Trying to Hold Down Blue Language on a Red-Letter Day

[groovedaddy]

CITRONELLE, Ala. — It’s shaping up to be a darn nice Valentine’s Day here in Mobile County.

An optimistic band of middle school students hopes that for just one day no one in the county will curse. Perhaps people can substitute “sugar” or “snap.” Or even the powerful “Oh, pickles!”

The Mobile County Commission, acting on a request from students who have formed no-cursing clubs at Lott and Semmes Middle Schools, has declared a daylong ban Monday on bad words.

Commissioners also gave Lott Middle School students $5,000, which will finance an assembly featuring McKay Hatch, a California teenager who founded a nationwide No Cussing Club in 2007 as a way to get an entire expletive-loving nation to stop using profanity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/education/13swearing.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

[damntexdem]

1. We need more blue language ...

and less red language in the media. ;-)