[Budge]

I'm struck by this: Another broadcasting expert, Robert J. Thompson of Syracuse University, said the proposal was "just so infantile, so juvenile,'' especially because Ose's bill spells out the words it says should be banned.

"It reminds me of a bunch of 8-year-olds looking those words up in the dictionary and laughing uproariously,'' he said.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic, but the only reason to bar this is protect the ears of children. But if everything on TV or radio has to be OK for the age of 6, then nothing can be more sophisticated than that,...

I guess Thompson never heard or saw Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, Abbot and Costello and a host of others on radio or TV, and he's considered an expert!

When I first got into broadcasting many years ago, a radio station lost it's licsence for broadcasting the sound of a toilet being flushed!

[Sacajaweau]

I read your comments just as I was thinking about the disappointment I experienced when I looked up the word bast*** and bitc*. It caused such confusion in my mind as to "how do I use these properly", I switched to "jerk" as an all inclusive word. Of course, there was also the fact that I would have been grounded for a year if my father ever heard me say those dictionary words.