I wonder if this would work in Fort Oglethorpe? Proabably not, but it would be cool to try.
No #&@% cussing! Calif. town a profanity-free zone
By JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
Published on: 03/07/08
South Pasadena, Calif. — What the $%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.
So if you’re headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don’t even think about flipping her the bird.
NICK UT/AP
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McKay Hatch, 14, the founder of the 50-member South Pasadena High School’s No Cussing Club, jokes with his father, Brent Hatch, at his father’s restaurant Wednesday in South Pasadena, Calif.
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Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.
“That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of the proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week, passed by the City Council. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.”
The proclamation will be in effect for the first week of every March.
South Pasadena isn’t the first to try to rein in potty mouths. What’s different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can’t say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.
“My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,” said McKay Hatch, who founded South Pasadena High School’s No Cussing Club in June.
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