I always feel a bit disappointed when somebody drops the “F bomb” over the public airwaves. The use of foul language is not necessary in 99 percent of conversations, and the other one percent is questionable.
So our second in charge Mr. Biden let fly the wretched colorful metaphor (nods to Star Trek) during an appearance with President Obama, and it hasn’t been the first time. The word is obviously firmly entrenched in his vocabulary somewhere in the gap between his foot and mouth.
What ever happened to the scandal associated with Rhett Butler’s not giving a damn in Gone With the Wind? What became of sentences in general, without the added baggage of excess obscene filler? With all the communication devices around this world today, can’t we speak in full sentences without adding a shocking punch to the sensibilities?
I think we should each try a one-day ban on using such language. Some of us will fail within seconds (right now somebody might be reading and saying, “#@&, I couldn’t go for one #$&! second without saying —-!” and they lasted less than one second).
If JFK, Martin Luther King and Mae West could all speak fluently in public without using a naughty word, so can our public figures, and so can we.
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