Breaking the profanity barrier
Posted on:: February 8th, 2005
At the conference I’m at, the shit barrier was broken at 1:30. That’s the moment the word “shit” was first used by one of the speakers.
I have only recently begun to collect data on this phenomenon, and look forward to producing many attractive line graphs.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
Then, shouldn’t this have been the first of your posts that you “shit”-tagged ?
I have a theory, notice that as soon as you used the word “shit” in your post, Jon immediatly called back another “shit”. And by the end of this sentence, I will have said “shit” three times. So then, here is my forumla… shit I forgot my high school algebra. Oh well, that last “shit” proved my forumla wrong. Regardless, I’m guessing that there will be some sort of exponential increase.
Well, shit, I just had to Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=shit
First result is rather amusing:
http://www.internetisshit.org/index.html
I have started noticing this phenomenon in meetings at work as well. I was particlarly proud of myself for saying “fucked up” twice on a conference call yesterday. ;-)
Is it Shit?
Step One: Google "shit"
Step Two: Read whatever website google ranks as first.
Step Three: Tell me
Monkey Pornography
Stumbled across this fantastic weblog: Philosophy of Biology. The fact that I am not very familiar with biology (as a body of knowledge) makes this find all the better. Anyhow, the reader