be cool. I get tired of seeing profanity everywhere on bumper stickers, shirts, tattoos, signs. It seems there is no longer any sense of decorum. Sorry but profanity and crudeness in inappropriate venues is not nearly as funny as a lot of people think it is. It's a sign of arrested development.
That kind of humor has its place but not on company trucks or other public places. I side with the parents' POV although I wouldn't try to use the government to change it. I would use economic pressure.
Best Concert ever. Halloween Night 1989 Overkill, Motorhead (Lemmy is God), and Slayer.
Yea I kept thinkin something wasn't right about that place.
OOPS that was supposed to be 1988.
>> They're human tape recorders. If you don't want it repeated, don't say it in their hearing.
My brother told me that when my nephew (who is now 24) was very young, he said, "Daddy, you're a a--hole". And my
sister in law looked at my brother and said, "Well! Where'd he get _that_ (language) from?" :)
Yeah I was a metalhead when I was 8...my parents were just thrilled about that!
Wow...I would have loved to have seen that! I was only 12 in '89 though!! I watched/listened to the Monsters of Rock tour in '88 from my friend's front porch across the street from the Rubber Bowl in Akron, OH because my mom wouldn't let me go!
I was at Monsters of Rock in the Meadowlands.
To this day, if I hear that song they always played when there was a "Blue Oyster" scene I think of gay guys in leather dancing with cops...
Awesome!
Akron, OH June 23, 1988. Watched from my friend's porch who lived maybe 800 feet away from the stadium. Well we really couldn't see but we listened. It was nearly 100 degrees that afternoon.
Oh, do not EVEN get me started.
I have a promiscuous friend named Heidi Salami . . . and an accountant named A. Nicholas Fivepennies . . . and a stoner chick who lives down the road from me is Lydia Bestpot . . .
(I use names like that on patrons at the Festival. Part of interacting is giving the patron an identity and seeing if he plays along - if he does, great!)
I have a granddaughter that repeats everything said right after you say it. She's 21 months and has been doing this for the last 6 months. She walked early and spoke early. What's funny now, soon won't be. I was holding her recently and the guys wouldn't come to dinner so I told D-i-L "We'll eat and they can kiss my butt" and granddaughter yells "KISS MY BUTT!". Grandma doesn't swear but WILL have to watch phrases. ;)
ROFL!!! How about the slut, Sharon Dicks? Or the unfortunate Dick Short?? Or the proctologist Seymour Butts?
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