TTP | A Hit in Spite of the Bombs
The F-Word -
September 1st, 2010
It's a tiny package of verbal dynamite made from four simple letters that, depending when used, can be quite explosive and/or polarizing. Whether used in exclamation, celebration, excoriation, or just to spice up the lingo during fornication, the F-word's multiple uses ensure that most of us hear it daily in one form or another.
One of the newest places to hear the f-bomb is in Cee-Lo Green's recently penned hit song, cleverly titled "F&%# You!" In spite of zero radio play the song has gone viral, like crabs in a Fort Lauderdale Days Inn.
Is this a big deal? Not really, swearing has long been used in song, film, and television. Cee-Lo's use of the word is good-natured, cathartic crooning by the song's protagonist. Still not down? No big deal. Cee-Lo has two words for you.
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Times the F-bomb is dropped in the 1990 gangster film, Goodfellas. That roughly equates to twice per minute. Nearly half of the time the word is used, it comes from Joe Pesci's character, Tommy DeVito. Pesci went on to win the Academy Award for the role. |
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
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Marshall Lumsden, magazine editor
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noun. 1. A word or expression that is generally perceived as harsh, impolite, or offensive. 2. Eiffel Towering Rosie O'Donnell
The Who's 1978 hit "Who Are You" twice included the line, "who the f*ck are you?" US pop radio deleted the word completely. 31 years later the Britney Spears' Top 2o hit "If U Seek Amy" is edited for radio to be "If U See Amy," despite the fact that there is no actual F-bomb in the song. Both songs of course pale in comparison to Clarence Carter's classic, "Strokin'."
Famous F*cks
| After Greek ambassador Alexandros Matsas objects to the US plans in Cyprus in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson tells him, "F*ck your parliament and your constitution." Then uses some analogy about an elephant trunk swatting them. Guessing his couscous got pissed in that week. |
| Monday Night Football halftime anchor Chris Berman unleashes an unholy tirade on incompetent workers on the set in 2000. He went all the way. |
| In 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer tells Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, "Listen, I'm a f*cking steamroller, and I'll roll over you and anybody else." Approximately a year later this steam roller blows a rod after it is discovered his rod was blown by a prostitute. |
| Fox 5 News Anchor, Ernie Anastos, tells the weatherman on live television in 2009 to "keep f*cking that chicken," and then gets creepier by making comments on a fellow female anchor working out. |
| Kid drops F-bomb on Jeopardy's Teen Tournament after blowing a gimme on what actress played Queen Amidala in the Star Wars films. What a f*ckin' idiot. |
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Etymology can be fascinating. Learn the history of one of the worst (err, greatest) words in the English language. It's fukee nawsum. |
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