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onegrapeshy

Banned Balls

Feb 16, 2007 11:10

It's not only dirty words that can get your novel banned from school libraries. Apparently even technical terms for certain body parts are also a no-no. Words like: scrotum. Actually a pretty funny word when you think about it, right? Let's all say it together: "Scrotum, scrotum...sca-ROH-HO-HO-tuum ( Read more... )

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ex_fashioni February 16 2007, 16:57:34 UTC

Oh for the love of...

GAH.

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 17:02:59 UTC

My sentiments exactly.

jbknowles February 16 2007, 17:12:39 UTC

It's insanity!

(If you want some good laughs, go check out the comments on my entry today. Heh)

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 18:50:51 UTC

Oh, how hysterical! In fact, I added a poem of my own. :)

ophelialaughs February 16 2007, 17:12:52 UTC

"Scrotum, scrotum...sca-ROH-HO-HO-tuum...!" I know! They're probably worried about not being able to say it with a straight face. For a substitutable word, I nominate "filberts."

My kid has known what a scrotum is since she was about three or four. See, I didn't know I was supposed to be traumatized, so when she asked I just told her.

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 18:52:11 UTC

"You are such a scrotum!" used to be a familiar insult at work.

ophelialaughs February 17 2007, 14:37:51 UTC

Now I'm remembering the Tim Allen routine where he compares the apparatus to elbow skin and then says something like, "There's not a woman alive who hasn't been frightened by the sight of her husband, naked and bent over the bathtub."

ophelialaughs February 17 2007, 15:13:08 UTC

LOL!!! God, what a visual.

edenzdream February 16 2007, 17:25:25 UTC

LOL, no scrotums from this author...ah, I say, "Who needs em!" ( not scrotums -- librarians ) jk of course....

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 18:53:34 UTC

Yeah, the old bags! (pun intended)

hareatic February 16 2007, 18:24:18 UTC

Hahahaha! Ok not a funny situation but the way you wrote out scrotum..hahaha. I can appreciate the situation these school librarians find themselves in though. So many parents get irate if they think youve exposed their precious darlings to something evil...like any mention of those parts between the waist and the upper legs :)

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 18:54:31 UTC

Does that mean they leave the bazooms alone??

sookie06 February 16 2007, 19:50:35 UTC

I am sorry to say this, but news like these tend to travel all the way over here: books being banned by librarians or schools or maybe even states (didn't that happen to Harry Potter?) in the US. I have never heard about it happening in any other Western country. What gives?

onegrapeshy February 16 2007, 19:56:07 UTC

Who knows? Too many tight-asses in power, I guess.

Personally, I'd be honored. What great company I'd be in!

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