http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tv_profanity_1

What do you think about this? Is TV getting to be too much?

There has been a corresponding jump in profanity on my local playground as well. Coincidence? Cause and effect? Who knows.

What I do know is that, unfortunately, Americans really don't know how to swear. We think swearing is dropping a profane word in every other position. My father, an English teacher, once told me as a young lad that if I'm going to swear, I should at least be creative and not show that I possessed a vocabulary limited to four-letter words.

Now, Australians, they're some people who really know how to swear. Among my favorites from an old friend, who grew up down under, which he busted out when I wanted to leave a bar before closing, "you concave-chested, water-drinkin', purse-carrying nancy boy."

I closed the bar that night.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if Hollywood writers started to earn their money and started writing creative cusses, without profanity.

How do you think the increase in profanity and mature content will impact the children of this generation, if at all?

TV is not what's caused the increased profanity in children. It's more likely to be music and that sort of thing. Eruopean television has much more liberal rules about these thigns and they aren't necessarily dropping the f-bomb every other word. Maybe they are trying to get attention b/c their content sucks. Perhaps kids swear b/c they can. I know I got a bar of soap when I did. I remember the first time I used the f-word. I was very young and I didn't even know what it meant but by the look on my parent's faces and the taste of soap, I didn't use it again until I was well into my teens and then only with my friends.